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- DirectorPaul McGuiganStarsBenedict CumberbatchMartin FreemanRupert GravesWar vet Dr. John Watson returns to London in need of a place to stay. He meets Sherlock Holmes, a consulting detective, and the two soon find themselves digging into a string of serial "suicides."Pleasant surprise
26 February 2017
Considering that seasons have three episodes each and that episodes last hour and a half, we can look on it as a movie serial. Last night I saw the first "episode" and I am pleasantly surprised. It is smart, witty and lots of fun. Slightly reminds me of "Lucifer". I can not say I'm thrilled, but I surely look forward to the next episode. I don't regret starting it so late, because having three episodes a year is really sadistic.
8/10 - DirectorEuros LynStarsBenedict CumberbatchMartin FreemanUna StubbsMysterious symbols and murders are showing up all over London, leading Sherlock and John to a secret Chinese crime syndicate called Black Lotus."Don't worry, next date won't be like this"
03 March 2017
A serious decline in quality compared to the first episode. I saw it last night and I already forgot what was it about. It is not boring, but leaves no impression. A hollow episode, full of genre cliches.
6/10
"Though maintaining an engaging rapport between its two protagonists and an imaginative filmmaking style, Sherlock sees a severe step back in quality in "The Blind Banker", a generic whodunit follow-up to the phenomenal pilot. There aren't any exciting villains or really interesting supporting characters, as both Mycroft and Lestrade have gone AWOL, and the feature-length second episode has a pace and thrill problem in general.
Curiously, it takes quite some time for that to become clear, as "The Blind Banker" commences with a lot of witty moments and the type of brilliant dead-pan situation analysing I've already grown to adore about Benedict Cumberbatch's Holmes. However, after some thirty minutes, screenwriter Stephen Thompson appears to have run out of supplies and in exchange opts for only re-writing the source material and including an awful lot of detective story clichés. Neither would I have been surprised nor disappointed by that – at the time Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had been writing his Sherlock Holmes novels, these sorts of storytelling techniques hadn't been counting as clichés and this series is still an adaption of his works after all – hadn't the crime-solving part consumed such a vast portion of the episode, incorporating the development of John and Sherlock's relationship and the introduction of Sarah a bit sloppily just along the way.
For the crime story and its outcome itself, well, it's surely not on the qualitative upper end of all Sherlock Holmes stories and it will hardly be remembered for its clever or even genuinely threatening antagonists. And as if to secure that this episode is inferior to the whole rest of the bunch by an English-Channel-sized margin with all means available, there's also a colossal bouquet of plot holes to indulge in, along with some general oversimplifying, i.e. Sherlock and John ambling through the not particularly tiny city of London and encountering important hints for unravelling the murders as frequently as bookstalls. Then there's the ever-present prowess of Sherlock Holmes that does go beyond the boundaries of believability a handful of times in "The Blind Banker", but I guess that's something you've got to accept with such a series and its other installments don't very much exclude it either.
"The Blind Banker" surely is a fun time to watch and benefits from passionate acting, excellent dialogue, and the basic idea behind Sherlock that is, of course, kept on with. However, whether it's viewed with a critical eye or not, this episode is simply subpar to all of the series's others and maybe would have been better off receiving a second attempt at filming it, just as the pilot had been." - axel-koch - DirectorPaul McGuiganStarsBenedict CumberbatchMartin FreemanRupert GravesMycroft needs Sherlock's help, but a remorseless criminal mastermind puts Sherlock on a distracting crime-solving spree via a series of hostage human bombs through which he speaks.Better than the first one
09 March 2017
It seems that the previous episode was just a misfortunate accident, because the third one is even better than the pilot. Sherlock irresistibly reminds me of Sheldon from "Big Bang Theory", with his extreme intelligence and even more extreme social maladjustment combined with arrogance, which is a source of endless fun. Intelligent, complicated and very witty. I didn't like Moriarty too much, but Sherlock and Watson are great enough to compensate for any possible weaknesses of this show.
8,5/10 - DirectorPaul McGuiganStarsBenedict CumberbatchMartin FreemanUna StubbsSherlock must confiscate something of importance from a mysterious woman named Irene Adler.Great thriller
09 March 2017
This "episode" confirms my stance that this is more of a movie franchise than typical series. The only thing that divides this from, for example, "Harry Potter" franchise is that it's a TV production and not a theater movie. A "Scandal in Belgravia" is not only the best episode so far, but it is in every way individual thriller movie, and a great one.
8,5/10 - DirectorPaul McGuiganStarsBenedict CumberbatchMartin FreemanUna StubbsSherlock and John investigate the ghosts of a young man who has been seeing monstrous hounds out in the woods where his father died."Twenty-year-old disappearance? A monstrous hound? I wouldn't miss this for the world"
19 March 2017
An interesting way to place "The Hound of the Baskervilles" in the 21st century. In my opinion, this story should be a bit more creepy, but certainly very well done.
