The charm of Sherlock

 I was visiting my girlfriend and like any other monthly visit we tend to do stuff we don't ordinarily do when we're apart try to experience new things together, explore places, go to SPA's, dine at different restaurants, discover some fantastic cuisine that will give joy to our taste buds.

So, one of our discovery bonding dates, I ask her to stay and watch a series, It's called Sherlock. Since we are both fans of the detective and crimes stories like CSI and Dexter, it was worth a try. Since it was a bit cold to go outside... (and i'm a bit lazy to walk around town)

We fumbled with the blanket, tossed the pillows around to find a comfortable spot and ones we're ready. I clicked the play button and for more than an hour (I hardly noticed) we we're taken in an extraordinary ride, a master piece if I may call it and every second was worth the watch.

I haven't read the book, but I'm planning to buy a set, my friend Hannah said that you'll gonna love the series if you read the novel. It was faithfully crafted and converted into modern badass version.



It was an astonishing vision. I'm thinking the same method but using some famous Filipino novel like Florante at Laura or Ibong Adarna but it lacks a captivating narrative or I rather say thick plot but it was worth a shot.



The cast was great, my favorite would be the land lady, Mrs. Hudson. Oh she is so fantastic and bright! If she enters the frame, a smile automatically paints my face. (although some scenes is nail biting and teeth grinding) Played by Una Stubbs, she portrays Ms. Hudson like no other. In and interview I've d read in the Guardian she said that

  "Some people say to me, 'Oh, did they tell you to play Mrs Hudson like that?'" she says. "Well, no, I just came up with it. I was given the script and I got on with it. I just saw her more like a mother figure to these two boys. There's so much nastiness going on [in the series] that maybe to introduce something a little nicer is a good thing."

Here's another funny article, it was done by LA Weekly, she was asked several questions and it was funny and entertaining.

Una Stubbs: I really like Benedict and Martin. They're lovely men. We all get on so well together. But it just started evolving like that. That's how I'm used to being with my three grown-up boys. There's a scene in the very last episode [of this season] where we're in Mrs. Hudson's kitchen, and I said [to Benedict,] "You know what? My boys, when they come round, they go straight to the fridge." So that's how he played the scene.

SI: Speaking of fridges, a memorable bit on Sherlock is when Watson opens their icebox and finds a human head. What are some of the other things that London's most famous consulting detective keeps stored at 38 degrees?

US: Thumbs ... and something that was supposed to look like a heart. That's alongside my milk and things I've put in there. It's just infuriating every time I open it. There's all these disgusting things -- and they really do look disgusting in real life. I think the heart was made out of a huge piece of liver. The thumbs were prosthetic, but very realistic.

SI: Do you, Una Stubbs, cook a lot?

US: I don't cook anymore. Not really. I sometimes do some baking, which I enjoy. I've done the cooking thing. Now I go out.

SI: What kinds of things do you bake?

US: Victoria sponges. Do you have those in Los Angeles? It's a very lightweight, very plain sponge cake. Tea bread. Banana cake. Those sorts of things.

SI: There's a lot of American food in London. What's your favorite?

US: Caesar salad and things like that. I put on weight very quickly, so I watch it a bit. I used to love the hamburgers, but I've cut that out now.

SI: Occasionally -- at Sherlock and Watson's Christmas party, for example -- Mrs. Hudson is put in charge of the food. What's her idea of a proper holiday spread?

US: Probably nothing very stunning. Probably small pizzas. Something where you don't need a plate. I think we call it "finger food."

SI: What do you imagine that Sherlock Holmes likes to eat?

US: I think he doesn't have a good appetite. Which worries me. I try to get him to eat. It's all rubbish food Sherlock eats, that's why he looks so pale. A lot of crisps and probably food that's passed its sell-by date like sausage rolls.

SI: Mrs. Hudson has always been a mysterious character. How did they explain the role to you when you first came in to audition?

US: They didn't. You just were given the script and you read it and then you go home and work up the best way that you feel the character should be and how it would fit in with everybody else. There's no script description, either. That was a new one for me. But that's what I came up with.

SI: Mrs. Hudson is very mothering, but she also draws a line with Sherlock and Watson. She doesn't wait on them hand and foot.

US: In real life, with my three sons, because I brought them up on my own, I was quite a strict mother. Otherwise there would have been, you know, riots. So I used that. You don't want to be a walkover. It's not a very attractive trait, is it?

SI: The story goes that you've known Benedict Cumberbatch since he was little. True?

US: Yes. I worked with his mother [actress Wanda Venthem]. We used to sit chatting in the park and I'd be with my children and she'd be with Benedict. So I knew him as a little boy of about 4. Very polite. A lovely boy.

SI: Did you ever have to remind him that you'd known him since he wore short pants?

US: He'd already been told by his mother. He was very pleased to see me and then we had a laugh about it. He said he remember standing, waiting hour after hour, while his mother and me gossiped and he said he remembers being so BORED. [in a complaining voice] "C'mon, Mother!!"

SI: His looks are so controversial. An entire Tumblr page has been devoted to showing how closely Benedict Cumberbatch resembles an otter. Meanwhile, others call him this year's sex symbol. Thoughts?

US: On the street people say to me, "Hi, Mrs. Hudson!" and then it's, "Can you get his autograph for me?" One girl I met in a restaurant said, "I'm determined to marry him." It's extraordinary. He is a completely original look, don't you think? One minute he's not quite so handsome. Then the next minute he's gorgeous. What is that term? Jolie laide. It's French for ugly-handsome.