The Irregulars (Netflix, 2021)
The Baker Street street kids, a supernatural London, and Holmes at the margins.
Holmes always had a gang of children doing his legwork; give them the series and make the cases strange.
You want something dark, young and strange, and Holmes in the corner of the frame is enough.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: the Irregulars, Watson, and Holmes himself, in the background.
Changes: the genre. The crimes are supernatural, and the canon’s rational world is the thing under threat.
Whose story is it?
the Irregulars’, a group of misfits working cases for Watson.
How much time does it ask?
One season of eight episodes, on Netflix.
Thaddea Graham, McKell David and Jojo Macari lead; Clarke Peters, Henry Lloyd-Hughes and Royce Pierreson are among the cast.
Where to find it
More versions: Sherlock Holmes, Granada Television (1984–1994) · Sherlock (BBC, 2010–2017) · Sherlock Holmes (2009) and A Game of Shadows (2011)