why cant i watch sherlock the abominable bride

Immediately after, however, we were thrown into an immersive Victorian world, complete with a Doyle-heavy origin story and new-old versions of our favorite characters (with the exception of Vinette Robinson’s Sally, whom I was sad to miss). The episode began with a confirmation of this in the form of a montage showing the viewer a quick timeline of everything that has happened in the series so far, surely a strange choice if the episode wasn’t going to connect to it. In recent days, a low-key change occurred, in which cast and showrunners began teasing a series connection after all. In the early days of publicity, we were told that the story would be a complete one-off, fully Victorian and unrelated to the series arc as a whole.

Mycroft Holmes once asked, long ago, in A Scandal in Belgravia, “What might we deduce about his heart?” This episode answers that question. Instead, it’s about the things the heart believes are true, specifically the heart of Sherlock Holmes. The Abominable Bride is not really an episode about plot, though it has a good one, and it’s not about advancing the overall arc of the series very much. The poem 221B by Vincent Starrett is treasured among Sherlockians for its final line, which reminds young and old that “it is always 1895,” but Sherlock’s first holiday special turns my mind to the lines above even more. Only those things the heart believes are true. England is England yet, for all our fears–

Why cant i watch sherlock the abominable bride