Purely Joyful Movie!

Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Time jumping, craziness, mind trickery, this special had it all.It wasn't exactly written in the best way and I hate how Sherlock just figures everything out with 20 minutes left out of the blue, but it was surely an entertaining and unique episode of the show.

I loved the going back and forth The Abominable Bride, with Sherlock's mind palace a major plot device in this latest Sherlock instalment, which debuted in the UK on Friday, 1 January 2016. In the UK there's a tradition for Christmas specials this follows in that fine tradition. You may wonder about holidays and ratings, but in the UK a relatively large number of people stay at home during the Christmas season and tune into Dr Who or other Christmas specials (although the cheap price air tickets to Greece and other spots probably sees more British folk spend the Christmas break in sunnier spots).

Although this was an entertaining episode, I felt it was the worst of the Sherlock series. Moffat, Gattis, and company had some fun with His Last Vow, but here they take it perhaps a step too far. I, along with most of the Sherlock fandom I suspect, was not expecting this episode to have any bearing on the rest of the series. It doesn't seem like it will impact season 4 much, apart from giving a preemptive explanation for whether Moriarty "survived". But aside from that, the episode gives us a better look at Sherlock's personality. We knew already that he is self-absorbed, not good with people, and unbelievably intelligent. But this episode is spent largely inside of Sherlock's head, which speaks a lot to how much he does with his mind palace. It's more than just the memory bank that he says it is (see Hound of the Bakserville S2: E2). It's an entire world that he uses to rationalize/dramatize what he observes.The Victorian setting was interesting. I liked a lot of the interpretation, aside from Molly posing as a man with that ridiculous mustache. The way Lestrade brings Sherlock the case at the beginning felt a lot like how most of the original short stories begin, and the cinematography with the living room in the street was really cool to see. The case itself felt even more like Scooby-Doo than Hound of the Baskerville did, but fortunately the case itself was not important. And it was justified by the fact that Sherlock was using it to help him figure out the Moriarty case. The subplot with the KKK style women's suffrage movement seemed a bit out of place, and is pretty predictable if you're familiar with the story of the five orange pips. However, it did show us that Sherlock is perhaps feeling some remorse for his treatment of women. In fact, I wonder if the entire women's suffrage thing was his way of realizing that women deserve a vote, so to speak, in his life. But that's just a theory.The other characters get pushed to the side a bit in this episode. We get to see them a bit, but it's basically just a nod to each one. Again, it is all Sherlock's perception of them, so this could provoke some interesting trains of thought regarding why he thinks of each one the way he does. Moriarty gets some screen-time in this episode if that entices you, but Magnussen does not make an appearance.On the whole, it reminded me of "On Stranger Tides". It was entertaining, but the show has produced much better. So this in-between episode was acceptable, but I sincerely hope that this isn't where the series is going. But if this is the worst it's going to be, then the future looks bright. I would suggest that ardent fans watch this, even if you don't think you'll like it. If nothing else, it gives an explanation for the end of His Last Vow. Just go in with slightly low expectations. Overall Rating: 8.6/10.

Nice try to set the atmosphere in victorian London, but overall this episodes lacks it all.....a good plot a solid story They just made a mess of it .. nice try but please forget this episode quickly ...its a shame as the standards of all the previous episodes were pretty high ( 9 out of ten i rated that...this one is a 5 and mainly for the effort and the victorian settings) Spoileralert; The fact that sherlock is in a high and actually relives the story set in victorian London doesn't it buy it for the viewer...it is just confusing and unsatisfactory In my opinion it would have been better to stick in the current time line as to go back in Victorian time and use sherlocks addiction to drugs to have him hallucinate the story of sherlock holmes in the victorian age( maybe his former life?sorry but many people doesn't believe in reincarnation)