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1. #Where to watch sherlock the abominable bride india showtime series#
2. #Where to watch sherlock the abominable bride india showtime tv#

The modern-day material feels like a tacked-on footnote to the rest of the story, and, worse, it robs the Victorian story of much of its immediacy.

#Where to watch sherlock the abominable bride india showtime series#

Series creators Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, responsible for the special's script, tie themselves up in knots trying to solve two separate mysteries in two separate timelines, even while attempting to make both of those mysteries about the same thing (how a seemingly dead person could appear later on). And the first half, while a little overwrought (typical for Sherlock), is a fair amount of fun, as Holmes and Watson dance around the idea that the men of London seem to be dying at the hands of a forlorn bride's vengeful ghost.īut the problem comes in the special's second half, when it's revealed to be a dream (and/or hallucination, and/or memory palace visit) conjured up by the brain of the 2014 Sherlock Holmes, in order to figure out how his archnemesis Moriarty could have survived his seeming death in the season two finale. The Victorian London setting is the best thing about "The Abominable Bride." It takes characters we're familiar with in one context, then plops them down in a context we're familiar with for entirely different reasons.

#Where to watch sherlock the abominable bride india showtime tv#

Throw in a small segment of the special set at Christmastime, a murderous ghost, and a slew of references to both the TV series and Doyle's stories, and you have the makings of what could become a holiday perennial. It would take the Sherlock and Watson of this modern adaptation (played, as always, by Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, respectively) back to the 1890s setting of Doyle's original stories. "The Abominable Bride" was promoted largely as a fun-loving one-off, a "what if" story. At its best, it's terrific fun, throwing some of the best detective stories ever written in front of a funhouse mirror until they look like goofy versions of their original selves. Sherlock is normally set in the modern era, updating and twisting some of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous short stories in ways that fit the 2010s. 1) Sherlock's storytelling is more needlessly convoluted than ever The Victorian era stuff isn't bad, but is quickly disrupted by needlessly convoluted storytelling.

To give you five reasons why this is the case, however I'll have to get into some major spoilers - so keep that in mind before you read on. It could have been a lean and nimble little ghost story, a holiday treat. The special, titled "The Abominable Bride," didn't just irritate me it made me actively angry at how it wasted a great idea in the name of pointless complications and fan service. If that were true (and I think it was), then the New Year's special that kicked off the year 2016 was the show making its way through the intestines, then setting up shop in its own stomach while preparing a ladder to climb up through its esophagus.