![]() Like an episode of “Doctor Who,” a series Moffat also shepherds, it was fulfilling or frustrating according to what you watch for and what kind of consistency you require. It felt a little insistent, but as a corrective to earlier plot points, as when Holmes romanced a woman to gain access to her employer’s files, also overdue. I’m your landlady, not a plot device” - to the very solution to the crime. Hudson complains to Watson about her fictional counterpart, “According to you I just show people up the stairs and serve you breakfast. But even Conan Doyle’s originals had a meta-fictional element, existing as literature, written by Watson, within the world of the characters: “Honestly, I cannot congratulate you upon it,” Holmes says to Watson in “Sign of the Four,” when asked whether he’s read “A Study in Scarlet.” “You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story or an elopement into the fifth proposition of Euclid.” But this episode, in which fictions imagine fictions to reflect upon fictions’ fictions, put the meta front and center.Ī feminist theme worked its way through the story, from small jokes - as when Mrs. Holmes is such a familiar figure that, apart from straightforward adaptations of original stories - and the last television series to do that, starring Jeremy Brett, ended more than 20 years ago - every use of Holmes is also a comment on the characters and their habits and accessories. Cumberbatch, especially, has taken the possession of his part so successfully that his upturned collar now feels as much a Holmesean signature as a deerstalker cap. If it felt written backward at times - an elaborate justification of a simple inspiration, to put the characters in their traditional costumes - it moved fast enough to stay fun while it happened. Whether “Sherlock: The Abominable Bride” would be just a jolly holiday experiment, or something to do with the rest of the series was unclear, even to reviewers, who watched with everyone else. It was known in advance that this edition of Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss’ 21st century take on Sherlock Holmes would revert to the time of Arthur Conan Doyle’s original - that Sherlock and John, as familiarly portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, would as it were, play the classic Holmes and Watson, with the pipe and the tweeds and all the Victorian trimmings and harrumphings. 5 and 6.) Three more episodes, a full-fledged fourth season, will go into production this year. 10, and it will run in theaters nationwide Jan. ![]() (PBS will re-air the 90-minute episode Jan. ![]() After nearly two years away, “Sherlock” returned to television with a New Year’s Day special broadcast more or less simultaneously on PBS and the BBC. ![]()
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