“Let’s put it very simply: Nobody has ever done Sherlock Holmes remotely as well as Benedict Cumberbatch. He’s emerging as one of the great actors of his generation, and barring any misfortune will be a star for years to come, but Sherlock will always be the seminal point at which the journey started. Cumberbatch, pale of face and gaunt of limb, is a possessed by a crazed, frenetic genius that sees him marching through London, rattling off theories and facts in a machine-gun staccato, complete with incredible insights, witty asides and the occasional (and delightful) puzzlement at the behavior of ordinary humans. The phrase “lights up the screen” is a cliche, so let’s say that when the camera finds Cumberbatch, the screen explodes into supernova technicolor. He is absolutely captivating, entertaining and superlatively manic as Holmes, and you get the sense that nothing (even his own death) can keep him down.”

-Sherlock is #2 on Paste magazine’s Best Television Characters of 2013 [x]

This is now the second best of 2013 list Sherlock has been on, after TV Guide’s, despite the fact that Sherlock did not air in 2013. 

(via thecutteralicia)