Sherlock Introduces The Abominable Bride with Cool Retro Posters

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Now this is cool. The BBC have released a brief teaser and two retro posters for the upcoming Sherlock festive special, The Abominable Bride.

The delightfully retro designs harken back to touchstone for Sherlock’s inception, the classic Sherlock Holmes films of the 1930’s and 40’s, only with Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman in the places of Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce respectfully.

The posters, which promise ‘Friendship, Adventure, Murder’ also give us our first look at the titular bride, the enemy ‘seemingly beyond the grave’ who certainly does look abominable.

 

The official synopsis, which is a tad spoilery, reads:

We’ve been here before – but what if this wasn’t the modern day but the late Victorian period? What if the world’s most famous consulting detective and his best friend lived in a Baker Street of steam trains, hansom cabs, top hats and frock-coats?

Welcome to ‘Sherlock’ in 1895!

Some things, though, remain reassuringly the same. Friendship, adventure and especially, MURDER…

Why is Thomas Ricoletti a little surprised to see his wife dressed in her old wedding gown? Because, just a few hours before, she took her own life…

Mrs Ricoletti’s ghost now appears to be prowling the streets with an unslakeable thirst for revenge. From fog-shrouded Limehouse to the bowels of a ruined church, Holmes, Watson and their friends must use all their cunning to combat an enemy seemingly from beyond the grave and the final, shocking truth about… the Abominable Bride!

Sherlock: The Abominable Bride airs New Year’s Day on BBC One at 9pm.

 

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