Sherlock

2010 • PBS

4.9

11.8K reviews

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Seasons 1 - 4 & The Abominable Bride episodes (14)

1 A Study in Pink

10/24/10

Season-only

A woman in pink lies dead in a derelict house. She is the fourth in a series of seemingly impossible suicides. DI Lestrade is the best Scotland Yard has got, but even he knows that there's only one man who can help. Elsewhere in London, a war hero, invalided home from Afghanistan, meets a strange but charismatic genius who is looking for a flatmate; Dr John Watson and Sherlock Holmes are meeting for the first time.

2 The Blind Banker

10/31/10

Season-only

A mysterious cipher is being scrawled on the walls around London. The first person to see the cipher is dead within hours of reading it. Sherlock plunges into a world of codes and symbols, consulting with London's best graffiti artists. He soon learns that the city is in the grip a gang of international smugglers, a secret society called the Black Lotus.

3 The Great Game

11/6/10

Season-only

A strange clue in an empty room, a blood-soaked car, a priceless Old Master, a deranged bomber. With the clock ticking, the curtain rises on a battle of wits between Sherlock, John and the shadowy stranger who seems to know all the answers.

4 A Scandal in Belgravia

4/11/13

Season-only

A Royal scandal, a dazzling game of cat and mouse. The seductive Irene Adler is cold, calculating, brilliant. Has Sherlock finally met his match?

5 The Hounds of Bakersville

1/8/12

Season-only

Sherlock's most famous case. A Hound from Hell. A terrified man. But is a monster really stalking Dartmoor? What seems like fantasy in Baker Street is a very different prospect in the ultra-secret army base that looms over the moor...

6 The Reinbach Fall

1/15/12

Season-only

The Tower of London, Pentonville Prison, the Bank of England. All broken into on the same day! Only James Moriarty could do it. But why didn't he steal anything? Soon a darker purpose unfolds. The final battle between the masterminds. And neither can hope to walk away from it.

7 The Empty Hearse

12/31/13

Season-only

Two years after Sherlock's 'death', Dr John Watson has got on with his life. But, with London under threat of a devastating terrorist attack, Sherlock is about to stage his outrageous resurrection. But if he thinks everything will be just as he left it, he's in for a very big surprise...

8 The Sign of Three

1/4/14

Season-only

Sherlock faces his biggest challenge of all - delivering a Best Man's speech on John's wedding day! But all isn't quite as it seems. Mortal danger stalks the reception - and someone might not make it to the happy couple's first dance. Sherlock must thank the bridesmaids, solve the case and stop a killer!

8 Season 3 Episode 1: - The Empty Hearse

12/31/13

Season-only

9 His Last Vow

1/11/14

Season-only

A case of stolen letters leads Sherlock Holmes into a long conflict with Charles Augustus Magnussen, the Napoleon of blackmail, and the one man he truly hates. But how do you tackle a foe who knows the personal weakness of every person of importance in the Western world?

10 The Abominable Bride

1/1/16

Season-only

Victorian special of the crime drama. Holmes and Watson investigate a mysterious ghostly bride prowling the streets with an unslakeable thirst for revenge.

11 The Six Thatchers

12/31/15

Season-only

Sherlock waits to see where Moriarty will make his posthumous move. One mysterious case in particular baffles Scotland Yard -- but Sherlock is more interested in a seemingly trivial detail. Why is someone destroying images of the late Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher? Is there a madman on the loose? Or is there a much darker purpose at work? Something with its roots deep in Mary Watson's past…

12 The Lying Detective

1/8/16

Season-only

Sherlock faces perhaps the most chilling enemy of his long career: the powerful and seemingly unassailable Culverton Smith - a man with a very dark secret indeed.

13 The Final Problem

1/15/16

Season-only

Long buried secrets finally catch up with the Baker Street duo. Someone has been playing a very long game indeed and Sherlock and John Watson face their greatest ever challenge. Is the game finally over?

About this show

Sherlock Holmes is updated for a new generation with Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role and Martin Freeman as Watson. The combination of Sherlock's intellect and Watson's pragmatism helps them forge an unbreakable alliance as they solve a series of baffling crimes together.

Ratings and reviews

4.9

11.8K reviews

J Gallagher

January 20, 2017

Unfortunately the writing in Seasons 3 & 4 is not as good as the first two seasons...the acting is still good though. In a word, Season 4 is contrived. Instead of Sherlock's brain pitted against a criminal mastermind, the later seasons have gone "Hollywood" action thriller, with emotionally distant characters, and tissue thin plots that paint Sherlock & Watson into a corner that only an Ancient Greek Deux Et Machina can lift them out of...literally. It's time to pass the reigns onto a different writer and director.

69 people found this review helpful

Ray Scheffler

September 6, 2017

Promising setups that ALWAYS fall apart as an anticlimax. Teases of better stories to come that never develop into anything. Crimes are solved magically with off screen evidence never presented to the viewer. Poor and erratic attempts at character development. Watson is literally useless beyond the first episode, except as a damsel-in-distress that repeatedly needs rescuing. Plus, there's it's senseless misogyny (Irene Adler - the only character in the original stores to ever best Holmes), homophobia (Moriarty) and lazily written views on mental health (forgotten sister and Moriarty are so smart they're murderously insane). This series was NEVER good. The unaired pilot was the only good episode.

17 people found this review helpful

A Google user

January 12, 2017

I bought the "season" before I knew there was only one episode. It was called season 4! So I paid for a whole season but only got a single episode and honestly, it wasn't that good. I was excited the new episodes were finally coming out but now the new episodes are called season 4 and I have to buy that, as this episode is no longer included! WARNING: Don't buy the whole season of anything in advance until you know how many episodes you are going to get.

23 people found this review helpful

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