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The Abominable Bride has a heavy social justice angle dealing with how women are treated in 19th Century England. The production quality on this show has always been top-notch. The supporting cast is phenomenal as well. And Scott is so delightfully zany as Moriarty that it continues to be a shame that the show runners killed him off in season two. Again, Freeman and Cumberbatch are phenomenal in embodying these characters and are a real treat to watch. Let’s talk for a moment about what’s good: mainly it’s the actors. I found that to be a tremendous let down. For most of the episode you think you’re actually just watching a “what if” version of Sherlock set in this earlier time period, but near the end of the episode you find that in fact this special is set within the main timeline of the show, and Sherlock is only entering his mind palace to simulate how he would have investigated this 100-year-old mystery in order to figure out what’s going on with Moriarty in the real world of the 21st Century. Frankly, the way they handled it in season three was completely ridiculous, but it soars to new heights of silliness in The Abominable Bride. In the last season of Sherlock they really played up the notion that Sherlock can essentially enter and explore his own mind in something the show calls a “mind palace”. That’s essentially what The Abominable Bride is. In fact, more than once they were trapped within the world of Holmes and Moriarty. At least once a season there was an episode where the Enterprise crew would become trapped in the Holodeck, and often these episodes were tedious. Remember the Holodeck? It’s that magical room in Star Trek: The Next Generation that can simulate any environment, real or fictional, complete with realistic characters to interact with.

Unfortunately, The Abominable Bride is little more than a Holodeck episode.

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Heck, I’d even be very cool with a complete series reboot that set the show in the past.

It was with some trepidation that I approached The Abominable Bride given what the show had devolved to last season, but at least since this one was ostensibly set in the classic Sherlock Holmes era of the 19th Century I had hoped I could shed the memory of recent episodes. Check it out, it’s one of my better pieces.) What was more appalling is the way fans of the show just casually accepted Sherlock Holmes’s dark turn with little more than a shrug of the shoulders. But I found season three to be a steep decline in quality from the previous two seasons, and the way season three ended with Sherlock murdering his opponent after being beaten in a game of wits was absolutely appalling. Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman are fantastic as Sherlock and Watson in contemporary London, and Andrew Scott’s off-kilter and very uncharacteristic take on Moriarty is delightful. I absolutely adore the first two seasons of Sherlock. First a little background on my relationship with this show. Tonight I finally sat down to watch The Abominable Bride, the Sherlock Christmas special from this last year. So don’t read this until you’ve seen the movie, k?

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So you should know this post is chock full of spoilers.

#Sherlock abominable bride review terrible movie#

Yeah, I can’t talk about a movie without talking about the entire movie.