Great lines were in steady supply all round, from personal favourite “Do you ever wonder if there’s something wrong with us?” from the Holmes boys, to Adler’s “brainy is the new sexy”, to Sherlock clearing his apartment of unwanted visitors to remedy there being “too much stupid in the room”. His final deduction is as great an a-ha! moment as there’s been in the series, and just one of many really pleasurable parts of the episode.
Review sherlock holmes season 3 episode 2 code#
The phone proves to be a source of some consternation to Sherlock, tasked with unlocking its code while unlocking the secrets of its inscrutable owner, Ms Adler. Instead of a fully clothed cabinet photograph, it’s now a set of compromising images of a royal and a lesbian dominatrix stored on a smart phone. The blackmail photo of A Scandal in Bohemia, the Conan Doyle story from which the episode takes its inspiration, has been sexed up some. For a programme largely made up of people talking, tonight’s episode packed in rogue CIA agents, head-butts, fights in alleyways, a lovely bit of defenestration, and lots of guns.
Underneath the coat, the deduction, and the cheekbones, is Sherlock a sexual animal? Is that extraordinary brain always the organ he thinks with? Is he capable of love?īefore we come to all that, A Scandal in Belgravia served up not a small amount of action. Pulver’s turn as Adler ups the show’s raunch quota and opens the door to some essential questions about Sherlock. It’s a game entry to an already well-loved cast, and as the woman who beat Sherlock Holmes in more ways than one, an appearance which won’t be forgotten. The definite article is richly deserved in the case of Pulver, who pulls off the uncanny trick of making Adler seem at once vulnerable and untouchable in the episode. Scott’s a fine and exciting choice for Moriarty, though he’s eclipsed in this opening episode by another recent addition to the cast, Lara Pulver as the woman: Irene Adler.
While we’re on the subject of agility, Andrew Scott’s switch from chilling to flustered and back to psycho in a few lines should do plenty to allay the fears of anyone unconvinced by his appearance at the end of the last series.
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