The wait is almost over! Sherlock Series 4!

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So excited! I couldn't wait for tomorrow to start a thread

My telly is too small to see faces properly so I'd didn't realise therapist woman was wig lady until it unravelled.

Oh I see thank you. Who is Sherringford?

Sherringford was not strictly in the original Sherlock books although alluded to. Sherringford was the name Sherlock was going to be called by ACD.

Yesss that was great. Back on form! Cumbersnatch is brilliant, and freeman is getting really sexy in his middle age. Euros is Sheerinford then. Just fast paced enough to need a couple more watches to pick it all up, as Sherlock should be.

Here's some info on the actress, Sian Brooke:

www.radiotimes.com/news/2017-01-08/who-plays-sherlocks-euros-holmes

Sherlock acknowledged Mary when they left, and that made it ludicrous. If dead people can just drop by for a chat Moriarty and Magnussen may as well drop in for lunch next week.

A thought has occurred to me: at the end of Series 3 Mycroft says "an East wind is blowing" (or similar) Was that just Gatiss/Moffat dropping a hint or was it a deliberate code warning between Mycroft and Sherlock?

I KNEW Sherrinford was going to be female!

Didn't know it was going to be bus lady / fake therapist mind. But it was obvious that something was up, because no therapist casually asks after a patient's friends and family like that.

Great episode. Felt more like one of those case-based episodes from s1-2. Obviously highly influenced by Savile - hiding in plain sight, keys to the hospital, staff knew what he was up to, favourite room was the morgue. Quite chillingly close, actually. And not a reference that will be picked up by viewers outside the UK, I expect.

Liked Mary loads more now she's dead. The way she provided clarity to John was kind of a narrative cliche but quite fun to watch.

Johnlockers on Tumblr losing their shit over the hug

He was acknowledging that Watson was still acknowledging her.

Confused here - only two of the actresses were the same surely? Wasn't the therapist disguising herself as Toby's daughter, and also the bus girl? She couldn't have been Toby's real daughter as well. Not as she is Sherlock's sister!

Sherlock acknowledged Mary when they left, and that made it ludicrous. If dead people can just drop by for a chat Moriarty and Magnussen may as well drop in for lunch next week

I took that to mean that Sherlock knew that John was "seeing" Mary (John spoke directly to "Mary" during that scene after all) not that Sherlock himself could also see Mary. He obviously couldn't.

Exactly, John was talking as if Mary was in the room ("I cheated on YOU", not "I cheated on HER"). Sherlock was just acknowledging that, and the hat thing has been a running joke for a long time ("You're Sherlock Holmes: wear the damn hat!").

Clawdy, but "the therapist" was a disguise as well - she took out contact lenses to "reveal" herself. She wasn't the real daughter, she just disguised herself to look enough like her to convince the smacked up Sherlock.

As a side note - bloody loved Mrs H in tonight's ep. Brilliant 😄

Mrs Hudson was brilliant!

I loved it, much better than last week.

Wondering why the text came through? If John didn't know it was his birthday then how would Irene Adler? Could she have been told by Sherringford?

How long was the real therapist meant to have been in the airing cupboard? Surely her other patients etc would be missing her or the neighbours notice a stranger letting themselves in?

Otherwise, a much better episode. Also prefer Mary now she's dead. Loved the Irene mention.

Even high as a kite (and then some) there is no way Sherlock could have spent a whole evening with his sister and not known it was her (or not suspected something was very wrong with the woman at the least).

Sure, she had contacts in, and spoke in a different accent, but really?! Not noticing the disguise, not noticing his own relative, when he was able to notice and control so many other thing said while off his face?

Bollocks.

I think the suggestion us that either Sherlock is very close to Irene Adler, or she's smart enough to have found the information for herself.

Poor dead therapist.

And yes, Mrs Hudson was a total badass!

I bet Irene somehow figured out when it was Sherlock's birthday and texts him once a year. It was her style, always asking him out for dinner, which he'd ignore. It's funny that it's still going on. Little bit of harmless fan service.

Mrs Hudson is what the kids call a BAMF.

Absolutely. Mrs H is the best.

If the fake Toby's daughter left that piece of paper with Sherlock - how did she get hold of it??