Sherlock Season Three just concluded here in the UK. But on the other side of the pond people are so lucky as they have no clue what mind-blowing moments are in store for them when Sherlock Season Three starts tonight on PBS. I will try my best to be as cryptic as the Sherlock writers Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss (who also plays Mycroft in the series) while trying to make any sense of what happened in the Sherlock Season Three.
If you do not want to know anything about the Season Three, then stop reading as this post will not self-destruct in 5 seconds. That’s another franchise. There will be slight spoilers, but none of the mind-blowing spoilers will be revealed.
We all know that Sherlock is back from the ‘Great Beyond’, but we don’t know how he pulled it off. So cast your eyes and ears in full detection-mode towards the first episode of Season Three ‘The Empty Hearse’ as it will reveal how it happened. Then again – what’s the fun in knowing the truth. It seems that Moffat and Gatiss came to that conclusion as even though it was claimed that everything will be explained in the first episode, my questions were not answered. Unless I missed a vital part of the first episode by being hypnotised by my Chihuahua, no explanation was given. A several possible scenarios emerged, but no definite truth.
Ok, so Sherlock (Benedict Cumberbatch) is back for good (who knows). But it’s not easy for everybody to accept his two-year absence without anger, questions and general flabbergastedness. Lots has changed for Dr. Watson (Martin Freeman) during that time – he now has a girlfriend and shortly fiancée Mary Morstan (played by Martin Freeman’s real-life wife Amanda Abbington). Sherlock delves back into his old life like nothing happened. He also has a new mission appointed by his MI6 brother Mycroft Holmes (Mark Gatiss). But he shortly gets distracted as there is a madman on the loose who wants to ‘Guy Fawkes’ Dr. Watson. I – like Sherlock – prefer Dr. Watson ‘not roasted’.
Disaster avoided and in the episode two ‘The Sign of Three’ the mood is much lighter as it’s time for Mary and Dr. Watson get hitched. Needless to say the wedding does not happen without a hitch (pun intended!) and on top of his best-man (yes, everybody is scared about that) duties Sherlock and the now ‘blissfully’ married Dr. Watson end up solving not one but two murders with a little help from Mary.
After the Season Two cliffhanger season finale ‘Reichenbach Falls’ and that jump, I was sceptical how would Moffat and Gatiss possibly top that in the Season Three last episode ‘His Last Vow’. I must bow to their genius writing as they have once again pulled off a spectacular cliffhanger episode with several ‘mouth-hanging-open’ moments. This last episode introduces a new kind of ‘Sherlock’ villain Charles Augustus Magnussen (played by The Killing‘s Lars Mikkelsen). Magnussen is truly, deeply a disturbed super-evil baddie and Sherlock must reach new levels to make sure he is caught. Even though this last episode of the Sherlock Season Three is much darker than the previous episodes, there is one lighter event that makes even Dr. Watson question his sanity – Sherlock has a girlfriend. Does this mean that Sherlock will get engaged and have little Sherlock-babies running around 221B Baker Street? Nothing is that black and white in Sherlock’s world!
Oh; I almost forgot – guess who’s back with #missme…
Photos: via I Am Sherlocked G+ and BBC Sherlock
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