The partners in fighting crime are ably supported by Una Stubbs as their Baker Street residence housekeeper Mrs. The stellar Sherlock cast includes Benedict Cumberbatch (Marvel’s Doctor Strange and an Oscar nominee for The Imitation Game) as the fiercely intelligent but equally arrogant Sherlock Holmes and Martin Freeman (The Office, Fargo, Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit trilogy) as Holmes’s often exasperated side-kick Doctor John Watson. Until the special episode “The Abominable Bride” that is. Anyone expecting a smoking pipe and a deerstalker will be left wanting. Created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, the men behind Doctor Who and The League Of Gentlemen, Sherlock plays with expectations and gives them a delightfully knowing modern spin. The classic tomes in question are Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes detective stories. A modern masterpiece that takes a character from classic literature and playfully confounds audience expectations while staying true to the much-revered source material. Earlier in the trailer, that same man is seen holding his arms out in submission to the ghostly bride, therefore giving her power over him.Quite simply, Sherlock is one of the greatest shows of our time.
Is the trailer suggesting that men who show their emotions are fragile and pitiful? There is one more observation to be made. The other character is a man shown sweating and shaking, appearing weak and pathetic. Sherlock is a likable character who fans adore. The man who is held up at gunpoint by the bride is later seen weeping in fear saying to someone “t was the bride.” He displays strong emotions which begs the question why would the trailer exhibit a man showing emotions if it was promoting the idea of hypermasculinity and stoicism? The answer lies in the differences between Sherlock and the other man. However, there is another element in the trailer that differs. Upon first glance, the trailer is adopting this form of masculinity. He displays little emotion in the trailer. Sherlock, the protagonist, is incredibly stoic. In the trailer for Sherlock “The abominable Bride”, the creators seem to be promoting the same idea of masculinity. Stoicism had long been an element of masculinity which television shows had been modeling and advertising less and less until the 90’s during which stoicism and general masculinity rose. She found that the number of sensitive emotions and the degree of emotional control exhibited by men in the shows had been increasing but a reversal occurred in the 90s (Scharrer, 100). She constructs an interesting observation about the decline of hypermasculinity through the decades but that in the 90’s the trend was reversed. According to Meldrum “, the depiction of the female characters in these neo-Victorian settings is one in which feminine agency and influence are marginalized…” (Meldrum, …show more content… In the essay by Erica Scharrer, “More Than “Just the Facts”?: Portrayals of Masculinity in Police and Detective Programs Over Time,” Scharrer looks at how men have been represented in police and detective shows since the 1950’s to the end of 1990’s.
The genre and time period of the three shows are precisely the same of Sherlock “The Abominable Bride.” In her essay, she analyzes the role of women in the shows. In the essay, “Yesterday's Women: The Female Presence in Neo-Victorian Television Detective Programs” by Claire Meldrum she looks at three relatively new detective shows based in the victorian age.
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Show More Although the trailer does seem to entice viewers to watch the full episode of Sherlock “The Abominable Bride” by giving promises and asking questions there are also other techniques used to gain viewers attention.