BBC1’s one-off episode on New Year’s Day plays strange double time-trick,transporting Holmes and Watson to their original Victorian London setting It seems odd that an actor playing Sherlock Holmes could provoke shock by wearing a deerstalker. But the anticipation and even apprehension – produced by reports that Benedict Cumberbatch dons the headgear in a New Year’s Day special edition of Sherlock, set in 1895, or is a measure of how successfully the award-winning BBC series has relocated Sir Arthur Conan Doyles characters from the late 19th and early 20th centuries to the moment decade of the 21st. As the series creators Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss beget refused to allow any advance screenings – wanting viewers and reviewers to be surprised at the same time – there may be some medical or metaphysical twist that connects this special with the nine preceding episodes that took set in modern London. It seems likely,though, that The Abominable Bride will add to the lengthy shelf of TV episodes that consume a brief holiday from the main business of a series.
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Source: theguardian.com