Mystical Magick

It’s been well over a year since Gatiss and Moffat’s Sherlock, a modern-day adaptation of the classic stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, first graced our tv screens and since we last saw Sherlock and Watson in a potentially deadly standoff with criminal mastermind Moriarty.

But the season premiere of “A Scandal in Belgravia” doesn’t have quite the resolution to that confrontation as we might have expected all those months ago. Instead of a fiery boom, courtesy of a handgun and an explosive vest, we’re treated to a deliciously slow burning plot in what may be the series’ greatest episode yet. (more…)

Better to Have Loved and Lost…

NBC has cancelled its much talked about, but not watched, drama The Playboy Club, making it the first victim of the fall season. (FOX’s New Girl was the first pick up.)

The peacock network has also granted full seasons to Whitney and Up All Night, while comedy Free Agents was unceremoniously cancelled. And just when I was getting used to Anthony Stewart Head hanging around L.A… [Deadline, Deadline] (more…)