Do you love cliffhangers? The second episode of season 4 is for you. It's been 15 episodes since the show's inception, and so everyone is already expecting the unexpected and assuming the unpredictable. In the previous episode, Watson's wife tragically left him, and the doctor is forced to see a psychologist, as his late wife keeps turning up.
Sherlock is also taken aback by Mary Watson's death, and so he once again throws himself into the investigation , in order to fulfill the dead woman's last wishes.
The continuation of the story fully picks up the story that began with Moriaty's rediscovery, Watson being depressed and Sherlock becoming addicted to drugs. The two team up against a very wealthy financier who is, possibly, a serial killer. It's all about saving other people.
Benedict Cumberbatch is a really good actor, the whole series is based on him and he managed to elevate this episode to an excellent level as well. Benedict certainly enjoys his Sherlock and is certainly having discussions with the main creators over the character being on a drug binge.
The creators have set up Martin Freeman as a sad widower who is looking after his young daughter. The only thing that could save him from dying of depression is saving the people around him.
The villain of this episode is played by the already experienced actor Toby Jones, who has managed to inject enough psychopathic charisma into his character to make us believe he can kill without blinking an eye.
The story seems pretty simple to begin with, just an investigation and the piecing together of a motive from clues given by a mysterious girl, but from the second half onwards we get a few twists and turns that at first invalidate any theories and ultimately confirm that Sherlock is actually a show in which a lot of things happen at the behest of mysterious and deranged people.
I do have to fault the theme of the possibility of (self) murdering Sherlock a bit though, we already had that in the very first episode, it was handled much more realistically there. Now it's becoming more of a sci-fi series in its own universe of London, where an unrealistic investigation is taking place with an unrealistic killer.
I'm curious to see what we're in for next week, I predict a lot of action with some possible self-sacrifice as the last shot ends with Watson staring down the barrel of a loaded gun.
Original article August 3, 2018 – Kritiky.cz
