Sherlock Season 3

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If you haven’t already, DON’T watch the PBS broadcast of Sherlock Season 3. PBS edits the shows before airing. You won’t see complete episodes.

I found this out after Season 1, when I bought the DVD’s (NOTE: you can get the DVDs earlier from amazon.uk, though you’ll need an all-region DVD player to watch them). I realized I was seeing entire scenes that PBS didn’t broadcast. A crucial scene in “A Study in Pink”, where the murderer reveals his motivation, was cut short on PBS. So you never know until you watch the DVD why he did the murders.

Really unconscionable of PBS to manhandle such a great series.

– B. Sloane

Best Sherlock ever, with my favorite episodes on it…the wedding and the return after Sherlock’s dive off the building at the beginning of the last season. Other reviewers said this was the version to have, as the unedited BBC version. Maybe, I don’t know, I only watched it on Netflix. I will be getting the first two seasons too and watching carefully for anything further. The scripts are awesome and fresh, the pacing and camera work great and intersting, and the casting superb. Not gorey but enough chase scenes and action to suit anybody. LOvE It.

I love mysteries and Sherlock Holmes, who doesn’t!! THIS IS BY FAR the best interpretation of a modern Sherlock and Watson, love Mary Watson too.

-Amazon Customer

First I decided Jeremy Brett was the best Sherlock Holmes on the screen, then Johnny Lee Miller, then Benedict Cumberbatch, but now I think it’s Jeremy Brett for the first season, before he put too much Brett into the character. There’s nothing wrong with Cumberbatch’s interpretation – well, there is: he’s just not fastidious enough for my taste. Holmes of the penny dreadful stories is nothing if not fastidious. I see him on the floor, examining a clue no one else can even see, then when he stands up, he’s still clean, as if he had just stepped out of the entrance to 221B. He is never called Sherlock, his name is “Holmes.” But Cumberbatch revels in the behaviors that make one dirty. He may be Sherlock, but he is not Holmes.
Martin Freeman’s Watson, however, is far and away the best Watson I have ever seen, better that I could have imagined after at least a dozen bumbling, moronic Watsons we seem to have been gifted with over the years. Freeman’s Watson is courageous,, intelligent, but injured by the horrors of war, and with the need for action that life with Holmes offers. Absolutely the best, a match for Sherlock in every way except Watson has a moral compass that Sherlock seems to lack.
To say Cumberbatch’s Sherlock was not my favorite Holmes is not to say that I didn’t thoroughly enjoy every minute of every episode in three seasons of the show, I was completely involved, entangled, addicted to the show. And while I was watching, I thought Cumberbatch had the character down pat, but in retrospect I can’t say he was “better”, just new and different, and unfortunately, like a child who doesn’t mind getting muddy as he splashes through the puddles after a rain.
So… An excellent re-interpretation of the iconic detective Sherlock Holmes, excellent in all aspects save one, and Benedict Cumberbbatch is an excellent, award worthy actor who’s immersion in the character of Sherlock the hyper-intelligent man, stuck developmentally at twelve years old, who’s exuberant pursuit of accurate explanations of reality lead to wonderful stories for us to watch unfold. I will watch them again, and possibly again, and enjoy every minute. You should too.

– db

DVD Wholesale Main Features:

Actors: Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman
Format: Color, NTSC
Language: English
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number of discs: 2
Studio: BBC Home Entertainment
DVD Release Date: February 11, 2014
Run Time: 262 minutes