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The Holmes just keep on coming. Review by Brandon Wolfe As predicted, the rift between Sherlock and John was indeed short-lived. It had to be, of course, since the season finale is next week. And that’s ultimately what “The Lying Detective” has as its endgame, repairing that pivotal relationship in the wake of Mary Watson’s death. However, the episode has a lot else on its mind peripherally, some good, some less so. As with any episode of Sherlock , it’s a grab-bag of overstuffed delight mixed with curious unevenness. John has taken to seeing a therapist to cope with Mary’s death, keeping to himself that he’s regularly having conversations with his deceased wife within the confines of his grief-stricken head. Sherlock, meanwhile, has fallen hard into illicit substances, leading him to act more erratically than ever before. The sleuth has a new plaything in the form of obnoxious British television personality Culverton Smith (Toby Jones, chewing up the scenery with ghastly Austin P

The show is back and the game is on. Review by Brandon Wolfe With the exception of HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm (currently winding down a six-year dry spell), no series on television resurfaces as infrequently as the BBC’s Sherlock . Due to the bustling Hollywood careers of leads Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, the stars need to perfectly align for another season of the detective drama to come to fruition, resulting in a three-year gulf between seasons (broken up only by last year’s trifling one-off " The Abominable Bride "). For a series whose seasons only run a scant three episodes (albeit each 90 minutes long), this leads to an irregularity comparable less to other television series than to Halley’s Comet. Sherlock is the star that burns twice as bright and an eighth as long. Get it while you can because it won’t be around for long, and its return is far off on the horizon, if it arrives at all. “The Six Thatchers,” the fourth season premiere (and only the e

Does Geek Fuel's June release fulfill your love of geek? Read on to find out! Review by Matt Cummings After May's very good (but not great) Explorers theme - sporting great Nathan Drake and Westeros gear but a lame GF pint glass, we expected June to finally be the month in which the company achieved a rightful place at the sub box subsctiption table. Unfortunately, a hodge-podge of selections pushes GF right out of legitimacy once again. Before diving in, let's review the details: The cost for a Month to Month is $17.90, $16.90/month for a 3-month subscription, $15.90/month for a 6-month tour and just $13.90/month for a one-year subscription. Shipping $6.00 to the US, Canada, and at least a few other countries. We use QUALITY and TIMING to base our reviews, so let's see how this box stands up. As always, we'll end our review with some additional thoughts after the unboxing: Winners As you can see, June offers very little in the way of

The eternally dormant series goes back in time. Review by Brandon Wolfe The increasing high-profile ubiquity of Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman has been hard on poor Sherlock . The BBC detective series is going on six years from its debut in 2010 and has only aired a measly nine episodes over the course of three seasons. So rigorous are the demands of the stars’ careers (including major upcoming Marvel gigs for both Cumberbatch and Freeman ) that their schedules only allowed for a single episode to be produced within the past year, with a full fourth season still far off on the horizon. That special, Sherlock: The Abominable Bride , is going to have to tide us over for awhile before we settle back into another arduously long wait, the natural state for Sherlock fans. The Abominable Bride sets itself up as an alternate-universe what-if, a glimpse at what this modernized incarnation of the Sherlock Holmes mythos would look like played straight and restored to Arthur Conan

Season 3's score continues to solve the mystery behind this modern series masterpiece. Review by Matt Cummings Unless you've lived under a television rock for the past three years, you probably know all about the BBC series Sherlock . Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, these 90-minute, three-episode arcs have done nothing less than solidify each actor's standing as top-tier talent. Central to the success of the show is the soundtrack by Composers David Arnold and Michael Price. Season 3's score is out now, and the results continue to unravel the mystery of this now iconic series. Set in modern-day London, Sherlock Holmes (Cumberbatch) and John Watson (Freeman) use their quirky chemistry to solve a series of crimes using Sherlock's brilliant but tattered mind and Watson's medical prowess. Season 2 witnessed the apparent death of Sherlock, but after two years he returns to find Watson having moved on. Faced with the loss of his teamma

We learn new details about the upcoming BBC episode. Story by Matt Cummings For those who haven't yet checked out the BBC series Sherlock , it's probably time you did. The series which cemented Actors Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman as superstars follows Sherlock Holmes on modernized adaptations of the books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The latest episode, tentatively titled The Christmas Special , now features the clip below. As you can see, show co-runner Stephen Moffat has taken Watson and Holmes back to Victorian England with Watson donning quite a mustache. Check out the video and read more afterwards: It's clear that the team has missed a step since exiting season 3 , with Cumberbatch wearing the hat and cape quite well. Freeman's mustache, the fun bantering with Mrs. Hudson (Una Stubbs), and Cumberbatch's "That’s the trouble with dismembered country squires: they’re notoriously difficult to schedule” reminds us why this short ser

Writer M. R. Carey has a portfolio that takes in a wealth of comic-books, including Lucifer for DC Vertigo and X-Men and Fantastic Four for Marvel, as well as a sci-fi horror novel, The Girl With All The Gifts . It’s the latter that today’s news concerns: it’s being adapted for the big screen as She Who Brings Gifts with Gemma Arterton, Glenn Close and Paddy Considine all aboard. Director Colm McCarthy , best known for his TV work on Sherlock and Peaky Blinders , has tapped up the trio to inhabit a world ravaged by an infection, Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, that’s reduced a large chunk of humanity to ravenous creatures called 'Hungries’. The surviving uninfected have built safe havens to avoid being turned into hungries canapé. One of them, ten-year-old Melanie, has been captured and is being studied by captors intrigued by her genius-level IQ. Runs the enigmatic synopsis: "Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her,

Read on for the ten best and worst television shows of 2014 2014 TV Winners and Losers by Brandon Wolfe 2014 was a surprisingly great year for television, with an unusually large crop of incredible new series debuting alongside a handful of rejuvenated returning favorites. But as with everything, you take the good with the bad, and there was still plenty of bad this year. Here are my picks for TV’s ten biggest winners and losers of 2014. Winners 1. Fargo (FX) The year’s biggest surprise. There was no reason to expect anything from Noah Hawley’s ten-episode interpretation of the Coen Brothers classic. It seemed like the most thankless of tasks; at its best, it could only wither in the shadow of the film. But the show’s best turned out to be much better than anyone could have guessed, matching the humor and tone of the film while staking out its own unique ground. It helped that it was impeccably cast. The very British Martin Freeman disappears completely into the skin (and