For starters we’re not given one single case to focus our attention on, well not until it’s revealed that the whole broken Thatcher busts was to do with Mary all along. Tonally it feels odd from beginning to end, like it’s shifting gears but at the wrong speeds and at the wrong points of time in the episode. It’s easy to be somewhat blindsided by this episode, particularly if you’re a fan of the show. And John, well he’s a pacing PTSD timebomb and never wants to see Sherlock again. Mrs Hudson ( Una Stubbs) is a weeping mess. Sherlock, the man who laughed at the notion of ‘sentiment’, ends up seeing a psychiatrist. But the most surprising thing of all is the fallout. Mary, feeling like she owed it to Sherlock takes the Bodyguard-like dive, leaving a banshee-wailing John to weep over her and poor bunny onesie wearing Rosie without a mother. Yes you read right, Mary Watson, in a bid to protect Sherlock, takes a bullet for him, but in the mere moments leading up to that point, Sherlock was deserving of said bullet with his usual goading and deductive gloating. The revelation of all of this comes so fast, like a 1,2 punch, that when the knockout blow does come – the death of Mary Watson – it doesn’t seem like a payoff we deserve. But in typical misdirection, it was neither of these and it was all about Mary’s secret mercenary spy past and another of the A.G.R.A usb flash drives and a member of her former squad somehow alive and out to kill her. Or failing that if it’s not Moriarty maybe it’s to do with the Black Pearl of the Borgias (which Mycroft pesters his younger sibling to look into).
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Sherlock bemuses “There’s a loose thread in the world” at which John retorts “There’s no need to pull on it”, but this is Sherlock so of course he’s going to yank on it.įrom this point forward is where “the game is on” as a slew of Margaret Thatcher busts (buzz in if you can guess how many) end up smashed and Sherlock needs to know if it’s to do with Moriarty ( Andrew Scott, only seen in video ‘miss me?’ flashback). And yet this supposed belter of a case, doesn’t really eventuate to much more than a 2 minute spiel as Sherlock had figured it out almost before they had walked in the door, and was far more curious about a broken bust of Margaret Thatcher. Then finally DI Greg Lesrade ( Rupert Graves) has “a real belter” of a case for our duo’s attention. A brief moment of Sherlock undertaking Godfather duties and babysitting Rosie whilst a wiped out Mary and John kip on the couch, adds a little laugh. We are then treated to a montage of Sherlock solving cases with a quick snarky quip and visual overlays of John’s blog text of the cases and then bam, Mary Watson ( Amanda Abbington) goes into labour and baby Rosamund Mary Watson (aka Rosie) arrives to shake things up a little. Mainly because the threat of Moriarty looms and Sherlock’s answer to the threat …. But courtesy of his brother Mycroft it all gets swept cleanly under the rug courtesy of the British Government.
#REVIEW SHERLOCK SEASON 4 EPISODE 2 FULL#
Sherlock Holmes ( Benedict Cumberbatch) shooting Charles Augustus Magnussen ( Lars Mikkelsen) in full view of his partner Dr John Watson ( Martin Freeman), his brother Mycroft Holmes ( Mark Gatiss) and a squad of secret service tactical officers.
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We kick off Season 4 with ‘The Six Thatchers’ and in what seems like not very Sherlock-style we’re taken to the Department of Backstory with about a 5 minute recap with what happened in ‘His Last Vow’ two years ago.
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Obviously this review is going to have spoilers, so if you haven’t watched the episode yet, maybe get cracking on that before you read all of this. Thanks to streaming service provider Stan, Australia gets each episode of Season 4 within hours of it airing in the UK. Ready the tea and make sure you’ve got your shock blanket handy because BBC Sherlock is back and here to emotionally ruin you all over again with a brand new series.