Sherlock (BBC/PBS) Discussion **SPOILERS**

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Wondering if there's a following here for this show.

Sherlock is a modern-day take on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Homes. Each season consists of only three fantastically written 90-minute episodes. They've aired two seasons so far with a third slated to start production in early 2013.

I've recently learned that the PBS version is slightly edited/cut from the BBC version in order to fit in PBS' time allotment.

Please don't confuse/compare this with CBS' Elementary which is not allowed to be discussed here.

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Episode Guide

Series 1 (2010)
1. "A Study in Pink"
2. "The Blind Banker"
3. "The Great Game"

Series 2 (2012)
1. "A Scandal in Belgravia"
2. "The Hounds of Baskerville"
3. "The Reichenbach Fall"

Series 3 (2013)
1. "The Empty Hearse"
2. "The Sign of Three"
3. "His Last Vow"

[sterlingice]

I'm a fan

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[Honolulu_Blue]

I'm a huge fan. Great show. The two leads are fantastic.

[rowech]

Great show. Episode one of season two is nothing short of fantastic.

[Atocep]

Love this show. The guy playing Moriarity is brilliant IMO. Can't wait for season 3.

[ISiddiqui]

It's an awesome show!

[Glengoyne]

Love it.

Looking forward to the next season, as the second season left me a little wanting. Too much plot for three episodes.

Although based on the above posts, I'm going to have to watch the BBC version of season two, as I watched that on PBS when it originally aired. That editing might well have been what made season two fall just a little bit shy of what I was expecting.

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The end of the second season left me wondering about, and scouring the Internet for answers for, how...

(Spoiler from "The Reichenbach Fall")

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...Sherlock survived the fall from the building. Plenty of theories out there, but apparently everyone has missed an important clue.

[PraetorianX]

One of the best shows on TV.

I think that part of the reason it's so good is because there are only three ninety minute episodes. I just don't know that Sherlock would work as well over a 20+ episode season like you'd get on one of the networks.

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Originally Posted by Atocep

Love this show. The guy playing Moriarity is brilliant IMO. Can't wait for season 3.

Moriarty seems to me like Stephen Moffat's interpretation of Russell T Davies's The Master from Season 3 of Doctor Who

SI

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Sherlock Season 2 is now available on Netflix.

[JediKooter]

I am definitely a fan of this show.

[saldana]

this show is pure awesome...i love all references to the actual stories. i originally didnt like the way that mycroft was trying to keep tabs on sherlock, since that is quite a stretch from Doyle, having been a huge fan of the original books, but the way they have worked him into the stories has actually been pretty good and quite original.

[sterlingice]

Agreed: I really like the job they have done with Mycroft

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[saldana]

the thing i actually like the most, is that the information that holmes uses to figure things out is always explained...either they show you what he is seeing to make his deductions, or he explains it. Doyle actually stopped doing that himself in the later stories, and it was kind of annoying from a readers standpoint, but the way the show is written, you can actually figure things out yourself if you are paying close enough attention, and if you cant, they dont resolve everything with a bunch of off camera activity.

[albionmoonlight]

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Mrs. A had a hunch and freeze framed the scene where the guy on the bicycle hits Watson as he is going to see Sherlock's body. Turns out that the guy on the bicycle is Sherlock.

We love this show.

[jeff061]

First season was ok, they had the Sherlock character down but were still feeling things out. Second season was brilliant all around. Can't wait for third.

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Originally Posted by albionmoonlight

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Mrs. A had a hunch and freeze framed the scene where the guy on the bicycle hits Watson as he is going to see Sherlock's body. Turns out that the guy on the bicycle is Sherlock.

We love this show.

Well, that's one I hadn't thought of.

[OldGiants]

Originally Posted by AnalBumCover

Well, that's one I hadn't thought of.

I'm certain his discussion with the medical examiner right before the final scenes will be revealed as crucial to the deception.

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For those living across the pond, "Sherlock" Season 3 will premiere on January 1, 2014 on BBC.

BBC Promotes 'Sherlock' Return With Hearse - The Hollywood Reporter

The U.K. public broadcaster will air the first of three new episodes of the Benedict Cumberbatch show, entitled "The Empty Hearse," on Jan. 1, ahead of the U.S. return on PBS.

LONDON – A black funeral hearse with a floral arrangement spelling out the name "Sherlock" and the date 01/01/14 cruised around the British capital on Friday.

It was part of a BBC promotion heralding the return to U.K. screens of the hit detective show of the same name starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman as Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, respectively.

The London hearse also carried the hash tag #sherlocklives in the funeral driver's window.

The new season picks up two years after Holmes was last seen falling from a building in season two's finale, "The Reichenbach Fall."

The BBC aimed to ignite anticipation for the show's third season with the not too subtle publicity stunt for the first episode in the new three-parter, which is entitled "The Empty Hearse." The first episode will air Jan. 1 on the public broadcaster's flagship channel BBC One.

The season's second episode will air just later that same week on Jan. 5, with the third and final episode of the season scheduled for Jan. 12.

The drama airs on PBS in the U.S., with the third season scheduled to kick off there on Jan. 19.

The BBC had already flagged its intention to make the show a big part of its holiday programming in the U.K., but hadn't confirmed U.K. dates so far.

[dave731]

Originally Posted by rowech

Great show. Episode one of season two is nothing short of fantastic.

Just watched this and it was very close to the best 90 minutes of anything I have ever watched...ever. Absolutely brilliant.

[ColtCrazy]

This is my all time favorite show. Period. Love watching these. It's like a great six movie series.

[chinaski]

Season finale was about as perfect as you can get. Completely brilliant. So excited for the next two seasons.

[ColtCrazy]

A week away. Very excited for this to return. Watched Downton tonight and there were trailers for Sherlock. Looks great.

[Northwood_DK]

Originally Posted by chinaski

Season finale was about as perfect as you can get. Completely brilliant. So excited for the next two seasons.

Just watched it tonight. That was possible the best 90 minutes of television I have ever seen. Just perfectly executed all the way down to the very last picture.

[ISiddiqui]

Really?!

I thought it was highly, highly disappointing. One of the worst episodes of Sherlock. I don't think the whole "Sherlock is a massive dick" characterization works very well.

[ColtCrazy]

Sticking to the US schedule, just finished the first episode. Thought it was very, very good.

[Easy Mac]

Yeah, this season was a bit of a letdown, but season 2 was pretty much perfect.

[Easy Mac]

Completely forgot this was tonight, so now I'm staying up late to watch it. Can't think of another show in recent memory where I've done that.

[rowech]

Can't decide if I liked last night's episode.

[chinaski]

any Sherlock is good Sherlock, but that was a bit weird.

[albionmoonlight]

Any Sherlock is good Sherlock.

Mrs. A would have liked the episode to be a full stand-alone episode.

I liked the connection, but I would have wanted it at the very end instead of throughout. Basically, keep us 100% in the past. Then, at the end, make it his mind-palace drug dream. The back and forth seemed a bit too cute.

[SackAttack]

Saw it in the local theater last night, and, yeah, the back-and-forth was a little too cute. My friend, who's a bigger Sherlock fan than I am (and I enjoy the show immensely) had no idea whether she liked the episode or not.

[ColtCrazy]

Watched it in the theater tonight. Wife isn't sure she liked it. I liked it, but considering it's Moffat and how he writes "special" for Dr. Who, I expected something different. It was good and sets up season 4 pretty well. I can't say I've seen a Sherlock episode I didn't like.

[EagleFan]

Watched it at the theater tonight. Not one of my favorite episodes but I liked it.

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Season 4 is set to premiere 1/1/17!