‘The Abominable Bride’ was greatly enjoyable as someone who has made an effort to keep up with Sherlock, but I imagine that much of it would be lost on people who haven’t followed the series intently. The links into the show as it is set in the modern times were enjoyable but I did wonder how they came across to the casual viewer, who perhaps hasn’t seen the previous season – or indeed, simply watched them when they came out anywhere between two and six years ago.
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It harked back to the suspense and fear factor of Jeremy Brett’s ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’. Her lilting, creepy song is genuinely unnerving, and I will hold my hands up and admit that I screamed like a banshee when she appeared behind Watson as he guarded the broken window. The case of the bride is spooky enough to make the hairs on the back of your neck stand on the end. Personally, the greatest gift the special provides is the opportunity to see Jim Moriarty’s reaction upon being referred to as ‘shortarse’ by Sherlock Holmes. Turns out he does indeed, and Scott continues to be the show’s biggest scene stealer. The ‘will he/won’t he’ possibility of Andrew Scott’s Jim Moriarty making an appearance in ‘The Abominable Bride’ has been a source of speculation for months now. Cumberbatch’s delivery is pitch perfect, and it’s one of many snigger-worthy moments in the special. ‘Pass me your revolver, I have a sudden need to use it,’ Holmes responds in disgust to Watson’s attempts to probe into his personal life. In terms of humour, the relationship between Sherlock and John has always been a goldmine for comedy, and ‘The Abominable Bride’ carries on this tradition with vigour and glee.
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It’s stuffed full of suspense, drama and humour up to a certain point, it works, and works well. It’s a cheeky, intriguing murder mystery with characters we know and love in top hats and tails. ‘The Abominable Bride’ is, for the most part, hugely enjoyable. High on a potent cocktail of drugs, Sherlock retreats into his Mind Palace in an attempt to solve a similar case from a century gone by the case of Emelia Ricoletti, a bride who shot herself but somehow rose again.įirst things first. ‘The Abominable Bride’ carries off from where we left Sherlock in Season 3’s finale ‘His Last Vow’, having just heard that Moriarty is apparently back from the dead. Two years on from the third season, we have a one-off special to tide us over. A new episode of Sherlock is a rare treasure that only emerges once every blue moon and causes by its very existence a feverish excitement among its fanbase.
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