Watson asking Holmes on that stake-out if he’d ever… you know was only topped by Una Stubbs’ entertainingly dissatisfied Mrs Hudson. The way director Douglas Mackinnon translated Sherlock’s visual tricks to the Victorian era worked a treat, and the pairing of a never-more-suave Benedict Cumberbatch with Martin Freeman’s precise comic timing was as good as ever.īetter even, as Watson’s role as a literary storyteller in The Strand added a new layer to their friendship and allowed for some enjoyably self-aware gags. Review: Sherlock: The Abominable Bride, Friday 1st January, BBC1. Hopping timelines, clever costuming, and emotional. Putting aside the odd dilated pupil and deliberate anachronism (data viruses, jets…) suggesting there was more to this trip back in time than advertised, that first hour was glorious fun. The Abominable Bride set a mark for blurring the lines between Sherlock’s drug trips and Sherlock’s reality. That’s not to say The Abominable Bride didn’t also deliver on the traditional adventure. Letting us think we were in for a cosy, straightforward Victorian-set Holmes adventure and then challenging expectations by delivering something unanticipated is entirely its style. From right at the start, when it risked upsetting purists by putting a smartphone in the hands of Sherlock Holmes, to the resurrection cliff-hanger(s), the Mary revelation and more. Quite the contrary it’s all part of this show’s game. For everyone clapping the return of Andrew Scott’s languid yet maniacal Moriarty, there’d be others complaining that Sherlock was still flogging the same dead corpse.ĭivisive doesn’t equal failure, however. For everyone delighted with the mind games and time slips, there’d be someone else calling it too clever for its own good. Secondly, it was bound to divide opinion. Firstly, it was packed tight with surprises (Mycroft’s expansion, Molly’s moustache, Moriarty’s return…). The most glaring problem in Bride is that Sherlock no longer solves any problems. Now think to yourself: What tasty sample of his genius are we given in the latest episode: Sherlock: The Abominable Bride Don’t be ashamed if you can’t think of any.
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It’s no wonder the BBC held off on press previews of The Abominable Bride. Sherlock: The Abominable Bride was an interesting and arty take on the Sherlock story that intertwines itself a bit with the start of episode 4, but loses any real impact it might have had due to it being lots of artiness but not enough substance. Suddenly, he concludes she’s a serial adulterer who’d just returned from Cardiff.
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