Wherever you look, there is a story being told about the world’s most famous detective. Whether the events directly tie to the character or focus on a person close to him, someone comes with another angle to explore. The last several years have brought numerous Sherlock Holmes-related stories. Just this year, Prime Video made a TV show, Young Sherlock, exploring the character’s younger years. Meanwhile, CBS aired Watson, focusing on Sherlock’s friend, before the show was canceled earlier this year after two seasons. Netflix has not been left behind, releasing the third film in the Enola Holmes franchise a few weeks ago. The story adds Sherlock’s younger sister Enola (Millie Bobby Brown) to the mix.
And now, Netflix is back with a new murder mystery with a loose connection to Sherlock. This story is not about an offspring, coworker, or relative of the character; it’s about an actor. Meet Basil (Jose Coronado), a retired actor who once played Sherlock Holmes on the big screen. It’s spring of 1959, and Basil is one of the thirteen people stranded on an island near Mallorca during a bad storm. A mystery unfolds in their hotel when an English tourist is found dead. Everyone initially thinks the death is a suicide, but a closer look reveals something disturbing: a murder.
What happens next is a typical murder-mystery plot. No one can leave the island, so the killer is in their midst. No one can come to the island to help either. Who can solve the murder? Despite not being particularly interested in the task, Basil is the one most capable of unearthing the culprit after his turn as the famed on-screen detective. There are many suspects and motivations, with the story becoming increasingly complex. The series is titled The Final Problem, and it premieres on September 25.
Collider Exclusive · James Bond Personality Quiz Which James Bond Actor Are You Most Like? Connery · Moore · Dalton · Brosnan · Lazenby · Craig
Six actors. Six completely different visions of the same man — dangerous, charming, complicated, and almost certainly wearing a very good suit. Only one of them shares your particular way of moving through the world. Eight questions will figure out which Bond you really are.
🏴Connery
😄Moore
🎭Dalton
✨Brosnan
🤵Lazenby
💠Craig
01
How do you carry yourself when you walk into a room? Bond is always the most interesting person in the room. The question is how he makes you feel it.
02
How do you handle a dangerous situation? Every Bond faces it differently. What does your version look like?
03
How do you charm someone you need on your side? Bond always gets what he needs. The method varies considerably.
04
How do you handle your emotions on the job? Every Bond deals with this differently. Most of them not particularly well.
05
How would your colleagues describe your working style? MI6 has opinions about all of its 00s. What are theirs about you?
06
How do you feel about operating within the rules? The licence to kill comes with terms and conditions. Not everyone reads them.
07
What is your relationship with love? Every Bond has a different answer. None of them have found it easy.
08
When the mission is over, how do you want to be remembered? The name is Bond. The rest is entirely up to the man behind it.
The Name Has Been Determined Your Bond Is…
Six actors. One role. Your answers point to the Bond who shares your presence, your method, and your particular way of carrying the weight of being the most dangerous person in the room.
Dr. No — You Only Live Twice · 1962–1967
Sean Connery
You are the original — and you carry that fact without needing to announce it. There is an authority in the way you occupy a room that others spend careers trying to replicate.
You don’t explain yourself, justify yourself, or soften yourself for anyone’s comfort. The confidence is structural, not performed.
Connery’s Bond established everything — the tone, the danger, the cool — because Connery himself had the innate presence to make something that had never existed feel inevitable.
You share that quality: the sense that you were always going to end up exactly here, doing exactly this.
The name is Bond. In your case, it always was.
Live and Let Die — A View to a Kill · 1973–1985
Roger Moore
You understand something that more serious people miss: that wit is its own form of intelligence, and that making people laugh is not a retreat from danger but a way of mastering it.
Moore’s Bond is underrated precisely because the effortlessness looks easy — and effortlessness is the hardest thing to manufacture.
You have the same quality: a lightness that disarms people before they realise how sharp you actually are.
The raised eyebrow, the perfectly timed quip, the refusal to be rattled — these are not affectations. They are a philosophy about how to move through a world that would like to take itself too seriously.
You have never let it.
The Living Daylights · Licence to Kill · 1987–1989
Timothy Dalton
You took the role seriously when everyone wanted you to coast — and that refusal to take the easy version of anything is the most defining thing about you.
Dalton’s Bond has genuine moral weight: he feels the cost of what he does, he has lines he won’t cross, and he is not interested in the version of himself that pretends otherwise.
You share that intensity. You push harder than the situation technically requires, because you have a standard and you hold yourself to it.
He was ahead of his time — the Bond the franchise wasn’t quite ready for yet, arriving exactly when he was meant to.
You know what that feels like.
GoldenEye — Die Another Day · 1995–2002
Pierce Brosnan
You are the complete package — and you know it, which is part of what makes you so effective and occasionally so infuriating to the people around you.
Brosnan arrived at the role looking exactly like Bond was supposed to look, and he delivered on that expectation with a professionalism that made it seem effortless.
You have the same quality: a smooth competence, a charm that operates like a precision instrument, and the ability to make even difficult things look like they weren’t.
His era was the most commercially successful in the franchise’s history. There is a reason for that.
The reason is that some people simply fit their moment perfectly. You are one of those people.
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service · 1969
George Lazenby
You stepped into something enormous with less preparation than anyone around you thought was sufficient — and you delivered something genuine anyway, which is the more impressive achievement.
Lazenby’s single outing is, by many measures, one of the finest Bond films ever made — and he is not a small part of why.
You share his quality of raw authenticity: less polished than the alternatives, more honest for it, capable of something real that technique alone can’t produce.
He was underestimated, and then he wasn’t, and then history caught up with him.
You are the kind of person history catches up with. Give it time.
Casino Royale — No Time to Die · 2006–2021
Daniel Craig
You stripped everything back and found what was underneath — and what was underneath was harder, more honest, and more human than anyone expected.
Craig’s Bond is the franchise’s most psychologically complete: a man doing a brutal job, carrying its costs imperfectly, capable of love and loss in ways that can’t be dismissed.
You share that depth. You don’t hide behind the role or the charm or the suit — you let the work show what it actually costs.
He was controversial from the moment he was announced and definitive by the time he was finished. The sceptics became the believers.
That arc — of being underestimated and then undeniable — is one you know intimately.
Who Is Behind ‘The Final Problem?’
The four-episode mystery thriller weaves a tight narrative from Spanish author Arturo Pérez-Reverte‘s novel of the same name. Alberto Macías, Carlos Molinero, and Marisol Farré wrote the series, and Félix Viscarret directed it. Other cast members include María Valverde (Adela), Martiño Rivas (Foxá), Maribel Verdú (Auslander), Gonzalo de Castro (Fonseca), Cristina Kovani (Vicky), José Condessa (Toni), and Pepón Nieto (Seruya). The Final Problem promises a tense period drama full of secrets, suspense, and twists.
Stream all four episodes when the series hits Netflix next month on Friday, September 25. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.