Sherlock
Season 3
3 listed hours · 2010–2017 · BBC/PBS
From the desk
How this season is filed
Holmes in texting-era London: Cumberbatch and Freeman as a global double act, mind palaces, on-screen texts, Moriarty as fandom sport. Gatiss and Moffat's movie-length BBC/PBS events made hiatuses feel like hostage situations. Modern Doyle for the GIF age — appointment mystery with waits that became part of the phenomenon.
TV Flash files Season 3 of Sherlock (2010–2017) on BBC/PBS as a mid listed season (3; 3 of 4) — 3 listed hours, 2014-01-01–2014-01-12 from “The Empty Hearse” (S03E01) to “His Last Vow” (S03E03). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.
Desk essentials in this season
- S03E03 His Last Vow
His Last Vow closes a three-hour season like cinema — mind palaces still the toy, prestige still the event window.
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S03E01 The Empty Hearse
'Just one more miracle, Sherlock. Stop being dead.' Two years after the devastating events of The Reichenbach Fall, Dr John Watson has got on with his life. New horizons, romance and a comforting domestic future beckon. But with London under threat of a huge terrorist attack, Sherlock Holmes is about to rise from the grave with all the theatricality that comes so naturally to him. It's what his best friend wanted more than anything, but for John Watson it might well be a case of 'be careful what you wish for!' If Sherlock thinks everything will be just as he left it, though, he is in for a very big surprise...
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S03E02 The Sign of Three
Sherlock faces his biggest challenge of all - delivering a best man's speech on John's wedding day.
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S03E03 His Last Vow
Sherlock goes after publishing magnate and blackmailer Charles Magnussen, one of the most despicable criminals that he has ever encountered.
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