Sherlock tackles a 120-year-old mystery as he wages a deadly battle with Jim Moriarty inside his own mind palace.
This mind-bending, time-travelling one-off special could have fallen horribly flat. However, both the case-within-the-case and the broader Inception-style investigation by Sherlock into Moriarty’s apparent return from the dead, delivered on Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss’s gleeful description of this story being like having their cake and eating it.
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The Victorian part of the story consists of two linked mysteries. The Abominable Bride serves as a proxy for Sherlock’s assessment of how Moriarty could possibly have survived blowing his own brains out. The murder of Lord Eustace Carmichael ties in… Read the full story
