The Sherlock Mystery: The Movies And Shows VS The Original Stories

The Setting of Sherlock Then and Now

Sherlock Holmes was written as alive in Doyle’s times. The horse-drawn carriages, old-fashioned clothes and hats were part of Doyle’s London. Sherlock places Holmes in the very alive and modern London of 2012. The characters travel in taxis, wear jeans talk on their iPhones.

As Doyle wrote his Sherlock Holmes stories, he meant for Holmes to be utilizing all modern technology and assistance in solving mysteries, so it works perfectly for the show to be built on modern times, where Sherlock can use NASA, cells, wire taps, and all other kinds of inventions in order to scope out and defeat his foes.