The costuming, lighting, and background architecture all greatly enhance our watching experience, and I really felt immersed in the Victorian era that I think many shows come up short in creating for their audience. I think that’s one of the things that most appealed to me as a viewer, and it relates to something I learned in college while in my technical theatre production class: don’t sweat about having too much material to establish setting and timeframe, because you can always add more, and it won’t suffer. It was well-known that this was going to be a period feature, with events set in the original late 19th century London, as originally written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. ![]() Curse Benedict Cumberbatch’s and Martin Freeman’s overly filled work schedules. We’ve been waiting for over a year to see what’s happened to our dear protagonist, and this episode is all we have until 2017, when Season (sorry, Series, damn British terms) 4 is supposed to be dropping. And because of that, we need to savour each morsel that we get of this story. ![]() Unlike so much of the standard fare produced here in North America, the BBC’s Sherlock is an incredibly difficult show to binge-watch the length of each episode (90 minutes, give or take) plus the richness of detail makes it almost a complete sensory overload for viewers.
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