--- title: Sherlock Creator Says Answers Are Coming in Series 4 description: "There are answers coming to questions which nobody has asked" canonical: https://time.com/3761889/sherlock-season-4-bloody-frightening/ author: Sarah Begley article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-27T19:21:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T05:30:43.412Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Sherlock Creator Says Season 4 Will Be 'Bloody Frightening' og:description: "There are answers coming to questions which nobody has asked" og:url: https://time.com/3761889/sherlock-season-4-bloody-frightening/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfe9cdf0f6aae66bd/69876aea35ba6f852fc058dd/sherlock.jpg?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Sherlock og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Sherlock Creator Says Season 4 Will Be 'Bloody Frightening' twitter:description: "There are answers coming to questions which nobody has asked" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfe9cdf0f6aae66bd/69876aea35ba6f852fc058dd/sherlock.jpg?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # _Sherlock_ Creator Says Season 4 Will Be 'Bloody Frightening' by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Mar 27, 2015 7:21 PM CUT  BBC by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Mar 27, 2015 7:21 PM CUT _Sherlock_ co-creator Steven Moffatt won’t reveal much about season four of the Benedict Cumberbatch show, but he does hint at a dark turn for the show, in an interview with _Entertainment Weekly_. The theme of the season, said the writer-producer, will be consequences. “Chickens come to roost,” he says. “It’s dark in some ways—obviously it’s great fun and a Sherlock Holmes romp and all that—but there’s a sense of… things… coming back to bite you.” He continued: “It’s hilarious and exhilarating some days, but some days it’s going to be bloody frightening” [Read more](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/03/27/sherlock-season-4-interview "undefined") about the fourth season, which kicks off in the United Kingdom with a Christmas special later this year, at _EW.com_. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3761889/sherlock-season-4-bloody-frightening/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3761889/sherlock-season-4-bloody-frightening/"},"headline":"Sherlock Creator Says Season 4 Will Be 'Bloody Frightening'","datePublished":"2015-03-27T19:21:17.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T05:30:43.412Z","description":"\"There are answers coming to questions which nobody has asked\"","url":"https://time.com/3761889/sherlock-season-4-bloody-frightening/","keywords":["Television","Sherlock"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfe9cdf0f6aae66bd/69876aea35ba6f852fc058dd/sherlock.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfe9cdf0f6aae66bd/69876aea35ba6f852fc058dd/sherlock.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Sherlock","caption":"","creditText":"BBC","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3761889/sherlock-season-4-bloody-frightening/","name":"Sherlock Creator Says Season 4 Will Be 'Bloody Frightening'"}}]}] ```