History Series / Sherlock

* NeverTrustATrailer: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFR_Z30d5nQ The Korean advert]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN4xBm44KH0&feature=related The second one, too.]]

* HomelessHero: * While they don't have an supernatural powers, the members of Sherlock's homeless network certainly qualify. They provide information about happenings across London that the FBI would envy.

A modern-day version of ''Franchise/SherlockHolmes'' (2010-17, effectively on indefinite hiatus since then), created by Creator/StevenMoffat and Creator/MarkGatiss, produced in ninety-minute format for [[Creator/TheBBC BBC TV]] for three episodes a season.

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* DataDriveMacGuffin: A cell phone instead of a data drive, but same function: in ''[[Recap/SherlockS02E01AScandalInBelgravia A Scandal in Belgravia]]'', high-class prostitute Irene Adler has a huge amount of blackmail material and photographed secret information from millionaires and government officials of all over the world in her cell phone, and she went the extra mile to destroy the original copies of said secrets and [[SelfDestructingSecurity modified her phone so it will explode if anybody tries to hack it or open it without her password]] (a fact she immediately tells Mycroft Holmes when [[SimpleSolutionWontWork he says he could just destroy the phone and remove her leverage]]). Unsurprisingly, spy agencies from all over the world are willing to do anything to get their hands on the phone, with MI-5 (Mycroft) and the CIA being the two most active in the episode.

* EmbarrassingAlibi: Sherlock once got a friend of his out of a triple murder charge by proving he was in a completely different part of town, house-breaking, at the time of the murders.
-->'''Angelo''': But for this man, I'd have gone to prison.\\
'''Sherlock''': You ''did'' go to prison.

* TakeThatAudience: The Empty Hearse fan club in its titular episode isn't portrayed very flatteringly; at best, the characters who make it up-- who are meant to be analogues for the show's real-life audience-- are portrayed as {{Loony Fan}}s and conspiracy theorists, and at worst, they ship Moriarty and Sherlock. Sherlock even indicates he might be messing with Anderson and will never reveal how he actually survived the fall.