Knowing, ultimately, that he really is dead (that it’s not a trick on Sherlock) made his reappearance feel more like a trick on us, and one that won’t hold up well on rewatching. Moriarty is best used sparingly, be it as a mastermind or a spectre, and The Abominable Bride was much too indulgent with his presence.
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By killing him off (which perhaps happened too soon), the series was left without its principal villain and foil. I will be the first to stand in praise of Andrew Scott’s weird and wonderful portrayal of Professor Moriarty, but the show has made him into something of an albatross. And part of it may have been because of its truncated timeline, due to the show’s other ghost. Still, the real sin of The Abominable Bride was that it just wasn’t a particularly good case.
Though Mycroft and Sherlock both explain away the women’s killer intentions (and successes) as “progress,” one can’t help but be disappointed by the implications. As a mysterious, cloaked figure dressed in black, she was the dark shadow of the murderous Bride dressed in white, and the episode’s heavy-handed themes of gender inequality set the stage for … what exactly? A feminist death cult? The show also gave a few moments to some other memorable cast from the past, like Anderson ( Jonathan Aris) and Irene Adler ( Lara Pulver, in a locket photo), though only in passing.Īll of this was much more fun than the actual case, the solution of which was telegraphed fairly early through Mary’s ( Amanda Abbington) arrival at Sherlock’s flat. Hudson ( Una Stubbs), though, remained her timeless self, and Lestrade ( Rupert Graves) didn’t change much either. Mycroft (Gatiss), as some sort of suicidal balloon, was also a silly and fun changeup (and more like the original stories), as was the usually quiet and retiring Molly Hooper ( Louise Brealey) turning up as a curt and confident crossdresser. Back in the 1880s, with Watson as the storyteller and Sherlock Holmes sporting the iconic deerstalker, there were some fun twists on the Sherlock-Watson origin story from this iteration’s premiere (all the way to the mirrored, vintage title sequence). At the start, The Abominable Bride was absolutely delightful as an alt-history, meta-infused version of the Sherlock we know and love.
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