#REVIEW SHERLOCK THE FINAL PROBLEM SERIES#
#REVIEW SHERLOCK THE FINAL PROBLEM TV#

So what was it that we found out about Sherlock? That fundamentally heвЂ™s sentimental and driven by emotion. That part of SherlockвЂ™s character had to be confronted at some point-the show couldnвЂ™t go on indefinitely without explaining why he is the person he is, and I think this was a good juncture and a very good way of doing it. I generally think it was done well, and the revelations about SherlockвЂ™s past and how those childhood traumas shaped him were interesting, well-conceived and necessary. At the same time, it was also about what made Eurus, and SherlockвЂ™s personal significanceВ in making Eurus. Eurus made the Sherlock we know-or we thought we knew. The episode was about EurusвЂ™s obsession with Sherlock and, more fundamentally, the significance of Eurus in SherlockвЂ™s life. She was a superhuman genius completely devoid of morality or human feeling, but she wasnвЂ™t here to destroy or conquer or seize, although I think thereвЂ™s little doubt sheвЂ™s capable of all of that. It was about answering the question put by John to Sherlock in The Abominable Bride, вЂњWhat made you like this?вЂќ That moment was a little bit of foreshadowing for what we discovered in The Final Problem, because the John who asked that question was a figment of SherlockвЂ™s drug-addled imagination-Sherlock, or rather SherlockвЂ™s subconscious, was putting that question to himself, because Sherlock subconsciously knew how the events of his childhood involving Redbeard and Eurus had fundamentally shaped who was and who he has been ever since that fateful incident.Д®urus was not a villain in the mould of Moriarty or Magnussen. It was all about Sherlock, about delving deeper into SherlockвЂ™s past, into his subconscious even, in order to uncover the secrets of his past and help him and us understand him better.

The Final Problem exemplifies the swing towards character drama more than any other episode yet, I think.

#REVIEW SHERLOCK THE FINAL PROBLEM SERIES#

Over Series 3 and 4, though, the pendulum has swung decidedly in the direction of character drama and away from crime-solving, such that the crime-solving, once central to the show, is now almost superficial decoration for a show that is now predominantly a character drama about the life of an extraordinary man who happens to be a detective. To put it pithily, people come to Sherlock for the crime-solving but stay for the absorbing and well-written characters.

#REVIEW SHERLOCK THE FINAL PROBLEM TV#

Character drama has always been at the heart of Sherlock, and itвЂ™s one of the reasons, if not the predominant reason, that Sherlock has become the most popular TV adaptation of Conan DoyleвЂ™s stories ever.

I began my reviews of Sherlock Series 4 by commenting on how far the show had evolved from its origins as predominantly a crime drama to now a show which revolves around character drama.

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