With Sherlock (which airs on Masterpiece on PBS), the contemporary reinvention of the Arthur Conan Doyle classics, written and created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, Sherlock Holmes (Benedict Cumberbatch) and Dr. John Watson (Martin Freeman) face enemies, solve crimes and try to figure out how to navigate their own friendship.  After Sherlock barely survived Moriarty (Andrew Scott) in Season two, Watson had to survive not only marriage to Mary (Amanda Abbington), only what her secrets would mean for their time to come.  And even though fans might have to wait another couple of years to encounter where things are going next, I know that I sure can't await to learn what twists and turns will be in shop.

During this contempo exclusive interview with Collider, creator/writer Steven Moffat talked about how awesome it'south been to have people embrace the show so much, why viewers didn't come across the twists with Mary, calculation the female perspective to Sherlock Holmes, where these characters might be going adjacent, and the long term programme with Moriarty.  Cheque out what he had to say later on the jump, and exist aware that there are some spoilers.

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Collider:  Knowing that Sherlock Holmes is one of the nearly usually used characters in cinema, is it actually exciting and fun to know that people really love this version and remember it's 1 of the best versions that's been doing?

STEVEN MOFFAT:  Well, information technology's awesome for Mark and me.  Every bit you say in America, it's awesome.  Crawly is a bully discussion.  Of course it is!  We are Sherlock Holmes fanboys.  Nosotros are seriously into Sherlock Holmes.  That's why we're doing it.  Then, to go to do a version, at all, is an amazing treat for us.  Information technology's just a fanboy treat.  I guess I can say – crippled with shame that I'm being immodest – that information technology'southward a huge, massive success, and people do seem to think information technology'south one of the best versions.  We totaled up the awards the other mean solar day and it'south gotten over lx, which is quite a lot for nine films.  That'south just amazing!  It happened to incredibly fast.

We slightly feel equally though nosotros just arrived at the height of the mount.  Nosotros had barely finished making the showtime [season], and nosotros were just very excited by the fact that we'd finally gotten to put 221B on a door, and Mark and I could be photographed next to it.  We were but being ridiculous children.  And they brought the circulate date radically forward, so nosotros had about 3 weeks.  We had no time.  And then, the first episode striking so huge that it was already a national establishment, by the time the second episode was on.  We had no moment of clamoring toward the light.  It was simply at that place.  Benedict Cumberbatch could and did walk through the streets of London, in that coat and with Martin [Freeman].  At present, the thought that nosotros could do that at present, with a long lens and without causing a riot, is ridiculous.  Suddenly, Benedict Cumberbatch went from being absolutely unknown to existence the most famous man in London.

The twists with Mary and with Moriarty were so much fun.

MOFFAT:  The Moriarty matter is manifestly a complete cheat, merely it'southward still fun.  The Mary affair is interesting.  The reason yous didn't spot it is because you lot liked her.  We put the audience in the position of Sherlock Holmes.  All the evidence is absolutely under your olfactory organ.  It's all there.  She'southward far too calm under pressure.  No homo beingness would be like that.  She immediately likes Sherlock Holmes, which is the sure sign of a maniac.  Simply all the audience is thinking is, "Well, give thanks god, she's not a drag.  Give thanks god, she's fun," instead of thinking, "What sort of person is that?  That'south not a nurse.  She'southward something other than a nurse."  So, when she turns around and points a gun at Sherlock, it's the 2 things you really want.  It'south a surprise, but you also think, "I should have seen that!  Of course!  She had to be!"

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Is information technology fun to add the female perspective to Sherlock Holmes?

MOFFAT:  One of the interesting things about Sherlock, every bit a evidence, is that we want to stick very close to the style and approach of the original stories, simply the 1 big problem is that there are no women, and what women practice plough upwardly are not that great.  They're a fleck boring.  Not all of them, only most of them are non very interesting.  He didn't seem that comfortable with women, only the 2 boys are fantastic.  I sometimes forget that Mrs. Hudson doesn't really speak in the original, and we've given her a large function.  That'south a nice female perspective on those two.  And Molly wasn't even in the original stories, but she but worked and so well that we kept her, and she'south developed so hugely.  She'southward changed so much.  In that location's a very different, very female perspective with that grapheme.  Mary, in some ways, is the most interesting perspective of all.  The thing that's occurred to me recently is that what is consistently true of all the women who come across Sherlock Holmes is that they see through him much faster.  John [Watson] is yet pretty much enthralled with the deed.  All the women he meets decode him and so fast.  Mrs. Hudson just thinks he'due south a spoiled deviling, who she quite likes.  Irene [Adler] gets information technology totally.  She tin can shut him downward with a smile, and she gets that.  Molly, initially, was awestruck, only so quickly got what he is.  So, bringing the female perspective onto Sherlock is brilliant, I retrieve.  Information technology works so well.  And Mary is such a good instance of information technology.

It will exist so much fun to become to run into how things between Sherlock, Watson and Mary play out, in the time to come, knowing what nosotros now know near Mary.

MOFFAT:  These are all magnificent people.  They're all bad people, just that's all right.  They're all bad people together.  Sherlock delineates, in what'due south probably my favorite scene of the series, and says, "Expect at all the people you know.  Of grade, she'south like that."  They'll be great.

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How difficult is it to discover villains who can challenge Sherlock Holmes?

MOFFAT:  Well, one of the interesting things about Sherlock Holmes is that you lot don't necessarily need a villain.  That'due south a wrong perception of Sherlock Holmes stories.  Moriarty actually only appears in one story, and Milverton is another great villain.  Just, there are a lot of Sherlock Holmes stories without any villains, at all.  Near of the Sherlock Holmes stories are intriguing piffling puzzles.  Sometimes they don't fifty-fifty involve a crime.  It's quite important to remember that Sherlock Holmes must part without a chief criminal.  And indeed, we were quite careful with Magnussen to say that he's not a master criminal.  He'south not very nice.  He's a bad man, merely he hasn't got a plan.  He isn't about to hollow out the core of the planet and airplane pilot information technology into space, or anything.  He'southward just getting some money.  That's the only evil plan that anyone's ever had.

Are y'all going to address the Moriarty thing and what that really is all about, right abroad?

MOFFAT:  Well, you're going to have to wait and see what we're gonna do.  This is not a whim.  This is the longest term plan nosotros've had.  There are some things that you change, at the final minute.  You think, "Oh, we could do this instead."  But, the Moriarty plan has been in identify since the finish of the first [season], let alone the end of the 2d [flavor].  Information technology's a skilful program.  Information technology works.  My son worked information technology out, so that was quite good.  No one else has.  He was getting hassled by someone at schoolhouse who was saying, "Your dad doesn't let anyone stay dead."  Then, he came home and said, "Dad, is it this?," and I said, "Aye, that'due south what it is."  Information technology'due south all perfectly logical, and I call back people will like it.

For more on the future of Sherlock, here's our exclusive interview with Moffat and producer Sue Vertue.  They talk virtually plans for flavor four, 5 and more than.

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Christina Radish is a Senior Reporter at Collider. Having worked at Collider for over a decade (since 2009), her primary focus is on pic and television interviews with talent both in front of and behind the camera. She is a theme park fanatic, which has lead to covering various country and ride openings, and a huge music fan, for which she judges life by the time before Pearl Jam and the fourth dimension afterwards. She is also a fellow member of the Critics Pick Association and the Television Critics Association.

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