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.
But then the artist is in such a frenzy that he can't stop working on it, and he smudges paint over part of the landscape in his excitement to add a jetpack to a cherub, and the composition falls apart, and the whole thing's a mess again. The messy, disparate parts come together and for a moment it's beautiful and joyful to look at. It's like watching an obsessive painter, after months or even years of work, finally putting the perfect finishing touches on a work of art. Watching a program steered - in whole or in part - by Steven Moffat is a particularly unique experience.
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