I’m hoping that Series 5, whenever it comes, finds a way to bounce back from this mess. Last night’s episode was an example of the latter, and it was a pretty horrible way to end out the season. Sherlock is at its best when it’s finding new twists to put on Doyle, and at its worst when it goes off in random directions.
If you’re thinking that none of this sounds like any story Arthur Conan Doyle ever wrote… Well, you’d be right. It’s a revelation that worked a lot better in the final episode of M*A*S*H. Yay.Īnd ultimately we find out that Redbeard wasn’t Sherlock’s childhood dog, but Sherlock’s childhood playmate that Eurus killed because she’s just so EEEEEVIL, you guys. Oh, and for some extra unpleasantness, Eurus forces Sherlock to play mind games with poor Molly Hooper’s affections. The director of the Sherrinford facility and his wife are both killed through Eurus’ manipulations, but since we barely know either character, their deaths don’t have much resonance. Jackson.Īndrew Scott is largely wasted as Jim Moriarty, reduced to making taunting sounds on video screens while Watson and the Holmes boys race to solve the riddles. Although Martin Freeman DOES make a very convincing Samuel L. Sherlock, John, and Mycroft spend most of the rest of “The Final Problem” running around the Sherrinford facility, solving riddles Eurus poses like they’re in a road company version of Die Hard With A Vengeance. It’s revealed that five years ago, Mycroft gave his psycho sister a Christmas present: Five minutes of unsupervised conversation with Jim Moriarty (For the smartest man in England, Mycroft sure can be stupid sometimes). If you thought that Mycroft was dumb in S2’s “The Reichenbach Fall,” spilling secrets about Sherlock to Moriarty, well, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Please.Īmong the people Eurus has played mind games with is Mycroft Holmes himself. Find something else for your fearsome villains to do, please. Seriously, can we just retire this trope already? Any freshness it once had has long since been played out in the 26 years since Silence. Seriously, when the concept behind your master villain sounds more absurd than The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother, it might be time to rethink things.Įurus, naturally, is sitting pretty in a glass cell, just like all the criminal masterminds in The Dark Knight, The Avengers, Skyfall, and a billion other things you’ve seen since The Silence of the Lambs. And because she’s so super-smart & everything, she plays mind games with everyone who crosses her path. (Really, does it get any more fan-fiction-y than “Sherlock and Mycroft have a secret sister who’s smarter than both of them and EEEEVIL”?) Watson and the Holmes brothers quickly make their way out to Sherrinford to confront Eurus and figure out how she’s been breaking out of the facility. We find out that Mycroft has been concealing the existence of Eurus from Sherlock for most of his brother’s life, and that she’s incurably insane and been locked away in a secret island facility called Sherrinford since childhood. She revealed her identity and shot John in the final seconds of “The Lying Detective.” And, true to Sherlock form, the show quickly shrugs off this cliffhanger and moves on to other things (It was just a tranquilizer dart, you guys!). But “The Final Problem” is, in my opinion, the first episode of Sherlock to have practically no redeeming features whatsoever.īriefly, last week concluded with the revelation that Sherlock and Mycroft had a secret sister, Eurus Holmes, who was plotting against her brothers.
While Sherlock has been no stranger to underwhelming episodes before (I’m looking at you, “Blind Banker” and “Hounds of Baskerville”), even those shows had their moments. Pictured: John shortly after finishing the episode. SPOILERS for “The Final Problem” after the picture. Now, I’m kind of wishing that they went with it. Two dream endings in one series would really be pushing it. And besides, Sherlock has gone to that well once before. I hated this idea, mainly because “It was all a dream” is one of the lamest ways to end a story imaginable. Basically, the theory was that Sherlock had spent all or most of S4 inside of his Mind Palace. Sunday afternoon on Facebook, my friend Frank Hablawi shared a fan theory about the Series 4 finale of Sherlock.
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