TV-14, 90 min.
Director: Toby Haynes
Writers: Steve Thompson,
Mark Gatiss (creator), Steven Moffat (creator), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (works)
Starring: Benedict
Cumberbacth, Martin Freeman, Andrew Scott, Una Stubbs, Rupert Graves, Mark
Gatiss, Louise Brealey, Katherine Parkinson, Vinette Robinson, Jonathan Aris,
Tony Pitts
I’m wondering what iconic “Sherlock”
story details are left for season three of this amazing series. I’m sure there are
many that I’m forgetting, but for those with knowledge of Sherlock’s
adventures, “The Reichenbach Fall” is one of the crown jewels. For those
unfamiliar with the books… well, I probably shouldn’t spoil what so famously
happened at Reichenbach Falls.
Of course, there is no
Reichenbach Falls in this updated version of Sherlock, so instead it becomes
the subject of a famous painting of which Sherlock helps to recover. This opens the whole storyline of
Sherlock becoming too well known to be an effective detective. Here a photo
taken of Sherlock in his famous deerstalker hat—from earlier in the series—becomes
a point of contention for the sleuth.
I believe he refers to it as a “death Frisbee.” Watson explains that it
is no longer a deerstalker, “It’s a Sherlock Holmes hat.” This self-referencing
in the context of modern beliefs and practices is part of what makes this
series absolutely brilliant.
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