What would be the point of leaving the modern setting behind for one episode other than amusement, especially when episodes of the series are so few and far between? It’s a lovely surprise then that, initially, the special is actually a lot of fun, returning a series that had gotten far too serious back to the blackly comic wit that had won us over to begin with. I must admit, I initially expected ‘The Abominable Bride’ would be a waste of time. Set firmly in the world Conan Doyle had originally crafted, the special quickly covers the first meeting between Dr John Watson (Martin Freeman) and Sherlock Holmes (Benedict Cumberbatch) before we’re thrown into an unusual case, where an undead bride has commenced a murderous rampage across London. The series last left us in 2014 with a baffling cliffhanger, but now the acclaimed modern retelling of Arthur Conan Doyle’s beloved character has finally returned. The wait between seasons of ‘Sherlock’ seems to get longer and longer, making its enormous (and recently, confusing) season finales all the more cruel.
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