{"id":119837,"date":"2016-01-05T01:15:19","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T01:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/01\/05\/im-telling-you-2016-television-is-downhill-from\/"},"modified":"2016-01-05T01:15:19","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T01:15:19","slug":"im-telling-you-2016-television-is-downhill-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/01\/05\/im-telling-you-2016-television-is-downhill-from\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"
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I\u2019m telling you \u2013 2016 television is downhill from here on.<\/p>\n

From a negligible half-line in one of the 60 stories by Arthur Conan Doyle about Sherlock Holmes \u2013 the detective mentions \u201cthe case of Ricoletti of the club foot and his abominable wife\u201d as he\u2019s going through old files in The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual \u2013 Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat built 90 minutes of the fastest, funniest, flashiest, cleverest, most demanding, ridiculous and brilliant drama there is likely to be until \u2026 well, possibly until the next Sherlock comes along, sometime in 2017 we are told\u2026<\/p>\n

\nIt was never twins. There were doubles, and doublings-back, and parallels aplenty, there were storylines nesting inside storylines nesting inside storylines, dreams inside realities and out again, there were riffs on the riffs we know from the \u201creal\u201d series \u2013 the detective plucks imaginary cuttings from the air instead of websites and images and Watson is summoned by Holmes via telegram instead of text (\u201cCome at once. If convenient. If not convenient, come all the same\u201d \u2013 because Sherlock is a constant) \u2013 but never twins.<\/p>\n

\nIt was an utterly dazzling display, with bravura performances from the actors \u2013 Cumberbatch and Scott\u2019s first scene together being among the finest they have ever had \u2013 and the plotting (if you stayed with it, and if you didn\u2019t \u2013 no matter. That\u2019s what the rewind button\u2019s for. In the meantime, just marvel at the treasures being poured out before you) was a thing of wonder.<\/p>\n

\n\u2026In the meantime, let\u2019s enjoy the fact that there was a joyous and sumptuous celebration of what television and talent that trusts in itself can do, all tipped out in one gorgeous, unstoppable rush. Watching it was like plunging down the Reichenbach Falls.<\/p>\n

\nMissed you.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Guardian,\u00a0\u201cSherlock\u2019s back and it\u2019s fast, fun, flashy, fantastic,\u201d [x<\/a>]
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I\u2019m telling you \u2013 2016 television is downhill from here on. From a negligible half-line in one of the 60 stories by Arthur Conan Doyle about Sherlock Holmes \u2013 the detective mentions \u201cthe case of Ricoletti of the club foot and his abominable wife\u201d as he\u2019s going through old files in The Adventure of the … <\/p>\n

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