![]() ![]() The show, and frankly any mystery, is at its best when it lays out all of the clues so that the viewer can play along. Sherlock was often an unlikable character who would get away with a lot of emotional manipulation with no consequences, but there is nothing more manipulative than making Eurus such an unbelievably vile antagonist and then using her as a conduit for Sherlock to become "wise and humane." If this is the end of the show as we know it, it will remain more of a dirge than a requiem. ![]() ![]() There's a good bulk of "The Final Problem" that feels like straight-up misery porn, pushing our characters to their emotional limits in ways that feel unpleasant, unfair, and wholly unlike the 11 episodes that came before it. It's an insultingly rushed development that needed far more time than one episode to earn. Eurus takes this frustration several steps further, actively upending Moriarty as Sherlock's prime nemesis and, by extension, two entire seasons' worth of mysteries. "Sherlock" had always been a series obsessed with one-upping its own audience, oftentimes to an annoying degree. Most of its problems boil down to Eurus Holmes, a late-stage mega-villain and one of the sloppiest "gotchas" in all of television.
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