I happened to be staying out of town last night in a hotel that shared a parking lot with a movie theater and to my great surprise they were playing a special showing of Sherlock: The Abominable Bride.
If you are just crawling out from under a stone and have never heard of the BBCs updated version of Sherlock then treat yourself to some Netflix and Chill this weekend and bing watch all 3 seasons that are currently available. Until you have the chance to do that, just know that Sherlock is a modern day version of the classic Sherlock Holmes stories crafted in an expert manner by the its creators Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat.
**Warning Spoilers Ahead**
The Abominable Bride was advertised as a Christmas special one off for the fans that have been waiting 2 years for series 4 to come out. It is set in the classic Victorian time period that we are all used to seeing Sherlock do his deducing in. This upset a great many (myself included) who had fallen in love with the modern day version of the character, but after 2 years anything was MORE than welcome.
I should have know that the shows creators would have something more up their sleeves, but I was genuinely surprised to find out that we were inside of Sherlock "mind palace" the whole time attempting to solve a murder from 100 years ago. This was not a one off like I had mentally prepared myself for, but episode 1 of 1 in season 4.
Sherlock descended deep within his mind to solve the case of the bride that killed herself and then rose from the dead to kill her husband and many others. The case was never solved and held the key to finding out how Moriarty had returned from the dead after blowing his brains out less than 2 feet from Sherlock in Series 2.
We were rocked back in forth between reality and the mind of Sherlock and many times questioned which of the two worlds was truly real. It was a great change of pace and a more than welcome explanation to the shift to the Victorian time period.
As always the script and story were brilliantly re-told and the actors despite playing two different versions of their characters did so flawlessly. We were treated to even more of what we know and love about Shrelock and even shown what has been ignored or only teased up to this point about his drug addiction.
To this day if I were stuck on an island and could only have 3 shows to watch over and over again, Shrelock would without doubt be on that list. The Abominable Bride is a more than welcome addition to this amazing series.
If you are just crawling out from under a stone and have never heard of the BBCs updated version of Sherlock then treat yourself to some Netflix and Chill this weekend and bing watch all 3 seasons that are currently available. Until you have the chance to do that, just know that Sherlock is a modern day version of the classic Sherlock Holmes stories crafted in an expert manner by the its creators Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat.
**Warning Spoilers Ahead**
The Abominable Bride was advertised as a Christmas special one off for the fans that have been waiting 2 years for series 4 to come out. It is set in the classic Victorian time period that we are all used to seeing Sherlock do his deducing in. This upset a great many (myself included) who had fallen in love with the modern day version of the character, but after 2 years anything was MORE than welcome.
I should have know that the shows creators would have something more up their sleeves, but I was genuinely surprised to find out that we were inside of Sherlock "mind palace" the whole time attempting to solve a murder from 100 years ago. This was not a one off like I had mentally prepared myself for, but episode 1 of 1 in season 4.
Sherlock descended deep within his mind to solve the case of the bride that killed herself and then rose from the dead to kill her husband and many others. The case was never solved and held the key to finding out how Moriarty had returned from the dead after blowing his brains out less than 2 feet from Sherlock in Series 2.
We were rocked back in forth between reality and the mind of Sherlock and many times questioned which of the two worlds was truly real. It was a great change of pace and a more than welcome explanation to the shift to the Victorian time period.
As always the script and story were brilliantly re-told and the actors despite playing two different versions of their characters did so flawlessly. We were treated to even more of what we know and love about Shrelock and even shown what has been ignored or only teased up to this point about his drug addiction.
To this day if I were stuck on an island and could only have 3 shows to watch over and over again, Shrelock would without doubt be on that list. The Abominable Bride is a more than welcome addition to this amazing series.