BBC’s new trailer for season 4 of ‘Sherlock’ takes detective to a dark place

Sherlock Holmes appears to have an appointment with one of his most challenging adversaries in the upcoming season of Sherlock: himself. The BBC released a new trailer for the fourth season of the hit series that casts Doctor Strange and Star Trek Into Darkness star Benedict Cumberbatch as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous detective and it seems to show Sherlock Holmes struggling to come to grips with some of his deepest, darkest secrets. Captain America: The First Avenger and The Girl actor Toby Jones appears quite prominently in the trailer as Culverton Smith, a character introduced in Doyle’s 1913 story The Adventure of the Dying Detective. Sherlock is scheduled to return for its fourth season on January 1, more than a year on hiatus as Cumberbatch and co-star Martin Freeman appeared in various big-screen and television projects. The last episode of Sherlock to air was the 2015 Christmas Special, The Abominable Bride. The third season concluded in February 2014, so it’s been more than two years since that last full season of Sherlock aired. The fourth season of the series reportedly brings Sherlock back to British soil and kicks off with an episode titled The Six Thatchers — likely a reference to Doyle’s 1904 story The Adventure of the Six Napoleons, in which Sherlock and Dr. John Watson investigate a mystery involving smashed statues of Napoleon Bonaparte. The new season will also unfold as Watson (Freeman) and his wife, Mary (Amanda Abbington), welcome their first child. Over the course of the show’s three seasons, Sherlock has earned a long list of accolades to go along with its high audience ratings, including 34 Primetime Emmy Award nominations for the show, its cast, and the creative team behind it, and won nine Primetime Emmy Awards — including one for The Abominable Bride and for both Cumberbatch and Freeman. Series co-creator Steven Moffat also won a Primetime Emmy Award for writing the 2013 episode His Last Vow. Along with the series’ usual debut on BBC, Sherlock will air on PBS in the U.S. “Now, we’re finally at the end,” Ben Stone (Once Upon a Time’s Josh Dallas) tells the survivors of Flight 828 in the opening moments of the new Manifest trailer. The show is also reaching its conclusion as the final 10 episodes of Manifest season 4, part 2 will serve as the series finale. “In the aftermath of Angelina (The Americans’ Holly Taylor) unleashing a volcanic fissure, the passengers face severe scrutiny in a world fueled by 828er hate, no longer free to solve their own Callings without constant supervision by the unscrupulous 828 Registry,” the official synopsis reads. You, one of the best shows on Netflix, commenced its fourth season with the first five episodes on February 9 and the remaining five set for release on March 9.  Now that Joe (Penn Badgley) is going by the name Jonathan and working as a professor in London, he is reluctantly making new friends. Once again, something about Joe draws people in the upper echelon of society to him, even when he doesn’t quite fit in. The newly introduced characters are mostly snobby, elitist spoiled rich kids who make up for what they lack in talent and drive with ample bank accounts. Each comes from a wealthy family and most of them haven’t had to work a day in their lives. Joe resents them for it, revolted by every conversation. But there’s no denying they make for good television. Interestingly, many of the best new characters in You are just as awful as Joe, but in different ways.
6. Simon For three seasons, Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) has been an obsessed stalker and murderer. Now, the tables have flipped as Joe goes from the hunter to the hunted in the first trailer for You season 4 part 1. After the tumultuous ending to his relationship with Love (Victoria Pedretti), Joe flees to Europe to start anew. Going by the name Jonathan Moore, Joe is a professor in London and falls in with the most “insane, damaged people on Earth: a circle of privileged douchebags.” Wherever Joe ends up, murder soon follows, but this time, it’s not by his hand. Joe channels his inner Sherlock Holmes and attempts to stop the killer from stalking him and targeting his friend group.