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Movie Summary:

It's a genius concept – take those most modern of detecting duos, Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, and transport them to the 19th century. It's a wonder no one ever thought of it before. But before Sir Arthur Conan Doyle starts rolling in his grave – always a tricky feat for someone who was buried standing up – this is not your average carriages and corsets period drama. And it certainly isn't Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes.

If one happened to be a reasonable expert in 1890s Britain, there are a number of inconsistencies at the beginning here that could be jarring, not least the inexplicably gloomy morgue lit by flickering gaslight – compare that to the nice, bright, clean(ish) morgue in fellow BBC stablemate Ripper Street and you wonder why Molly Hooper bothered with the fake mustache at all.

In fact, the whole thing feels like a sporadically enjoyable but generally irritating conceit – a real shame when Mark Gatiss gives such good historical telly. Oh yes, it's shot beautifully, but the anchronisms are painful – does 1890s Mycroft really need to use the phrase “a virus in the data”? How did that not slip past the poor intern on historical accuracy duty?

And then Moriarty breaks into the even-more-fictional-than-normal Baker Street, unapologetically flirting with Sherlock at a time when that could get you imprisoned or worse, twirling Chekov's gun like a music hall villain's mustache and reminding us that the abominable bride's death mimics his own in the "Sherlock" universe we all know. It's not the Reichenbach Fall that will kill you.

That's when the penny drops – or rather, when we realize that it's been dropping just at the corner of our vision the entire episode. The "...and then he woke up and it was all a dream" twist is maligned for a reason, but if it takes talent to make a good cliché work, making a bad one brilliant is Holmes-level genius.

The explanation is that Sherlock was in his mind palace trying to unravel Moriarty's apparent return, but in order to get there he had taken a dangerous cocktail of drugs and read up on an unsolved Victorian murder. We've all been there. The rest of the episode shuttles back and forth at a vertiginous pace between present day and the Victorian era, and who's to say how real even the present day is? This isn't a cheap cop-out, it's seeing Sherlock's mental disintegration from the inside, in all its confusing, non-linear glory.

Moriarty's queerness, never subtle to begin with, is undeniable at this point. He's been in Sherlock's bed, he shows up dressed as a bride, he says the one thing everyone is thinking when he tells Sherlock and Watson to elope. He even straddles Sherlock and kicks him about in a scene painfully reminiscent of Irene Adler. And it's all in Sherlock's mind. This isn't Moriarty telling Sherlock that he's his weakness – this is the great detective telling himself that.

Moriarty is the virus in the data, the thing that corrupts Sherlock's mind palace – that corrupts Sherlock himself – and the thing about viruses is that they want to replicate. They want to make more of themselves.  Moriarty is Sherlock's shadow self, the Hyde to his Jekyll. Moriarty is every impulse Sherlock has never given into, he is Sherlock's shadow self, the Hyde to his Jekyll, so of course Sherlock jumps, of course he follows Moriarty into the abyss - it's not that he can't be without him, it's that he doesn't want to.

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Network:	PBS , BBC
Genre(s):	Drama, Movie/Mini-Series, Suspense
Seasons:	1

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