1/27/2024 0 Comments Review sherlock bride![]() The supporting players are all excellent and Amanda Abbington’s Mary Watson especially makes the most of her limited presence. The acting remains brilliant and if there was any argument somehow yet in existence that Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman were inappropriate casting choices for Sherlock and Watson, respectively, this episode should have understandably absolved them (the overall tepid quality of the episode may not help in this regard, however). The costuming, the verbiage, the production design, everything is top-notch and from the first frame to the one right before Moriarty enters the picture (more on that below), there’s a germane beauty to the setting. The Victorian setting takes the story of the world’s most famous detective to his original era and the attention to the detail is exquisite. There is a verisimilitude to admire here, before the episode gets dragged down by its own loftiness in regards to how intelligent it truly is. It is unfortunately one of those in-betweens, with a plethora of beauty and also an immense amount of palpable frustration that dragged down an installment that had the potential of being perfect. Opinions on The Abominable Bride are echoing that sentiment, with praise, cringes, and a plethora of in-betweens in abundant measure. Not even the tense His Last Vow (winner of multiple Emmy awards) could help the season’s overall feeling of deflation and diminishing returns. Season three was by far the weakest yet, with the first two hours taking forty minutes of plot and multiplying it twice over for a dour filler effect. The Hounds of Baskerville seemed especially disappointing after the brilliant A Scandal in Belgravia. ![]() The Orientalism on display in the second episode was tone-deaf in an otherwise intelligent installment. Every season (or series if you prefer) has had a thoroughfare in an episode or more that seemed to be insulting to the audience’s overall intelligence. Sherlock as a whole has never been perfect. Would it be a one-off special that doesn’t tie into the modern-day Sherlock? That seemed to be the most obvious idea and it was fine, but the final product that looked to be such does so for a brief amount of time before careening into something else entirely. There was quite a lot of speculation as to what this special episode entitled The Abominable Bride would actually be. As a way to stem public demand, the show opted for a special episode that turned out to be set in Victorian times. Considering how many films and series Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman were/are/will be involved in ( The Imitation Game, Marvel, and The Hobbit are largely responsible here), their schedules have caused one of BBC’s highest rated dramas to wait a considerable amount of time between installments. Sherlock’s first Christmas special raised a lot of questions from the moment it was announced.
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