

There was, however, a potentially key development in the mystery surrounding Moriarty’s fate (as you’ll recall, Season 3 ended with the presumed-dead Big Bad resurfacing on UK television, boasting. The similarities between the “resurrections” of the titular bride (in the past) and Moriarty (in the present) were not lost on Sherlock. In the end, however, the former case apparently did not end up informing the latter, with Sherlock ultimately echoing Ep Steven Moffat’s earlier assertion that “Moriarty is dead - no question.” I suppose we’ll have to wait until the arrival of the three-episode Season 4 in Jan.

2017 to get a definitive answer to that beguiling question. While season four of the BBC One and MASTERPIECE series, Sherlock, does not go into production until April 2016, a special episode, Sherlock: The Abominable Bride, will air on both BBC One and PBS, January 1, 2016.Perhaps this will reassure long-suffering fans that Sherlock has not been cancelled. The 90-minute period piece’s standout sequence? Watson grilling Sherlock about his lovelorn existence, zeroing in specifically on his partner’s feelings for Irene Adler. Summed up Holmes: “All emotion is abhorrent to me.

