The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

This was most clever and entertaining episode. I absolutely love this interpretation of Sherlock Holmes. I also enjoyed they way the writers managed to go back and fourth in time. The excellent acting of Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman in these roles makes this one of the best programs to watch.The writing is terrific with a plot that had more ups and downs than a mountain range, more ins and outs than a maze and more twists and turns than a dozen corkscrews, in short it was a triumph. Starting with a Victorian-era impossible murder with an even more impossible murderer, guest appearances by all the previous supporting cast including a massively-bloated Mycroft, surely a homage to Sydney Greenstreet and the return of the master-criminal we've all missed, a premonition of another husband-slaying in a big old house after dark, a recreation of the real Reichenbach Fall climax of yore, an ingenious denouement anticipating female suffrage years later but perhaps the best thing of all was the promise of a new series to come. BRAVO!!!

Although a lot of people may not like this episode or find it boring, seriously this is one of the best episodes in the series if not the best. And trust me you never like it from the first time you watch it, you gotta watch it again 2 or 3 times. Every time you watch it again you begin to lock the chains and find the missing leads you failed to understood or the things you find boring. In the First time you watch it you may find it boring and scary, but when i watch it now all i i do is laugh hard duo to Watson's Personality and just keeping amazed about the brilliance of the episode directing. Everybody really watch it again this episode is pure gold and every single word is connected to the before and lots lots of quotes are taken from the other episodes. WATCH IT AGAIN, DO IT

I loved the going back and forth The Abominable Bride, with Sherlock's mind palace a major plot device in this latest Sherlock instalment, which debuted in the UK on Friday, 1 January 2016. In the UK there's a tradition for Christmas specials this follows in that fine tradition. You may wonder about holidays and ratings, but in the UK a relatively large number of people stay at home during the Christmas season and tune into Dr Who or other Christmas specials (although the cheap price air tickets to Greece and other spots probably sees more British folk spend the Christmas break in sunnier spots).

Sherlock never fails to amaze me, season after season Sherlock's standards are higher and higher.I watched The Abominable Bride with perception that its going to be a unique take towards the Victorian era or version of Sherlock, Sherlock and Watson will solve some crimes in old age that's it, that's how perceived it.But while talking to Moriarty all of a sudden Sherlock shakes up and the private jet lands and what the creators of Sherlock has done is they connected it with the last episode of Sherlock. Sherlock is in his Mind Palace or dreaming while high on drugs try to solve how Moriarty came back from dead.I think I got this amazing shock after a very long time, it was even better than Hans Solo getting killed. That was tragic and this is just amazing.I just want to congratulate the creators, writers and execution of Sherlock, The Abominable Bride is a masterpiece and I have already watched it 4 times.