‘The Pinnacle Seven’: An Entertaining Climb Up the Peaks of Wishful Thinking : THE FRONT PAGE ONLINE

Conspiracy thrillers typically occupy the sinister, occasionally apocalyptic, spaces of the human mind. Jackie Richards’ self-billed political mystery offers a different kind of scheme, one as quaint as the romance of a workers’ revolution, only more twee: a bourgeois escapist fantasy rooted in a widely-shared frustration with the stalemated two-party system.

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The BBC’s Sherlock: Thrilling But Not Quite Elementary : THE FRONT PAGE ONLINE

The happy news is that Sherlock, produced and co-written by Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat along with fellow Whovian Mark Gatiss, is as good a contemporary presentation of the classic detective as one could expect, if not hope for....

The series deserves accolades for its hip, smart efforts even if, it must be said, Jeremy Brett and Edward Burke remain the definitive Holmes and Watson, and the Granada series that housed them remains the definitive screen adaptation of Doyle’s work.

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