8/11/2023 0 Comments Sherlock series reviewIt’s okay – indeed necessary – for a character to change over time, but some of these changes are occurring too fast, without proper motivation, or are contradictory to Sherlock’s core attributes i.e. This is the same guy who is so perceptive he can tell that someone is having an affair by the state of their clothes alone. So Sherlock is now someone who can be fooled by an ordinary person? She even gives a thumbs up to both John and Sherlock at the same time, without the latter noticing. At one point, Mary manipulated Sherlock into taking a case in order to assuage his wedding nerves. The Sherlock of this series is too different from the character in previous series jokey and playful, not aloof or arrogant enough. That’s the type of punchline a sitcom character – The Big Bang Theory’s Sheldon Cooper maybe – would say, with a laugh-track over the top. ‘Do you have anything to say in your defence,’ he asked Mary’s ex-boyfriend. This episode though started like a jokey sitcom about the awkward but loveable Sherlock.Īt one point, Sherlock interrogated the wedding party, which is something I could see him doing, completely unaware of how inappropriate it would seem, but the scene crossed a line into ridiculous camp. The show works best when it builds jokes into the dialogue, humanising the characters and providing some relief from the often scary drama. Sherlock is not a sitcom it’s a drama with comedy elements. Too much of the episode was given over to broad comedy. Sherlock solved the case before disappearing into the night, leaving John and his new wife with the knowledge that a third Watson would soon be on the way. The episode spun around John’s wedding to Mary Morstan, climaxing with the reveal that two recent cases Sherlock had been working on were linked to a plan to kill John’s former army commander during the reception. The show seems to have lost its way during the two year break between series two and three, and I’d like to take a look at what’s gone wrong. The first third of the episode was awful and the second third poor, but the last part returned to the exciting, fast paced and intelligent drama that made Sherlock so good in the first place. The Sign of Three started as the last episode finished: badly.
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