REVIEW SHERLOCK SEASON 4 SERIES

Maybe I’m just overly critical of it but shouldn’t we be critical of the things we love? The main thing that bugged me to hell and back was the fact that the first 30 minutes felt like a series of short sketches that served no real purpose. The few merits it had were the first real fight scene we have from the detective, harking back to the novels were Sherlock was a well known boxer, with another merit being…em… actually that is it for me. In all honesty I can categorically say it in the worst episode of Sherlock to have been made so far as none of it felt like the classic Sherlock we have all loved since “A Study in Pink” first aired. Hopefully that reflected how convoluted, misplaced, odd and just off in general the episode was. The series began with “The Six Thatcher’s”, a story revolving around bust’s of Margaret Thatcher, John and Mary’s new born baby, Sherlock’s inability to be a functioning human, past tales of espionage, some fight scenes, a case open and closed within 5 minutes of it being introduced, a (not so) emotional death, some really awkwardly placed monologues, a cheating husband… kinda and some a really odd editing style. It is also the series that departs from the source material the most, the first two episodes did in fact adapt previous stories (“The Adventure of the Six Napoleons” and “The Adventure of the Dying Detective”) yet the series finale was a completely new story created by the writers, Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, the latter also playing Sherlock’s brother Mycroft. This series feels like the biggest departure from every series that comes before it, although still strong in parts, I feel it is the weakest series, mainly due to “The six Thatcher’s” being the most terrible, gosh darn awful episode ever made and the other two having a few flaws.

Oh, and before we get into it SPOILERS, SPOLIERS, MY GOD SPOILERS!!! It has become one of the BBC’s most watched shows and is anxiously awaited every time a series ends and considering we only ever get 3 episodes at a time, let’s have a critical review of this series offering. Since the series began back in Spring of 2010, the BBC’s Sherlock has become a complete global phenomenon and its stars have been propelled into the forefront of the global media.

Review sherlock season 4