Series 1 aired in 2010. Most of us were different people then. And somehow, watching it back now, the show knows that — and has things to say to who we became.
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What Sherlock Series 1 Gets Right About Youth That You Can Only Understand After You've Lost It
March 2010.
If you were seventeen when Series One aired, you are thirty-one now. If you were twenty-five, you are thirty-nine. If you watched it as a child, sneaking episodes after bedtime, you are now old enough to have a child doing the same thing.
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The show has not changed. You have.
This is the particular quality of returning to something that mattered early — the way it holds still while you have moved, and in holding still, reflects back at you not only what it contained but the distance between who received it then and who is receiving it now.
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