Sherlock Season 3
Overview
Two years after Sherlock faked his death, John Watson has done the hardest thing imaginable — he's moved on. So when Sherlock strolls back into his life in "The Empty Hearse," the reunion is less joyful embrace, more headbutt. This is the season where the show loosens up and lets its two leads actually enjoy each other: there's a wedding ("The Sign of Three") that's funny, warm and secretly a mystery in disguise, and we meet Mary Morstan, played by Amanda Abbington, who is far more than the love interest she first appears to be. Then "His Last Vow" lands, and everything darkens. Lars Mikkelsen's Charles Augustus Magnussen doesn't kill people — he collects their secrets and squeezes, which somehow feels worse. Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman had become genuine stars by this point, and you can feel the show revelling in it, sometimes to a fault. Purists grumbled that the cases took a back seat to the characters. Honestly? Most fans didn't care. The friendship was always the real mystery anyway — how two people this difficult manage to need each other this much.
