6/23/2023 0 Comments Review sherlock bride![]() Easily the most labyrinthine, involved, occasionally confusing Mark Gatiss, Steven Moffat-helmed affair. In the meantime, just marvel at the treasures being poured out before you) was a thing of wonder. Well, this was to put it plainly trippy as hell. It was an utterly dazzling display, with bravura performances from the actors – Cumberbatch and Scott’s first scene together being among the finest they have ever had – and the plotting (if you stayed with it, and if you didn’t – no matter. ![]() Viewers new to the series probably found this. If not convenient, come all the same” – because Sherlock is a constant) – but never twins. After the first time slip, The Abominable Brideflirts with narrative structure more and more as it jumps between Victorian and 21st-century London. There were doubles, and doublings-back, and parallels aplenty, there were storylines nesting inside storylines nesting inside storylines, dreams inside realities and out again, there were riffs on the riffs we know from the “real” series – the detective plucks imaginary cuttings from the air instead of websites and images and Watson is summoned by Holmes via telegram instead of text (“Come at once. Both their bodies are present in the morgue for all to see. If you haven't watched Sherlock, the more modern BBC incarnation of the duo, I suggest you stop reading this post and catch up. Lestrade arrived to report a case – a bride shoots herself dead in public only to reappear in the street and kill her husband a few hours later. I've mentioned before how I love a good bromance (more on my months of Supernatural viewing later), and Sherlock Holmes and John Watson is one of the best. A barrage of in-jokes about her character’s silence in Watson’s retellings of events in the Strand Magazine, a lightning deduction by Holmes about the mysterious woman in his sitting room (“Is it intentional?”) and we were off. They don't even have the answers to the questions are presenting themselves. The writers are buried under their own creation, trying to be edgy. The main actors have a credibility and a presence but there is nothing else there. Now, for the first time, all 4 seasons and The Abominable Bride Special have been collected together. A thrilling, funny, fast-paced contemporary reimagining of the Arthur Conan Doyle classic. Any fears that the age would weary it were briskly dealt with by Mrs Hudson in the first few minutes. I liked Irene's Adler episode and the Reichenbach Fall but this series turned into crap. John Watsons adventures in 21st Century London. The Abominable Bride, the long-awaited Christmas special from Moffatt, Gatiss, Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman and just about everyone else who has had a hand in the nine episodes of Sherlock that have been gifted to a grateful nation since it first exploded on our screens in 2010, was set in Victorian London (one of the few things we knew in advance, thanks to the impossibility of filming anyone in full 19th-century tweeds without someone popping the news on Twitter).
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