A review by strikingthirteen
Bending the Willow: Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes by David Stuart Davies

4.0

Jeremy Brett's performance as Sherlock Holmes for Grenada Television in the 80s and 90s is the definitive performance of the Great Detective. This was the first time strictly the canon was filmed and it has never been replicated since. The later series may have lost their way a little bit, and it is really hard to watch Brett act in these episodes as his health deteriorates, but there is no other Canon Holmes out there to me. This book isn't a biography of Jeremy Brett but it is a book about his process in becoming Sherlock Holmes and how this fabulous, and severely under appreciated in its time, show came to be.