![]() The case at the center of it is both solidly constructed and entertaining (and, more important, it leaves a number of unfinished strands to follow up and expand on), but the majority of the episode is devoted to the emotional fallout of the season-two finale. Maybe that’s why “The Empty Hearse” seems like an especially memorable and important episode of Sherlock. But boy, there’s a lot of laughs to be had when Sherlock can’t quite bring himself to admit there was a cruel element to it all. So, you can’t trick poor Watson (even if it was to save his life) for two full years, letting him mourn, changing him through the course of days, and then just laugh it off. ![]() Sherlock has always been a fine mixture of suspense, wit and thrills that has chosen to keep the warm and rewarding relationship between the two central characters at a distance from sappiness, while at the same time proving every episode that theirs is a friendship beyond the norm. That’s a tough tone to pull off because poor Watson, long-suffering in many ways as he works with the difficult genius Sherlock Holmes, would be understandably angry first and relieved second, but the trick is to not sell short the first emotion, because the duo’s relationship is the absolute core of this series. The first episode of season three - “The Empty Hearse,” written by Gatiss - absolutely nails a fine balancing act in Watson’s reaction to Sherlock being alive (after being presumably dead for two years) by making the scenes play out with a mixture of anger and comedy. What remains to be revealed is how “the fall” was pulled off and, more important, the emotional toll it took on Watson. But of course Holmes didn’t die - you don’t kill the golden goose, silly. The biggest of those was last season’s apparent death of Holmes, which was an elaborate ruse to one-up nemesis Jim Moriarty ( Andrew Scott). It probably doesn’t hurt that the seasons are so short, three 90-minute mini-movies each - with the first two seasons ended in cliff-hangers. PHOTOS: ‘Sherlock’: 10 Stills From Season 3 ![]() Benedict Cumberbatch Joins Survival Film 'The End We Start From,' Starring Jodie Comer ![]()
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