As someone who agrees with all your complaints about Sherlock, may I recommend Elementary to you, anon? Because its a longer series, its pacing in terms of character development, plot and comic relief is a lot better than Sherlock's, and it also lacks a certain pomposity in its writing that really annoyed with Moffat/Gatiss. Also, being midway through series 1 of Elementary at the moment, you can already tell that it at least has the potential to tell a more sophisticated and emotionally satisfying story than Sherlock (which, again, is partly because of the time it has to tell its story).