8/10 - DirectorToby HaynesStarsBenedict CumberbatchMartin FreemanUna StubbsJim Moriarty hatches a mad scheme to turn the whole city against Sherlock.Cruel cliffhanger
19 March 2017
Good episode and a damn great cliffhanger. I hate when they do this. I'm so glad that I didn't watch this back when it was released, because those evil people left us to wait two years to find out what really happened. Two years, that's cruel as it can be.
9/10 - DirectorJeremy LoveringStarsAmanda AbbingtonGeorge ApplebyJonathan ArisJohn and Lestrade try to move on with their lives after Sherlock's apparent death. However, Anderson believes he is still alive.
- DirectorJeremy LoveringStarsBenedict CumberbatchMartin FreemanUna StubbsMycroft calls Sherlock back to London to investigate an underground terrorist organization.Underrated
19 March 2017
My favorite episode so far. It's badly bashed online because it really has its flaws. The main argument is that this episode is more of a parody to Sherlock than it is new Sherlock story. The fact is that this episode does not bring new complicated crime and Sherlock's genius solution, and to a certain extent I can understand the disappointment of those who waited two years for this episode. But I, who waited for it just a few minutes, really cannot recall last time I had so much fun. It may be bad from the crime/mystery genre point of view, but it's not written in the stone that every episode must follow that pattern. It's premium entertainment and I am thrilled.
9/10
However, I have one objection. It is not a big deal and most of the audience won't even notice it, because it is obvious only to former Yugoslavian audience and Russians, but it needlessly undermines the quality of this awesome show. I will quote Bosnian guy who presented this issue par excellence:
"Besides Serbs always being the bad guys, torturing someone when they have nothing else to do, how come they wear Russian parade uniforms and talk their Serbian like a parrot with Aerosinusitis, which is hardly intelligible. I know that Mycroft had few hours to learn Serbian, but the other Serbian guy speaks his mother tongue like a text-to-speech software. It seems that using google translate instead of human keeps production costs low... just as the quality of it." - DirectorColm McCarthyStarsBenedict CumberbatchMartin FreemanUna StubbsSherlock tries to give the perfect best man speech at John's wedding when he suddenly realizes a murder is about to take place."The universe is rarely so lazy"
27 March 2017
One of the best episode/movie openings ever. Sherlock screwed both Sheldon and Lucifer. This was awesome :D
9/10 - DirectorNick HurranStarsBenedict CumberbatchMartin FreemanUna StubbsSherlock goes up against Charles Augustus Magnussen, media tycoon and a notorious blackmailer."I'm not a hero, I'm a high-functioning sociopath"
05 April 2017
8/10 - DirectorDouglas MackinnonStarsBenedict CumberbatchMartin FreemanUna StubbsSherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson find themselves in 1890s London in this Christmas special.Too much
19 April 2017
Christmas special brings something different than previous "episodes" we are used to. I liked the idea and movie had all predispositions to be the best "episode" so far, but unfortunately, it isn't. I cannot point my finger exactly and say "Look, that's what spoiled it all," but something's off. I think the best explanation would be to say that in this "episode" everything is too much. Everything is on the right path, but it goes too far, and even the best things in life lose their charms when they're overdone.
7/10 - DirectorRachel TalalayStarsBenedict CumberbatchMartin FreemanUna StubbsSherlock takes on the case of finding out who is going around and smashing six unique head statues of late Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher."Is your friend quite mad? - No, he's an arsehole, but it's an easy mistake."
28 April 2017
8/10 - DirectorNick HurranStarsBenedict CumberbatchMartin FreemanUna StubbsSherlock goes up against the powerful and seemingly unassailable Culverton Smith - a man with a very dark secret indeed."Stop talking. It makes me aware of your existence."
28 April 2017
8/10 - DirectorBenjamin CaronStarsBenedict CumberbatchMartin FreemanMark GatissA dark secret in the Holmes family rears its head with a vengeance, putting Sherlock and friends through a series of sick, manipulative psychological and potentially fatal games.Good movie and a terrible series finale
13 May 2017
Last night I finished "Sherlock" and my feelings are mixed. The final episode is a very amusing movie that I really enjoyed from the beginning to the end, but at the other hand, that movie has nothing to do with "Sherlock" and what that show was and should have stayed till the end. Everything that bought me in the pilot episode was more or less there throughout the first 3 seasons and even partially in the fourth. But in the "grand finale" it disappeared without a trace. Instead of intelligent, witty and reasonably complicated crime drama that would round the story, authors delivered too fast, a completely surreal and unsustainable, formulaic and unoriginal combination of "SHIELD"-like SF, "Silence of the Lambs", "Shutter Island" and "Saw". To everyone who saw "Saw" this episode is screaming: "Rip off! Rip off!" At the same time, I enjoyed watching an entertaining movie and I was disappointed that there is no final episode of what once was one of the greatest TV shows of all time. But, I never saw "Sherlock" as a TV series. To me, it was more of a movie franchise. So I will neglect the context of series, in which this episode is a complete failure, and rate it as a standalone movie that I pretty much enjoyed.
8/10