Through the many decades since visual media have been around, people have been making adaptations of the Sherlock Holmes ...

The latest reimagining of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes remains a streaming hit a month after its Season 1 finale.

When Sherlock & Daughter arrived on screens in April 2025, a lot of people had doubts about what it could bring to the table.

In the books by Leonard Goldberg, Sherlock Holmes does have a daughter named Joanna with Irene Adler. However, the original work by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is devoid of any such mention.

But this is the most overt reminder that Sherlock Holmes has long been construed via a single lens, that of his partner Dr. John Watson — who, Holmes explains, is away on a long holiday.

Holmes gives audiences an older Sherlock Holmes, played by Sir Ian McKellen. The title detective is 93, retired, and living in Sussex. He struggles to remember details from his last unsolved case ...