Last
Sunday night, some people watched the Super Bowl. Well, perhaps a few more than
some. I didn’t. My wife and I watched Downton Abbey (and were glad to see
Maggie Smith with some acidly wonderful lines again), and then we watched Sherlock Holmes.
Sherlock
Holmes. If you haven’t seen this version of Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous
detective, then you have missed what is likely the best (and I can say that
because I’ve seen them all).
This
Sherlock Holmes is the PBS series starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin
Freeman (Bilbo in The Hobbit). Sunday
night was the third (and last) episode of season three. (Only three episodes in
a season! What can the British be thinking? Only three?) I didn’t think the episode could equal the one
from the week before – John Watson’s wedding, but it did (it even included a
tongue-in-cheek reference to The Hobbit).
It’s been a long time since I’ve been this blown away by a television program.
Episode
2 – the wedding – included what has to be one of the most extraordinary wedding
toast by a best man (Sherlock) ever. It’s a long segment of the episode; in
fact, the episode is largely built around the wedding toast.
As
long as it’s available on YouTube, here are two parts of that wedding toast.
