# sherlock series 3 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 18, 2013, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherlock-series-3/653312 "2013-03-18T23:15:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![cuberdon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/45deac/32.png) [@cuberdon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cuberdon)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2013, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherlock-series-3/653312/61 "2013-04-12T16:08:27Z")
> [@rocking\_chair](#): > > cuberdon, let us know what you think of the series. always fun to hear from someone seeing it for the first time. Ok, watched the second episode last night. I generally like the writing, but if “SH is distracted by his own massive brain at a crucial moment” turns out to be a recurrent trope, it’s already annoying. Overall, I do like BBC tv, it’s so much more intelligent than American television. \ Also, the actor playing the cabbie in episode 1 played the bad guy in George Gently episode 1. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2013, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherlock-series-3/653312/62 "2013-04-12T16:41:07Z")
epi 2 is considered the weakest of the first three. although the more times you watch it, the better it gets. also you pick up on all sorts of fine details that cumberbatch and freeman put into their characters. s&j are settling into being flatmates. john is starting to get his eye rolling to a fine art. the consulting detective business is starting to take off. on to epi. 3! the cabbie in epi. 1 is the devil himself! ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2013, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherlock-series-3/653312/63 "2013-04-12T17:25:59Z")
I see on IMDB that the second episode of the third season has now been named: _The Sign of Three_ IIRC, the Doyle story from which this is derived (_The Sign of Four_), is the one which provides Watson his wife. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherlock-series-3/653312/64 "2013-04-14T12:45:40Z")
i believe they may have let something slip during filmimg yest. [http://mrs-freebatchof221bbakerstreet.tumblr.com/image/47888110112](http://mrs-freebatchof221bbakerstreet.tumblr.com/image/47888110112) ah ha!!! the poppins manuever! ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2013, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherlock-series-3/653312/65 "2013-07-20T17:26:09Z")
with summer holiday coming to an end, episode 3 will begin filming soon. mark gatiss, stephen moffat, and sue vertue had fun at san diego. [http://collider.com/comic-con-sherlock-panel-recap/](http://collider.com/comic-con-sherlock-panel-recap/) a clip from episode 2 was shown that is the “wedding” episode. a very funny scene with sherlock, john, and an eyeball. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/UNKs_Sc6PaM/maxresdefault.jpg "Sherlock SDCC Panel - July 18 2013") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNKs_Sc6PaM) ["Sherlock" Conversation with the Cast & Creators - Nerd HQ (2013) HD - Steven Moffat - YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUq1lypgu2M) this one doesn’t start right in there is a few minutes delay. try starting at 7:43, that should get you to the beginning. just half a year more! ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2013, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherlock-series-3/653312/66 "2013-07-20T18:34:17Z")
> [@rocking\_chair](#): > > with summer holiday coming to an end, episode 3 will begin filming soon. > > mark gatiss, stephen moffat, and sue vertue had fun at san diego. [http://collider.com/comic-con-sherlock-panel-recap/](http://collider.com/comic-con-sherlock-panel-recap/) > > a clip from episode 2 was shown that is the “wedding” episode. a very funny scene with sherlock, john, and an eyeball. > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNKs\_Sc6PaM](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNKs_Sc6PaM) > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUq1lypgu2M](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUq1lypgu2M) this one doesn’t start right in there is a few minutes delay. try starting at 7:43, that should get you to the beginning. > > just half a year more! Half a year!!! Sounds like forever! ---
**Author:** ![gonzoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@gonzoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzoron)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2013, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherlock-series-3/653312/67 "2013-07-22T17:23:00Z")
Anyone know the usual lag between airing and netflix? My wife and I just binged the show that way, and are looking forward to more. I’m assuming there’s some sort of body double action going on. Remember that the little girl freaked out upon seeing Sherlock. That was never explained as far as I could tell. I bet Moriarty had a mock-Sherlock of some sort, and that’s who died. Molly’s assistance is no doubt in faking the autopsy report. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2013, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherlock-series-3/653312/68 "2013-07-23T00:39:37Z")
well, mr cumberbatch did do an amusing video for comic con where he “explains” surviving the fall. it involved plush monkeys, cabbage, tea, and a helo. i’m not sure how long the lag on netflix. mostly people go for the dvd as soon as it goes on sale in the uk, blue ray mostly. ---
**Author:** ![HenryGale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b782af/32.png) [@HenryGale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HenryGale)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2013, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherlock-series-3/653312/69 "2013-07-27T05:47:10Z")
> [@Lasciel](#): > > I’m glad someone else shares my theory at least. My husband and my entire friend group think that Sherlock guilted Molly into providing a body double from the morgue, and Mycroft into surgically altering the face to match. While I suppose that’s possible, I like our theory better - more simple, more elegant, more immediate. > > I honestly don’t know what I’m going to do with myself until it comes out. I might actually explode from impatience. I’ll throw in my theory. . Yes.. there has to be a body from Molly.. he specifically sought out her help. But no surgery from Mycroft. Watson sees the corpse as Sherlock because the bicyclist who knocked him over dosed him with some of the hallucinogenic from the Baskerville episode. ---
