review sherlock holmes season 3 episode 2

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Will any of these cases come to bear upon the happy nuptials? There are no points for guessing the answer, not least because some of the answers are staring us in the face from the beginning.

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The same is true of the mystery part of the plot: his laboured lecture recounts past cases, including the (ahem) elephant in the room and a neat nod to the original Sign of Four Conan Doyle story, plus the unsolved stabbing of a London palace guard. They’re somewhat ungainly inserted, though, as flashbacks into Sherlock’s speech.

It’s these moments that remind you just how good our leads are together not just as performers, but characters. “He’s clueing for looks!” shouts Martin Freeman, his half-smirking face a delight. After Sherlock’s bout of waitery disguise (complete with fake moustache), we now get to see him and Watson solving cases drunk – a hilarious sequence featuring a deadpan Alice Lowe as a nurse who thinks she slept with a ghost sees Benedict Cumberbatch stumbling around a flat, while his visual deductions display words like “sitty thing?” (when looking at an egg-shaped chair) followed by “sleeeeep”. The Sign of Three also continued last week’s move towards out-and-out comedy. To paraphrase Sherlock’s address, Season 3 seems to be about lives instead of deaths. In some ways, it’s the natural follow-on from The Empty Hearse, which spent more time exploring Watson (Martin Freeman) and Holmes’ (Benedict Cumberbatch) reunion than a briefly-mentioned terrorist plot.

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Two-thirds of a mystery thriller given over to matrimonial tradition? The Sign of Three felt less like an episode of Sherlock and more like an episode of a TV series which happened to star the characters of Sherlock. Indeed, Holmes delivers a big speech – so big, in fact, that the speech easily takes up a whole hour.

Sherlock’s dangerous challenge this week? Delivering the Best Man’s speech at the wedding of John Hamish Watson.

We all know what to expect from a wedding, just as we all know what to expect from an episode of Sherlock, but The Sign of Three skipped the old, blue and borrowed and went straight for something new. Warning: This review contains mild spoilers.