The Sherlock Holmes-based medical drama Watson debuted on the 2025 TV schedule again in January and was in style sufficient to be renewed for a second season that may air someday in 2026. Nonetheless, The CW’s Sherlock & Daughter has additionally been a quiet success, changing into the channel’s #1 scripted drama on linear and rating #4 on HBO Max’s high 10. Whereas there’s no phrase but on if Sherlock & Daughter Season 2 will occur, Brendan Foley, the present’s creator, already has an fascinating concept for if the present comes again. Moreover, he shared his opinion on why adapting the lore of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famed literary detective is usually a “double-edged sword.”
What Sherlock & Daughter’s Creator Has In Thoughts For Season 2
Sherlock & Daughter is likely one of the exhibits competing on the Monte-Carlo Tv Pageant’s Golden Nymph Awards within the fiction class. Foley is attending the large occasion with different expertise from the sequence, together with author Shelly Goldstein and actress Blu Hunt, who performs Amelia Rojas, the titular Daughter. Whereas taking a while to talk with Selection, the creator had this to say about what he and the opposite writers want to do in Season 2:
I feel we’d wish to take it worldwide. On the finish of the nineteenth century, society is shifting from criminals robbing banks to criminals proudly owning banks. Crime is blissfully worldwide. I’d wish to see what’s occurring within the U.S., Europe, Australia on the identical time. This nice, wonderful British Empire was nonetheless in its heyday, nevertheless it’s a giant world on the market.
I can get behind this. The occasions of Sherlock & Daughter Season 1 have been largely confined to London, which is hardly shocking contemplating that’s the place most Sherlock Holmes tales happen. However increasing to a world scope in Season 2 would definitely increase the stakes for Amelia Rojas and David Thewlis’ Sherlock.
The sequence happen in 1896, so it’d be nice to see them examine a brand new conspiracy that has them touring exterior of England’s capital and be compelled to cope with how crime is altering forward of the twentieth century. It’s one factor to get used to telephones changing into a part of on a regular basis life, as was proven in Season 1. It’s one other to grapple with societal change that results in crime being much more troublesome to fight.
Why Adapting The Sherlock Holmes Tales Is A “Double-Edged Sword”
Whether or not Sherlock & Daughter continues into Season 2 or finally ends up being a one-season affair, Brendan Foley has taken adapting this beloved supply materials fairly significantly. Almost 140 years after A Research in Scarlet was revealed, Sherlock Holmes stays some of the in style fictional characters of all time. With such recognition comes the immense stress of constructing a brand new adaptation stand out, as Foley detailed:
I don’t suppose anybody ought to do it frivolously, as a result of you have got 20,000 completely different variations of Sherlock. There’s all the time a share of the viewers who’d be absolute purists, and a share who haven’t learn a phrase of [Conan Doyle] and is aware of Holmes from his 101 iterations. We’re interesting to fairly a big viewers, together with a really mainstream U.S. viewers who enjoys wrestling.
That final half was a joke, however the level stands. Sherlock & Daughter not solely has to strike a high-quality steadiness between delivering clever writing and being accessible to audiences the world over, but in addition strike a separate steadiness of constructing a brand new Sherlock Holmes that gives one thing new whereas nonetheless honoring Arthur Conan Doyle’s authentic works. That’s loads to juggle, however contemplating how effectively Sherlock & Daughter’s first season was acquired, Brendan Foley and his workforce apparently hit the mark… largely. He added:
A couple of folks will all the time say: ‘Oh, you’ve ruined it.’ It’s all the time a great piece of recommendation to not learn the feedback, however we went from folks saying: ‘I’m positive this will probably be horrible’ to ‘Properly, it wasn’t too dangerous.’ That was a stunning factor, to see that evolution, however you may’t be all issues to all folks.
Sherlock & Daughter concluded its first season solely every week in the past, so it might be some time till we be taught in regards to the present’s destiny. That stated, you’re welcome to view these opening eight episodes both on The CW’s web site or stream them along with your HBO Max subscription.