{"id":846,"date":"2012-05-21T14:51:57","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T18:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.slj.com\/connect-the-pop\/?p=846"},"modified":"2012-05-21T14:51:57","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T18:51:57","slug":"its-giveaway-time-again-sherlock-season-two-on-dvd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.slj.com\/connect-the-pop\/2012\/05\/21\/its-giveaway-time-again-sherlock-season-two-on-dvd\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Giveaway Time Again: &#8220;Sherlock&#8221; Season Two on DVD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-847 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/sljinactiveprd.wpengine.com\/connect-the-pop\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/05\/SherlockBBC_S2_DVD.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.slj.com\/connect-the-pop\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/05\/SherlockBBC_S2_DVD.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blogs.slj.com\/connect-the-pop\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/05\/SherlockBBC_S2_DVD-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>Who has the coolest avatar on Twitter?<\/p>\n<p>For my money, it\u2019s Steven Moffat, since it shows the writer-producer surrounded by both Matt Smith as the Doctor <em>and<\/em> Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes.<\/p>\n<p>That observation is not really apropos of anything, by the way\u2026 except perhaps how Moffat has wonderfully updated the most played-out fictional detective in all of pop culture\u2026 yet has done so in a way that remains brilliantly faithful to the original Conan Doyle tales.<\/p>\n<p>And although the second season of <em>Sherlock<\/em> has just concluded airing on PBS here in the States, it\u2019s already available on disc, or at least <em>will<\/em> be come tomorrow. In addition to its three movie-length episodes, the DVD release includes these bonus features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Audio Commentary for <em>A Scandal in Belgravia<\/em> and <em>The Hounds of Baskerville<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Sherlock Uncovered<\/em>, a behind-the-scenes featurette<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks to the good folks at BBC Worldwide Americas, Connect the Pop has a couple of DVD\u2019s for readers. Here are the rules if you\u2019d like one:<\/p>\n<ol start=\"1\">\n<li>You must have a U.S. or Canadian mailing address to which the DVD can be shipped.<\/li>\n<li>Leave a comment here about any of the above\u2014what you think of <em>Sherlock<\/em> or why you\u2019re looking forward to seeing it, how it compares\/contrasts to <em>Doctor Who<\/em>, or why this particular adaptation of the Holmes characters is so popular\/memorable\u2026 anything.<\/li>\n<li>\u201c@\u201d me on Twitter with the hashtags #Sherlock and #ConnectThePop in the tweet to let me know you\u2019ve done this. (I\u2019m @Peter_Gutierrez.)<\/li>\n<li>Everyone who does these two things between now and 12:01 am EST on May 23 will be entered into the drawing.<\/li>\n<li>If you don\u2019t have a Twitter account, just have a friend or colleague tweet on your behalf, letting me know which comment here is associated with the tweet\u2014but of course since the DVD will be sent to him\/her (see #6 below), you\u2019ll have to work it out from there. (Or just start your own Twitter account in a couple of minutes, and close it when this giveaway is over.)<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019ll notify you on Twitter, not here, if you\u2019ve won a DVD, and if you don\u2019t respond within 48 hours, I\u2019ll just draw another name. If you\u2019re a winner, you\u2019ll simply DM me your mailing address and we\u2019ll be all set. Thanks!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-856\" src=\"https:\/\/sljinactiveprd.wpengine.com\/connect-the-pop\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/05\/Moffat-Friends.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.slj.com\/connect-the-pop\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/05\/Moffat-Friends.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blogs.slj.com\/connect-the-pop\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/05\/Moffat-Friends-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.slj.com\/connect-the-pop\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/05\/Moffat-Friends-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.slj.com\/connect-the-pop\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/05\/Moffat-Friends-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out on Region 1 DVD tomorrow, Sherlock&#8217;s S2 builds on the fun of S1 while continuing the series&#8217; masterful update of literature&#8217;s most famous detective&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,24,112,17],"tags":[123],"class_list":{"0":"post-846","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-english","8":"category-fandom","9":"category-giveaways","10":"category-tv","11":"tag-sherlock-holmes","12":"entry"},"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/blogs.slj.com\/connect-the-pop\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/05\/SherlockBBC_S2_DVD-500x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/blogs.slj.com\/connect-the-pop\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/05\/SherlockBBC_S2_DVD-500x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Peter Gutierrez","author_link":"https:\/\/blogs.slj.com\/connect-the-pop\/author\/peterjgutierrez\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.slj.com\/connect-the-pop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.slj.com\/connect-the-pop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.slj.com\/connect-the-pop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.slj.com\/connect-the-pop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.slj.com\/connect-the-pop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.slj.com\/connect-the-pop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.slj.com\/connect-the-pop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.slj.com\/connect-the-pop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.slj.com\/connect-the-pop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.slj.com\/connect-the-pop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}