He's standing on a bridge, and he doesn't know what's going on. This is because Important Characters Have Flaws.Īnyway, the mystery, such as it is, is soon solved by Sherlock using magic. Then, for no reason whatsoever, the episode turns into a melancholy relationship drama about John Watson contemplating infidelity with a lady he met on a bus. But he leaves out one crucial detail, because there's still half an hour to fill. He explains everything, and then gets shot. Said aspirant killer explains what's going on like a villain at the end of an episode of Scooby Doo Where Are You?, which is nice, because it wasn't making any sense at all up to now. Mary's wannabe killer strolls into the room at this point, because it's time in the story for that to happen, despite the fact there is no way he could have found her. I remember that, Watson's Sad Face, and they've done it again. Sherlock and Watson find her, having planted a tracking device on her all along, meaning she was never really missing, and the whole sequence was entirely pointless, except it makes Watson Do A Sad Face. We get a montage of Mary jetting around the world doing spy stuff, with faked passports, and false identities, and some graphics, and none of it advances any plot points. There's a lot of fighting and shouting and some torture. At which point, the episode turns into a shoddy John Le Carre rip off for about half an hour. The upshot of all this is that there's a chap on the loose who wants to kill Watson's wife Mary because of something we don't know about her secret past as a super-spy. So that's good too.Īnyway, it turns out that one of the busts has something hidden in it, which appears to be a thing that was destroyed in an episode from two years ago, and there's a quick flashback that doesn't really explain what it is, but Sophisticated Writing Uses Call-Backs, so it must be good. There is absolutely no reason why they're of Thatcher, but someone gets a throwaway line about how Thatcher is like Napoleon, which she isn't, but there are six of the busts, and there's a Conan Doyle story called The Six Napoleons, and I remember that, from the books.
Someone is going around smashing busts of Margaret Thatcher, and murdering anyone who gets in the way. This leads to something else that looks like it might be a detective story.
It's good though, because there's a montage and some graphics. He says something about intuition being high speed reasoning, and then just knows the complete solution. Holmes solves it immediately, though, using magic. There's then a mystery about a missing teenager, and it looks like we might actually get a detective story. Then the Watsons' baby is born, and they discuss baby names, and Sherlock says "you know what I think", and they do the joke about how Sherlock isn't a girl's name, because Repeating Jokes Is Funny. The adventure snippet montage is also a trick from a previous episode, but that's good, because I remember that, and they've done it again. Also because Repeating Jokes Is Funny and The Fans Love That Stuff. We then see a montage of snippets of cases we don't see in full, in which characters repeat lines from previous adventures like, "it's never twins", to which the audience can respond, "I Remember That, From When Sherlock Was Good, And They've Done It Again, So That Means It's Still Good". This has no bearing on the rest of the story, but it does mean they don't have to write their way out of that cliff-hanger, so that's nice. It then re-establishes that Moriarty's cunning plans reach beyond the grave, and shows us the creation of fake evidence to get Sherlock off a murder charge. The story proper gets underway with a zany comedy spat between Sherlock and his brother Mycroft, because Sibling Rivalry Hides Deep Bonds. But the fans love that stuff, apparently. And you know what, I did miss Moriarty, when they killed him off, or maybe didn't kill him off, but it's been a while, and I've kind of got over it.
#Review sherlock 2017 tv
Season four of Sherlock the TV show is about a man with magic powers and a collection of Things That He Does, who has a bunch of friends who all have one character trait each.Įpisode one, written by co-showrunner Mark Gatiss, opens with a recap of the "did you miss me?" Moriarty cliff hanger from three years ago.
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