

In TAB Holmes is back in late Victorian London, facing a conundrum that is completely underwhelming. The Abominable Bride was a massive disappointment, especially after the previous 9 'episodes' had so wonderfully recreated the 'classic' Holmes narrative into a modern, digitally interconnected London.

In TAB Holmes is back in late Victorian London, facing a conundrum that is Oh dear. Nevertheless, the episode felt meaningless and unsatisfying, and therefore deserves itself an average score. Overall I let this episode off with the fact that it isn’t actually what season 4 is, merely a spin-off of sorts.
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The episode also provides a few good laughs which has become expected within the series but not all jokes land on two feet. Maybe this episode was Mark Gattis dibbling in a bit of Sherlock horror. There were plenty of times where I genuinely felt unsettled. However, one thing this episode does incredibly is setting up an extremely creepy atmosphere to the episode, with a very dark tone taking place amongst the whole episode and hopefully indicating how dark this show is about to go.

The acting is great overall but at some points I believe they overdo the time periods speech and line deliveries come out oddly. Despite this, chemistry between Cumberbatch and Freeman is as great as ever and we do get some catchy bits of dialogue. There is this lack of any real point of what is going on, and the reward of watching this episode is completely unsatisfying. Instead of focusing on a certain investigation or story arc the plot ping pongs at first between beginning its journey and prematurely ending it and then between the old and new. Whilst this episode was quite unique in what it tried to do, you can’t help but realise the episode is just a bit (and I use this in lack of a more to the point word) pointless. Whilst this episode was quite unique in 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. 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. Nonetheless, a good tie in with a old fashioned Sherlock for classic buffs whilst letting fans of the modern salivate of what's to come. Which is somewhat disturbing as an ideology. Victorian society was eagerly misogynistic.but it never proposed the victims as awful people. Underlings afoot for the future for Sherlock in praise, this feature does lose some applause in it's cloudy pacing in the decency for murder due to misogyny. It's not the greatest Sherlock episode, but it's editing, writing, performances and interweaving messages prove undoubtedly that it is great and wonderfully sets up the next series. It's not the greatest Sherlock episode, but it's editing, writing, performances and interweaving messages prove undoubtedly that it is great and A blend of what seems to be Sherlock and Inception, also burrowing it's way as a lead to the next series, this proves to be a great episode. A blend of what seems to be Sherlock and Inception, also burrowing it's way as a lead to the next series, this proves to be a great episode.
