![]() ![]() ![]() Created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes and Martin Freeman as Doctor John Watson. Already-converted Sherlock fans will be in heaven, while those new to this adaptation are given a self-contained story to lure them in. A British crime drama television series based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyles Sherlock Holmes detective stories. ![]() Easily the most labyrinthine, involved, occasionally confusing Mark Gatiss, Steven Moffat-helmed affair. It turns out the real culprit isn't those meddling kids but instead a cabal with aims sympathetic to modern tastes (even if their methods are suspect). Sherlock: The Abominable Bride (TV) is a film directed by Douglas Mackinnon with Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Amanda Abbington, Mark Gatiss. Well, this was to put it plainly trippy as hell. This episode was as divisive as Cumberbatch's looks. I want to disclose up front that I flew to London to see Benedict Cumberbatch in Hamlet. Having the murderous plot at first appear like a ghost story is a fun Scooby Doo touch, too. The long-awaited Sherlock special, 'The Abominable Bride,' is supposed to satiate our hunger for Sherlock, since we see him so rarely. When an inspector describes a murder scene, we see Holmes' view: He "fast-forwards" through some parts, then freezes the scene right where he needs to see something - a detail anyone else would miss. But the quick-witted chemistry between Cumberbatch and Watson is as potent in The Abominable Bride as ever, and the swooping camera injects a modern note. The vintage clothing, plot contrivances - retro politics play a big part - and crime-solving techniques are all things that any self-respecting PBS-watcher has seen on other Mystery! series. It turns out that injecting some steampunk-era technology and ghostly imagery into a Sherlock and Holmes procedural is a lot of fun. ![]()
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