Director Johnny Allan
Starring McKell David, Thaddea Graham, Jojo Macari
Rated MA
Score 3.5/6

Set in Victorian London, the series follows a gang of troubled street teens who are manipulated into solving crimes for the sinister Doctor Watson and his mysterious business partner, the elusive Sherlock Holmes.

Chapter One: An Unkindness in London: As Jessie’s nightmares grow worse, Bea accepts Dr. Whatson’s job offer to investigate four kidnapped babies – and receives some unexpectedly posh help. Chapter Two: The Ghosts of 221B: Broke and in trouble, Bea reluctantly partners with Jessie to find out who’s stealing children’s teeth. Spike spies on Watson and Sherlock Holmes.

Okay, perhaps I should have waited till I actually finished the series instead of being just two episodes into the eight-episode season. It should be noted that the series was inspired The works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and from what I have read about the series it is supposed to take different look on the relationship between Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars.
I’ll admit that I’m probably not in the target demographic for The Irregulars there has been a couple of moments where I have said to myself ‘whoa didn’t see that coming’ I went into this in the frame of mind that The Irregulars might have been something that I watched in the afternoon when I was younger, though come to think of it given its rating it might not have been shown in that programming block. The Irregulars does look like that it will venture into ‘villain of the week’ territory but with eight episodes I don’t see that getting stale and the supernatural explanation given about the villains was interesting. I suppose the reason why I came back for the second episode was the final shot of the episode a storm on the horizon of the cityscape of London though it does come off as being a tad cliched. I really wasn’t that familiar with anybody cast in this and I have found that I am starting to enjoy McKell David’s performance as Spike and Thaddea Graham’s performance as Bea. I kind of enjoyed Bea’s rant at the footman in the first episode. I am also interested in seeing the direction they go with the Watson character over the course of the season.