**Author:** ![Lasciel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e79b87/32.png) [@Lasciel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lasciel)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2013, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherlock-series-3/653312/70 "2013-07-27T14:48:26Z")
> [@HenryGale](#): > > I’ll throw in my theory. . > > Yes.. there has to be a body from Molly.. he specifically sought out her help. But no surgery from Mycroft. Watson sees the corpse as Sherlock because the bicyclist who knocked him over dosed him with some of the hallucinogenic from the Baskerville episode. oooooh, I like that. I like that a lot. I do agree that part of the incident is intentional, and necessary to the ruse. I do still think that the blood-pressure ball has something to do with it, but I am also open to the idea that could be a red herring. ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherlock-series-3/653312/71 "2013-08-01T00:39:43Z")
I read today that they’re going to be airing the first episode in Britain in October. I can’t remember the exact date. No official trailer out yet, drat it. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherlock-series-3/653312/72 "2013-08-01T16:41:29Z")
lars mikkelsen is the new villian! > **[The King of Blackmailers! Benedict Cumberbatch returns to Sherlock set to...](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2382444/Benedict-Cumberbatch-returns-Sherlock-set-film-scenes-Lars-Mikkelsens-new-villain.html?ico=tvshowbiz%5Eheadlines)** > > He's been enjoying the bachelor life of late, but Benedict Cumberbatch was back filming scenes for Sherlock on Wednesday, where he faced off against a new foe. nice to see danish actors getting good roles. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherlock-series-3/653312/73 "2013-08-01T16:52:37Z")
> [@Lissla\_Lissar](#): > > I read today that they’re going to be airing the first episode in Britain in October. I can’t remember the exact date. No official trailer out yet, drat it. Where did you read it? Please! ---
**Author:** ![BrokenBriton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@BrokenBriton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrokenBriton)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherlock-series-3/653312/74 "2013-08-01T17:19:29Z")
Any news and it would be here - the link to Sherlock at Comic-Con is pretty cool: > **[Showbiz, entertainment and media news](https://www.digitalspy.com/sherlock/)** > > Entertainment news about the biggest TV shows, films and celebrities, updated around the clock. ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherlock-series-3/653312/75 "2013-08-01T18:51:44Z")
[Over here.](http://screenrant.com/sherlock-season-3-premiere-spoilers-fall-2013/) ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherlock-series-3/653312/76 "2013-08-01T18:56:52Z")
> [@Lissla\_Lissar](#): > > [Over here.](http://screenrant.com/sherlock-season-3-premiere-spoilers-fall-2013/) Dude. That was published almost a year ago, and was just speculation. As of SDCC two weeks ago, Moffatt (who lies so much his pants are permanently on fire) said that the dates had not been set, other than late-2013-in-UK/Early 2014-in-US… ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherlock-series-3/653312/77 "2013-08-01T19:01:59Z")
Also it makes me very happy that they’re tentatively confirming season four. At least, Benedict Cumberbatch said that he and Martin Freeman are signed on for season four, which is pretty definite. Drat. Sorry, didn’t notice the date. Oh, well- late this year or early next. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherlock-series-3/653312/78 "2013-08-01T20:00:59Z")
[Recent confirmation of Series 4](http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-07-19/cumberbatch-and-freeman-confirmed-for-sherlock-series-4-at-san-diego-comic-con): > [@](#): > > Following on from Benedict Cumberbatch letting slip to [RadioTimes.com](http://RadioTimes.com) earlier this year that he had signed up for series four of Sherlock, producer Sue Vertue has given the firmest confirmation yet that the next series won’t be the show’s last. > > Speaking at San Diego Comic Con alongside co-creators Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, the producer revealed – to huge applause - that Cumberbatch and co-star Martin Freeman have been “optioned” for series four Most guesses have placed the UK premiere of Series 3 at the end of this year. The BBC (& other UK networks) like to schedule “important” shows over the Holidays. Cumberbatch has been heard to wish the US premiere could be simultaneous. Or, at least, not delayed for months & months. During which time many US fans have found ways, foul & fair, to see the show. (The DVD’s go on sale at [Amazon.UK](http://Amazon.UK) just after the end of the very brief series & many of us own all-region players.) That date is up to PBS… ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2013, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherlock-series-3/653312/79 "2013-08-02T22:21:57Z")
AAAAAHHHH! Trailer up on youtube - brief and tantalizing. [John’s got a moustache](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llGXWICGsD4&feature=youtu.be)! ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2013, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherlock-series-3/653312/80 "2013-08-02T22:34:58Z")
From the Sherlockology tumblr, the closest thing there is to an official BBC Sherlock tumblr: > [@](#): > > So, what did you think about the first trailer for Sherlock Series Three? > > The teaser, featuring Una Stubbs, Rupert Graves, Mark Gatiss, Louise Brealey, Martin Freeman and Benedict Cumberbatch runs for 25 seconds but features no actual footage from the third series itself. > > It is instead an original creation by director Jason Thomson of Red Bee Media, who has created numerous original promotional trailers for the BBC. That said, it does hint at the major dramatic crux of the start of the third series - the inevitable reunion of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, after Sherlock faked his death at the conclusion of The Reichenbach Fall. > > And yes, that is a striking new look for John too, don’t you think? > > As you may notice, the trailer also carries no airdate for Sherlock Series Three in the UK. While the rough area that Sherlock may be broadcast in will become clearer in the months ahead, the actual definite date cannot be set until the completed episodes have been delivered to the BBC by Hartswood Films, so at the moment any dates you see online continue to be mere speculation. Two things: 1. John’s moustache!!! 2. Lestrade’s hair!!! 3. The look on Sherlock’s face as he walks into the restaurant. Afraid, and hopeful, and just so…yeah. The man Sherlock was back in S1E1 would not have worn that face. He wouldn’t have been capable of _caring_ that much what someone thought. I am so very looking forward to this show. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherlock-series-3/653312.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherlock-series-3/653312.md?page=5)