I personally have a huge bone to pick with the fact that Sherlock’s skull poster in 221B Baker Street kept changing colors throughout the entire season, often within the same scene. Why did she break out of her fortified prison just to flirt with John Watson? Why did she impersonate his therapist, only to shoot him with a tranquilizer and return to her concrete island? And how, after her implausible “Saw” trap-esque evil plan did she transport the Holmes brother and John to the ancestral mansion? These sequences lack depth, meaning and conclusion. Are we really supposed to believe that Sherlock immediately forgave his sister for murdering five strangers in cold blood, drowning his childhood best friend in a well and threatening to kill everyone he loves because she was sad? Plot Holes, Meet Loose Endsįrom “The Six Thatchers” all the way through the dueling violin battle, the suspended disbelief element is strong with this one. She looks like the evil demon from “The Ring,” walks and talks like a living Gothic madwoman trope and regresses feminist literature by about a hundred years. Eurus lacks any legitimate characterization. How kind of her.Īs a human being, she’s a real mess. That happened at the end of season 3, but Eurus decided to sit back and hang for a year so two more episodes and a Christmas special could proceed. Whilst locked up in Alcatraz or whatever, she comes up with this insane plot to trick Sherlock into thinking his real arch-nemesis, Jim Moriarty, is posthumously plotting something, by broadcasting “Miss Me?” across every screen in London. This five-year-old girl has psychic enslavement powers but for some reason can’t convince her older brother to play pirates with her, and it sets her off on a lifelong murderous rage. Keep in mind that this is a character who’s never been introduced before or alluded to in Arthur Conan Doyle canon, so to introduce her at the last second and expect an audience to be wowed by her presence is naive in the first place.
The supposedly gripping plot arc of this season, and all that came before it, was Sherlock’s evil little sister, Eurus. Lots to unpack here.Ī general warning: if you haven’t seen bits of season 4 or any of the preceding seasons and specials, it’s all spoilers from here on out.
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Unfortunately, it retroactively destroyed everything good about the series in the first place. The Sherlock season 4 finale was alleged to be history-making, groundbreaking television by its cast and crew.
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