The recently released series Young Sherlock has been receiving praise for it’s storytelling and characters. While the show delves into the younger and formative years of Sherlock Holmes, played by Hero Fiennes Tiffin, it focuses more on his family. Actor Max Irons essays the role of Sherlock Holmes’ brother Mycroft Holmes in the show, and he asserts on the importance of Mycroft in the Sherlock universe. Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Max Irons and Colin Firth in Young Sherlock He says, “I think Mycroft is a useful counterbalance to Sherlock. Sherlock, at this particular point in his life, is a bit anarchic, a bit unstructured and a bit of an agent of chaos. Mycroft, on the other hand, is a believer of being an agent for change within the system, within the constraints of the system. He’s in the civil services and as you see in the early episodes, he is there to bail out Sherlock, to shepherd him and I think that counterbalance, that yin and yang is useful.” Watch the entire chat with Max Irons …