After three long years, fans of the BBC One's popular detective series, Sherlock, will finally watch its fourth season on January 2017. Filming has already gone underway. The show's producers promise that this new series of episodes will take Sherlock Holmes (Benedict Cumberbatch) and Dr. John Watson (Martin Freeman) into a very disturbing territory that its millions of viewers will find "bloody frightening."
Preparations for filming have already been set into motion. According to Hypable, the show's set designer, Arwel Wyn Jones, has been enthralling his Tweeter followers with snap shots of the new ongoing set construction. Producer and creative force Steven Moffat finished writing the scripts only a few months ago, and the actual filming for the first three episodes will commence this spring.
Moffat admits that his work on Doctor Who, which had tied him up for some time, was one of reasons for season four's delay. Another reason are the stars' hectic schedules. Freeman was busy with The Hobbit movie trilogy, while Cumberbatch was weaving his own magic in the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Dr. Strange.
Moffat warns that in the new season, London's detective dynamic duo will have to deal with the consequences of past actions. While audiences can expect the show's standard winning mix of mystery and excitement, there are twists and turns that will be "bloody frightening." Moffat elaborates, "Chickens come home to roost ... there's a sense of things coming back to bite you."
One of those consequences is Janine, Sherlock's lost love interest in season 2. The ingenious lady who played, betrayed, and was finally outwitted by Holmes, was last seen hiding in an Eastern European country. Movie News Guide says that actress Irene Adler, who played Janine, teased fans in an interview, saying they have not seen the last of her.
Breathecast also reports an imminent return of James Moriarty, Sherlock's brilliant archenemy who killed himself in season 2 to frame him for murder. If Sherlock lived through a suicidal fall from a building, so can Moriarty.
Moffat, however, would neither confirm nor deny any of these rumors. Like all Sherlock Holmes mysteries, we would have to wait for a few more months to find out.
