While more recent years have seen a rise in so-called "prestige television," many of the shows that helped to coin that term-like The Sopranos, The Wire, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Boardwalk Empire, and *Game of Thrones *-have concluded their runs or are headed to the series finales. Why You Should Binge: Shows like Sherlock don’t come around as often as they should-or at least as often as we wish they did. The scene in which he attempts to propose is worth the price of your Netflix subscription. He has even met a woman, Mary, who he wants to marry. Season 3: Episode 1, "The Empty Hearse" Season 3 picks up two years after where Season 2 left off, and shows how Watson has moved on with his life in the wake of the last episode’s life-or-death decision.
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It’s full of some of the series’ best moments. For many viewers, the third season finale seemed like it could have been a series finale, as Sherlock walks into a trap set by Moriarty and ends the episode with having to make a life-or-death decision, as Watson helplessly watches from afar. With a cast and crew that are famously busy working on other projects, new episodes are shot when time and schedules allow, which means that there can be large gaps between seasons, and regular questions as to whether the show is coming back at all. Season 2: Episode 3, "The Reichenbach Fall" There’s always a bit of mystery surrounding Sherlock-and not just in its plot lines. Sherlock, who has the uncanny ability to read everyone he meets like a book-literally, the show uses graphics to point out the little things he sees that allow him to deduce certain truths about the people around him-he’s a total blank when it comes to Adler. Season 2: Episode 1, "A Scandal in Belgravia" If there’s one word no one would ever use to describe Sherlock Holmes, as portrayed by Cumberbatch, it’s “speechless.” Yet that’s exactly how he finds himself when he’s dispatched by Buckingham Palace to help save an unnamed royal from scandal by retrieving some compromising photos from Irene Adler, a notorious dominatrix, who Sherlock refers to as "The Woman." What Sherlock sees as a quick payday turns into a game of wits when he’s taken aback not just by Adler’s beauty-or the fact that she meets him in the nude, in order to throw him off balance-but that she’s equally brilliant. ( Sherlock also loves to tease the idea that Holmes and Watson were more than just platonic friends, which is a running joke throughout the series.) In between it all, Sherlock helps to investigate a series of purported suicides, which actually turn out to be something quite different. It introduces us to Sherlock and Watson, details their first meeting and awkward getting-to-know-you phase, and ends with seeing them on the road to an actual friendship.
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Season 1: Episode 1, "A Study in Pink" Though the ending of the series premiere is open-ended and leaves some questions to be answered, “A Study in Pink” could have easily run as a one-off television movie and left viewers completely satisfied. But it doesn’t go so well for him, as he and his date are kidnapped when he’s mistaken for Sherlock, who has unwittingly become the target of a Chinese smuggling ring. We get to learn more about who Sherlock and Watson are as people-and see Watson begin his life as a kinda sorta ladies’ man. Season 1: Episode 2, "The Blind Banker" After a stunning series premiere, the bar was set pretty high for *Sherlock'*s second episode, and it didn’t quite deliver. Why would you want to miss one? But if you must. Seasons/Episodes You Can Skip: There are only 10 episodes. Of course, it helps that as the series has continued we’ve seen Sherlock soften-however slightly-in certain ways, making viewers anxious to keep digging further below the surface to see what’s there. But it's in the way that the series' creators illustrate that-using special effects to provide us with a glimpse into Sherlock’s mind-that make us able to empathize with him. Yes, he's almost universally despised by those he meets and regularly acts in manner that is more akin to an emotionless robot than a flesh-and-blood human being. Though it's Sherlock's interactions with (and, some might say, reliance on) Watson that make the show tick, it's Benedict Cumberbatch's seemingly effortless portrayal of the quirky consulting detective that keeps viewers coming back. Best Character to Follow: This one really does seem elementary: Sherlock Holmes all the way.