So far, this has been an extraordinary season of Sherlock, in the most literal sense. The ‘case of the week’ format hasn’t been so much moved aside as fired into orbit, or, perhaps, locked at the bottom of a lit bonfire. We’ve had an entire episode dealing with Sherlock fitting back in to London even …
The Empty Hearse was one of the most audacious pieces of TV in years. It bravely chose to give viewers three different solutions to Holmes’ survival of ‘The Reichenbach Fall’, all just about plausible. It even, rather splendidly, teased us with a further ten possibilities. The most important question in the history of the series …
So I started off planning to write my short, thousand or so word, piece about the three best movies I saw this year. The plan was to throw in a couple of honourable mentions and, well…there are a lot of them.