1/13/2024 0 Comments Review sherlock season 4 episode 3![]() Goodbye, Mary Morstan Watson - real name Rosamund, because naming your daughter after your former identity as a Spy Assassin Ninja is a great - we hardly knew you. Let’s hope that she sticks around as more than just a thorn in the Holmes brothers’ sides. This isn’t really related to the plot, it’s just been on my mind for a while. Lady Smallwood? More Like Lady Small Role Wasted On One of Britain’s Finest Actresses It would serve John “one does not simply cheat on Mary Morstan” Watson right. Presumably Flirty Bus Lady will turn out to be one of Moriarty’s gang. With the Johnlock bromance at a - presumably temporary - end, it doesn’t bode well for fans of the partnership that’s at the heart of the show. ![]() Perhaps it’s down to the popularity of the actors and their hectic schedules, but it made the episode feel scattered and unsatisfying. While the show’s narrative arc was once filtered through John Watson’s confused but admiring gaze, now multiple scenes can go by without he or Sherlock. Which brings us on to… The Case of the Disappearing Detectives Like all the best minor characters, he’s at his finest the fewer scenes he has, so here’s hoping he lets Holmes Minor keep the spotlight. Mycroft is the jewel in “Sherlock’s” crown, and no matter what role Mark Gatiss played in the shoddy construction of this episode, he’s forgiven on the basis of his performance - which, as ever, managed to be both unctuous and understated. What kind of sculptor makes a limited edition run of Thatcher busts and only makes six?Īnd I’m sorry, but if you’re going to shoot a gun in an aquarium with glass tanks, the very least I expect is for John Watson to punch a shark. For that matter, why are the security services doctoring security footage they presumably took?ĭid we really need to see AJ, Mary’s former associate, Googling Sherlock? The man’s a Spy Assassin Ninja, surely he’d have heard of the world’s first consulting detective? The timeline doesn’t entirely make sense - Sherlock claims to be clean and sober, although he’s surely recovering from the massive overdose that provided most of the hallucinatory plot of last year’s Christmas special. Maybe our parents are right and Twitter really does rot the brain. ![]() Here he uses guesswork, technology and when those fail, just makes things up. Even the smartest viewer can’t replicate his mental gymnastics. The wonderful, frustrating part of the show, the part that makes it stand out against the myriad of detective dramas clogging the airwaves, is that we’re always one step behind Sherlock Holmes. Hell, Sherlock is supposed to be smarter than this - it’s the difference between sorcery and sleight of hand. “Sherlock” is supposed to be smarter than this. Unassuming little old ladies are the Chekov’s gun of crime dramas – put them on the narrative mantelpiece early on and by the end they’ll be firing all over the place. Just background enough not to strike the viewer as suspicious, but memorable enough that come the big reveal you slap your thigh with a hearty cry of “Of course! I should have seen that coming!”Īnd with any other show, we would have. ![]() The mastermind pulling the strings is Vivian Norbury, the dotty old Top Secret secretary from the opening scenes. When a face from her past shows up, she’s on the next plane leaving her newborn baby behind before you can say “are you sure those episiotomy scars have healed yet?” Heroes and Villains In any case, the Iron Lady is a Macguffin, except in the sense that this episode delights in bringing powerful women crashing down – the real story here is Mary’s past as a Spy Assassin Ninja and how her last mission went horribly wrong, leaving her to take the blame. Quentin Tarantino's Favorite Movies: 49 Films the Director Wants You to See.Billy Crudup's 'Hello Tomorrow' Shoots for the Moon and Gets Lost in the Stars.'Party Down' Season 3 Struggles to Recapture Its Cavalier Spirit.
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