Sherlock season 2 episode 3 series#

Thus the вЂfallвЂ™ of the episodeвЂ™s title became both a literal plunge to his death and the figurative fall of HolmesвЂ™ reputation. The image nodded to the past versions of Holmes weвЂ™ve seen duelling with Moriarty against the backdrop of those Alpine falls, but as ever in Sherlock, was used to forge something new.ДЄs the case which made HolmesвЂ™ name, the word Reichenbach had become indissociable from Holmes himself, now known popularly as the Reichenbach hero. The episodeвЂ™s title received an early mention as the camera floated past TurnerвЂ™s The Great Falls of the Reichenbach, a stolen painting Holmes was being congratulated for having recovered. After the emotional pre-credits scene, things kicked off apace with a brisk, comic montage of SherlockвЂ™s rise to celebrity before the action began proper. Moriarty takes advantage of his youth and deceptive lack of guile to act the gay IT technician or out-of-work childrenвЂ™s TV presenter one minute, then to glower with insanity and threaten to turn people into shoes the next. ScottвЂ™s Moriarty is brilliantly menacing, and all the more so because heвЂ™s cast against physical type.

Sherlock season 2 episode 3 series#

ThatвЂ™s not a given though, especially if series 3 follows the chronology-shifting example set by this episode. The Reichenbach Fall is by far the most weвЂ™ve seen of Moriarty, and judging from that surprise exit, likely to be the last we see of him too. Which leaves us with the third side of the triangle: Andrew Scott as Jim Moriarty. Slipping between cold alien intellect and boyish smirk, delivering that gloriously Old Testament rooftop speech about shaking hands in hell, then bidding a bitterly charged farewell to Watson, this was comfortably CumberbatchвЂ™s show-best performance. Benedict Cumberbatch too, deserves a ton of praise for this weekвЂ™s rattled, fearful, sad Sherlock.