Hudson Rupert Graves as DI Lestrad series writer Mark Gatiss as Mycroft Holmes and Andrew Scott as Moriarty. The cast of The Abominable Bride also includes Una Stubbs as Mrs. He added that no version of the Holmes story is the correct one: “It’s not about being definitive, it’s about taking your won perception and doing your own thing with it.” The only definitive Sherlock, he added is “definitely the stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.” It is “sweet friendship and pure reason,” Moffat said.
Her prediction proves to be fatally accurate.In the Masterpiece special, Sherlock: The Abominable Bride, Holmes and Watson find themselves cracking mysteries in 1890s London, focusing in on the case of the “Abominable Bride” - in contrast to the 21st century London milieu of the contemporary series.īackstage, Sherlock executive producer Steven Moffat said that to him the most important things about Sherlock Holmes has always been Holmes’ “demonstrated intelligence” as well as the “eternal friendship of absolute opposites” that is Watson and Holmes. Ricoletti, to inform him of his impending death. From this atmospheric fog emerges the terrible Mrs. Fortunately the episode skips right over those few months to the point where the Abominable Bride emerges yet again, this time threatening a well-to-do aristocrat whose country manor is unfortunately wreathed in atmospheric fog at night. Yes, that does seem a bit out of character, particularly given how revved up the detective is by the nature of the murder.
completely forgets about it for a few months. Sherlock thankfully dismisses the identical twin theory right out of the gate, promises a mutton-chopped Lestrade (Rupert Graves) that he'll inform him of the true murderer's identity once he's solved the case and then.
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The opening is a welcome bit of fan service - a live-action recreation of all the Victorian alternate universe Sherlock fan fiction that is undoubtedly out there - but after the opening credits roll things really get moving, as the episode introduces one of the best and most classic mystery story setups out there: a person seen walking around after seemingly being confirmed dead.Įmelia Ricoletti isn't just walking around, however she starts her post-mortem life by shooting her recently widowed husband, and then becoming Victorian London's very own ghostly serial killer, with an emphasis on male victims and wedding-themed crime scenes. The one saving grace of Sherlock: The Abominable Bride is that the downright awful bits of the episode are sectioned off pretty neatly, so we can look forward to an hour-long fan edit that cuts out all of the terrible nonsense and only keeps in the good bits. Fortunately the good bits comprise the majority of the episode's running time, so for the next part of this review we'll treat "The Abominable Bride" as though reviewing the hour-long fan edit, and focus on the story of the ghostly bride Emelia Ricoletti (Natasha O'Keeffe), and her penchant for murdering beyond the grave.Ī brief prologue recaps the familiar details of Holmes (Benedict Cumberbatch) and Watson's (Martin Freeman) first meeting, substituting the clean, clinical setting of the modern morgue with the dingy and unhygienic backdrop of a nineteenth century St.
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