Sad Sherlock Theory Reveals All Of Holmes' Cases Were Fake

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Sherlock followed The Great Detective through a variety of cases in modern London, but a theory suggests that all his cases were fake and were created by someone close to him in order to keep him safe. Few literary characters have reached the popularity and success of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, who since his debut in A Study in Scarlet in 1887 has gone through countless adaptations and reimaginings, even holding the world record of the most portrayed literary human character in film and TV history. The complicated status of the rights to the character has allowed many artists to make different adaptations of Sherlock Holmes and his many cases, and among those is the BBC’s Sherlock.

Created by Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat, Sherlock is a TV series that aired from 2010 to 2017 on BBC, with a total of four seasons, one mini-episode, and one special episode. Sherlock brought the Great Detective to modern London, adapting the character, his cases, and the most notable characters from Conan Doyle’s stories to a modern setting. Sherlock was led by Benedict Cumberbatch as the title detective and Martin Freeman as his friend and partner John Watson, who were joined by Gatiss as Sherlock’s brother, Mycroft Holmes, and Andrew Scott as Sherlock’s archenemy Jim Moriarty, making the series one of the most interesting and successful adaptations of the Great Detective in recent years.

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Although Sherlock made many changes to the characters and their cases in order to adapt them to the modern world and give them a unique touch, it stayed true to some of the most important aspects of the character, such as his struggle to socialize and his drug use, though in the novels he