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