Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty are great adversaries, but not in Young Sherlock: as the first trailer shows, in the TV series, in addition to being young, they also seem to be friends.
Hero Fiennes Tiffin he plays a very young man Sherlock Holmes in Young Sherlock, TV series taken from the novels of Andrew Lane which delves into the origins of the iconic detective when he was just a student at Oxford University. To make it even more interesting, the new TV series coming soon to streaming on Prime Video it is the relationship with James Moriartyone of his greatest nemeses and who, in this story, would seem to have a different role in his life.
Young Sherlock, is the relationship between Sherlock and Moriarty different?
As the title suggests, in Young Sherlock the protagonist is a very young detective, a student at Oxford University, forced to watch his back following a murder that occurred within the university walls. That murder affects his freedom, so Sherlock decides to roll up his sleeves and investigate what happened. Among the various characters also shown in cousin trailer appears James Moriarty played by Donal Finn. Sherlock fans will know perfectly well that Moriarty is his arch-nemesis, yet in Young Sherlock The dynamics between the two change.
The first trailer, in fact, shows that the two are even amicia major change from other Sherlock adaptations on the big and small screen. Young Sherlocktherefore, will tell how the two met for the first time, but the real twist is the nature of their relationship: not enemies, but friends in Oxford. What happened between them to push them onto completely opposite tracks in the future? Why did they become enemies? Considering this is a prequel, Young Sherlock he was unable to involve John Watson who will come into his life later, but even in this case the aspiring detective would have needed a right-hand man who turned out to be Moriarty himself.
What also makes the prequel even more interesting is the presence of parents of the young Holmes, an interesting passage that will also offer greater context to the dynamics of the Holmes family. To find out more we will have to wait for the debut of the TV series streaming on Prime Video March 2026.
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