![]() ![]() Nevertheless, after three seasons and an off-kilter special last year, the return of Sherlock feels weighty this time around. Where Sherlock wins is in the length of its episodes, which allow for a much larger arc, opening the door of possibility in terms of the aforementioned (and expected) sense of spectacle that makes the return of Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman feel more like an event than anything else. That's a lot of time to allow for an adequate examination of subtleties and nuances in the work of bringing such familiar characters to life. ![]() Sherlock, John and Mycroft head to the prison to find out if Eurus is still at the prison or not and she’s there so Sherlock takes a moment to speak with her asking her how she was able to escape.Unlike Elementary, Sherlock doesn't have the luxury of time in the sense that, like most broadcast shows, Elementaryenjoys 22 episodes a season with Sherlock and Joan. Instead she tells him that she finds it fascinating that he can’t remember what happened to his dog at all. What was her reasoning for killing his best friend? Because she wanted him to play with her and he never would, ignoring her for his best friend.Īs it turns out they never had a dog and who she killed was his best friend – throwing him down a well. ![]() ![]() Something that seems fairly surface (a sibling ignoring another sibling to play with friends), but her loneliness goes to a much deeper level. Mycroft reveals that Eurus can reprogram people and that is what’s so dangerous about her. When they learn that the head of the prison is enslaved by her, John and Mycroft know how she is escaping. So for the burning question of the hour – How does Eurus know Moriarty? Before he died, she requested 5 minutes unsupervised with Moriarty and for some reason Mycroft allowed it and the discussion centered around Sherlock’s dog. Mycroft allowing this conversation with Moriarty was fairly out of character for him since he knows exactly how dangerous she is as well as how crazy Moriarty is. He may have felt some sort of brotherly love as well as guilt for having her locked up all these years, but knowing what he knows about Moriarty this makes absolutely no sense and we are having a hard time buying into it. What we would’ve rather seen was Moriarty not being part of this episode at all. As much as we love him, the reality is he was not what made this episode great, it was having the focus on our three main characters having to work together and face some hard truths about themselves. Eurus was more then enough of a villain to make this episode work.Īfter putting Sherlock, Mycroft and John it a series of locked rooms, she plays games of life and death with them. She pushes the three of them to go through a series of deductions that end in the lives of many people as well as playing with the emotions of Molly forcing her to admit that she loves Sherlock or die. Of all the horrible things that Eurus made these three do, making Molly admit that she’s in love with Sherlock was brutal for us to watch since we know how deeply her feelings run for him and after learning that there were never any explosives in her house (and that she was never in danger) Sherlock falls apart. The last room leaves Sherlock with the choice to either kill John or Mycroft, which is something we saw coming a million miles away. ![]()
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