Created by Lauren Tess & Redmond Fitzpatrick
“I have only one rule: when you see me doing nothing, do not speak to me.”
Sure, it’s a little hokey at times, definitely low-budget and cutely amateurish, but Whitlock, writer/actress Lauren Tess’ homemade, grrl-empowered 2014 straight-to-YouTube take on the BBC’s Sherlock (and of course Arthur Conan Doyle’s original creation) is clever and fun, and kinda endearing.
There’s something happening here.
In its brief five-part serial, Los Angeles’s cranky, eccentric twenty-something druggie and consulting detective SOPHIE WHITLOCK is on the hunt, looking for the killer responsible for “the dead man in the wood.”
She’s a jeans-and-a-shirt kinda girl, with a lab full of chemicals, powders and potions in her apartment that she shares with her new roomie, Fawn Watkins, a tube-top and short-shorts-wearing New Ager who’s completely flummoxed by the eccentric Sophie.
Just don’t drink the tea…
TELEVISION
- WHITLOCK: A STUDY IN STARLET | Watch it now!
(January 2014, YouTube)
5 episodes
Created by Lauren Tess
Writers: Lauren Tess, Redmond Fitzpatrick
Directed by Redmond Fitzpatrick
Starring Lauren Tess as SOPHIE WHITLOCK
and Mary Guilliams as Fawn Watkins
Also starring Alexis Jacknow, Franco Barberis, Lindsay Seim, Tyler Bryan, Brittany Powell, Alexis Jacknow, Redmond Fitzpatrick
Respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith.
