So, Sherlock’s last episode in this series, if not for ever aired last night with the amount of speculation being wound up to ridiculous heights as the followers claimed and counter claimed what was going to happen and what everything meant.

Oh do fuck off.

Sherlock Holmes is brilliant, Dr Watson also brilliant, Mr Doyle who wrote the stories about this strangely brilliant detective and his ever faithful partner are just excellent characters. They have been reimagined many times on small and large screen with I hear another version being shot right now in London starring Will Ferrel.

So why when Gatiss and Moffat who lets be fair have brought us three fantastic series so far, did they decide to disappear up their own arses?

Previously they have been clever, funny, innovative, displayed a real understanding of how the characters would live in the world today, how the stories from the 1800s can work so well here with the modern take. The acting, the sets, the twists, the villains all executed with a believable air, sucking us all in and loving the fantastic work.

The Last Problem promised to take The Lying Detective’s almost back to form following the first episode which was quite shit. However, the clumsy plot holes, the ridiculous premise of the sister being this uber evil brain, unbelievable settings and sets just really pissed me and it seems the viewing public right off.

The figures for this series dropped dramatically after the first episode, went up for the second and started bombing during, yes during the third.

Why? It was over the top bollocks. It looked and felt like some crass American remake – Get Carter, Italian Job. Over the top aren’t we oh so clever writing plot twists and all because Sherlock’s sister got the arse that he wouldn’t play with her. It doesn’t wash, work, make any sense and as for the fucking cheesy ending – what utter utter ‘look at us’ writing. This incredible show where they’ve clearly have disappeared up their own arses. The writers look like they started off with a good idea and then took it in a couple of directions, then hit  a wall, panicked and went Hollywood.

Just utter bollocks and not so bloody clever. Entertaining? No.

Gatpiss and Modfartt just recognise that you had a good thing and then you royally fucked it up.

I suggest you go away, have a think and perhaps come back with one last series. Work with new writers, work with old writers just listen to others, listen to the public and maybe, just maybe you could close your tenure with a classic.

What are your onions?

RPOS GUV X

So, last week we had the first episode of a three partner from Gatiss and Moffat which I have already highlighted as being rather cack in my eyes. Loss of direction, lazy writing, too PC, way off the mark of what Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are all about.

Well, this week saw a return to form. A return to Sherlock being bonkers, cracking music (to be fair it was last week, the score never fails) Mrs Hudson’s past returning, nervous Molly, not enough Le Strade. Watson, dear old Dr W rightly grieving, trying to come to terms with all those mixed up emotions that men aren’t supposed to feel let alone talk about, whilst his hate figure threw himself into a drug fuelled nutterdom melt down.

‘The Lying Detective’, episode two of series 4 was fantastic, plot twist after twist, stress after stress, not too much over action gave us a freeking brilliant 90 minutes of fun/angst/crying/laughing.

Its almost as if the first episode was deliberately dull and poor so the second was even more fantastic, no, brilliant. Loads of quick fire asides, twists, obvious holes which turned out not to be.

The evil little dude from Dads Army was excellent. Just enough smiling assassin without being hammy. His cereal killer advert was ridiculous, he was so overt it was almost a double bluff. The fact he was so revered for his celebrity, philanthropy, he was given the keys to the hospital further enhanced the realism of his evil, when the uncomfortable parallels with a certain 70s figure are unavoidably drawn.

Another Holmes……….complete nut job Euross/youros however you spell it, did she kill Dr W? We know she didn’t as he is in the trailer for next week……..or is he another ghost?

Mary. Last week was so not needed, so unbelievable, over used and underwhelming, so not Sherlock. This week quite brilliant. Mary’s ghost became John’s sounding board, the spokesperson for the audience, played brilliantly, emotionally, funny. This Mary will be missed.

So, next week, the last in the present series, perhaps the last ever it has been declared.

The teaser for next week’s ‘The Final Problem’ points towards all the previous series’/episodes’ have led our Sherlock to his point. There is pondering, solemn chat and an explosion.

Who gives a shit as long as it rockets up and down, twists left and right, messes with our heads and hearts.

Sherlock back on track.

Oh and if Mary wants to pop up again that would be cool as long as Miss Adler comes along…….

What are your onions?

RPOS GUV X

Sherlock – too long or just a little shhhhh

New Years Day and the now annual outing of a new episode of the rightly so brilliant Sherlock starring Ben Chunderbatch and the Hobbit was upon us. 9PM for an hour and a half, titled The Six Thatchers.

Now, to me, I first thought this was going to be about traditional roofers who all mysteriously disappeared in Suffolk after falling prey to a slate roofing magnate but no that would be too silly.

Instead we got a load of plaster casts of the infamous Prime Minister, Maggie T, being busted open for no apparent reason apart from they were coincidentally at the scene of another mystery Sherlock solved (the dude who died in his car disguised as a car seat). Then subsequent events lead the Sherlock to sourcing the buyers of the ‘Maggies’ and attempting to catch the perpetrators.

Whilst scrapping with the fiend in a pool trying to save the last ‘Maggie’ our Sherlock discovers that hidden inside the bust is a memory stick. The same memory stick Mary (The Hobbit’s wife) threw away into an open fire – ‘the past is the past’ she decried.

This then leads to our discovery that the Hobbit’s wife (Mary) was in fact part of a crack unit used by the ‘highest bidder’ as assassins or indeed rescuers. Oh do fuck off.

Are Gatiss and the rest so bereft of ideas that they had to stoop to this nonsense or is the only way to write out the Hobbit’s wife? Seeing as the Hobbit’s wife in real life is now indeed no longer his wife, so had to be got rid of. What better way than making her out to be so right on and powerful which not surprisingly is like the Hobbit’s wife in real life.

There is nothing wrong with powerful capable women – Princess Leia, WonderWoman, Theresa May. So who was this episode for? Not Sherlock fans, not Hobbit fans, so who for?

Story was weak, boring, unbelievable, nothing like Sherlock and so lazy it was farcical.

Thank all things that are Baker Street she is now off (or is she – oh do fuck off) perhaps Gatiss and the other one can get back to slick, witty twisting takes on the classic legendary tales, rather be oh so freeking PC and ‘clever’.

Apologies if you haven’t seen it yet but to be honest I’ve saved you 90mins of piss.

Looks like the next episode will go back to something true to form and what made it so successful in the first place. Sherlock and Dr Watson, Le Strade and Mrs H.

I for one, hope Gatiss and the other one have got their ‘A’ game afoot before they truly leave what is still (just) one of the best interpretations of a classic we have seen.

 

What are your onions?

RPOS GUV X