![]() Toby Jones' characterisation is truly disturbing and it's so clear that he's just having a blast, cackling through his crooked teeth and sneering smile. Moreover, the idea of its central villain - Toby Jones channeling Jimmy Saville by way of Donald Trump - is fiendishly brilliant. The second episode, The Lying Detective, was a far better example of tightly-knit storytelling mixed with visual flights into fancy. Mary Watson diving in front of a bullet - and probably breaking the speed of sound in the process - just finished it all off. ![]() By the end, the idea of a secretary of using a mercenary hit squad for her own end and then carrying a gun around with her just breaks the thing entirely. Mary Watson, a highly-trained assassin doesn't clock that she's got a tracking device on her or knows that she's been followed by her husband and his best friend? Suspension of disbelief - even in Sherlock's world - can only be stretched so far before it snaps. Setting the finale of an episode inside an aquarium? The voice-over at the start? Look back on the first and second season and point to a time when any of this would have been acceptable.Īlthough there were some interesting flourishes - particularly the reveal of AGRA - the writing made absolutely no sense. More to the point, there wasn't any push-back on any of Moffat / Gatiss' leanings. Taking on director Rachel Talalay - who directed such cultural gems like Tank Girl and Ghost In The Machine - was a fatal error, as it's clear that she had little in the way of subtlety or understanding of how the series worked. The very idea of featuring sharks so heavily in the episode - particularly the finale - leads us to believe that even Moffat himself is aware that he's jumped the shark. Right from the first episode - The Six Thatchers - it was clear that showrunner / writer Steven Moffat had a hit a brick wall and was now forcing his way through it by any means necessary. Following last night's broadcast of The Final Problem, the third and final episode of Sherlock's fourth season, one thing has become staggeringly clear - Sherlock, as we know it, is done.
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