BBC's Sherlock

[Everlong]

Who else watches this? I just watched the third and final episode of season 3 last night and it was fantastic.

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First off, the revelation of Mary's past was pretty stunning, and for a bit I thought they were going the villain route with her. I'm glad they're keeping her and John to together though, I don't know how much more heartbreak I can see Watson take

Second, the villain for this episode was awesome. Unfortunately I've already forgotten his name but he was played to perfection and it was cool that we got someone else who has the whole "mind palace" thing.

But most of all, holy shit, Moriarty!! Can't wait to see what that's all about, whenever the show comes back. I still don't think he's alive, but I'm pumped to see what happens anyway.

My only disappointment with this season is that

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we never found out how Sherlock survived the fall!

[SlightlyJames]

Yeah it's a pretty damn good show, shame they make so little of it.

[Hanley!]

Well as the creators say, they're movie length, so they basically make us 3 Sherlock movies every time around. That's not so bad when you think about it. We waited longer for the sequel to the Robert Downey Jr Sherlock movie and that wasn't nearly as good.

It was a great season, and I'm really not disappointed with any of it.

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I actually liked how they handled the fall, because while they didn't tell us how he survived, they introduced enough elements that you can put together a plausible theory. I don't need to have it spoon fed to me, I just need to know it was possible, and some of the elements they came up with (such as the girl's reaction to Sherlock meaning that there must have been a Sherlock doppelganger out there) were quite clever.

The first episode had some good comedy, got things back on track, introduced Mary and had a cool short little mystery to whet the audience's appetite for the season. The second episode was probably the most fun from the show's run so far. I liked the emotional touches at the wedding, I liked the ridiculousness of the bachelor party and the mystery of the Mayfly man slowly being weaved into the wedding was nicely written.

And the final episode was amazing. It was going to be hard to top Moriarty as villain, and lets be honest, he probably didn't. But it was still a great performance from a truly despicable character. The drama with Mary was really interesting and really well acted by both her actress and Martin Freeman.

And motherfucking Moriarty!! I don't know if he's alive, if he set something in motion before he died, or if Sherlock just created that video to get himself off the hook, but I'm just excited by it either way. Moriarty on this show has been the most inspired portrayal of an iconic character since Heath Ledger's Joker, and anything that might keep that guy in future episodes sounds great to me.

[Daz]

i was a little bit underwhelmed by the final episode. Not entirely sure why, it just didn't do much for me ... until the ending. I will say I didn't enjoy the resolution to the mary and watson stuff. It felt a little bit forced. I did however think the second episode of this series was the best they've ever done.

[UTK]

Wait, the season only has three episodes?

EDIT: They're 90 minutes. it now makes sense.