There are many different interpretations of the Sherlock Holmes stories. This particular one works best with only Captain Gregson, Det. Bell, Watson and Sherlock. Tolerable sidecharacters are some irregulars, "everyone" and the sister of Watson and some I probably forgot. Kitty was pretty cool, though and you can never go wrong with screentime of Natalie Dormer. Everyone else feels like interrupting the great dynamics of the aformentioned main characters.
That's why I hated Shinwell and I am glad he's out, although sad that the actor actually died. Or that he had to die for the character to be removed from the show in the first place. He didn't add anything interesting to the show whatsoever. Alfredo was a necessity as a sponsor and later on as a friend but he vanished for an extended period of time and so his relevance to the show and Sherlock vanished as well. Yet the writers do find a trivial and contrived reason to let him re-appear: to tell Sherlock holding grudges is stupid and then let him be out again. Greaat. Just enable last episode's plot of Sherlock trying to reconcile with his brother who - oh surprise - is (supposedly really) dead and enable this episode's plot of Sherlock trying to reconcile with his father as well.
I understand the writers thought the show would end after 12/13 episodes until they got a backorder. However, I don't find last episode's or this episode's story compelling, intriguing or even good. Poorest episodes this season so far. While holding grudges is definitely pointless, keeping toxic people out of your live is not. If this includes certain family members, so be it. The family of Sherlock is incredibly toxic and they all lie whenever they open their mouth and are otherwise plotting against each other. Everyone who was involved with them knows that, yet they get chance after chance after chance for no other reason than family? That is incredibly annoying and just as pointless as holding grudges. This ruins these episodes for me.
Review by ds1BlockedParentSpoilers2018-11-04T17:51:30Z
There are many different interpretations of the Sherlock Holmes stories. This particular one works best with only Captain Gregson, Det. Bell, Watson and Sherlock. Tolerable sidecharacters are some irregulars, "everyone" and the sister of Watson and some I probably forgot. Kitty was pretty cool, though and you can never go wrong with screentime of Natalie Dormer. Everyone else feels like interrupting the great dynamics of the aformentioned main characters.
That's why I hated Shinwell and I am glad he's out, although sad that the actor actually died. Or that he had to die for the character to be removed from the show in the first place. He didn't add anything interesting to the show whatsoever.
Alfredo was a necessity as a sponsor and later on as a friend but he vanished for an extended period of time and so his relevance to the show and Sherlock vanished as well. Yet the writers do find a trivial and contrived reason to let him re-appear: to tell Sherlock holding grudges is stupid and then let him be out again. Greaat.
Just enable last episode's plot of Sherlock trying to reconcile with his brother who - oh surprise - is (supposedly really) dead and enable this episode's plot of Sherlock trying to reconcile with his father as well.
I understand the writers thought the show would end after 12/13 episodes until they got a backorder.
However, I don't find last episode's or this episode's story compelling, intriguing or even good.
Poorest episodes this season so far. While holding grudges is definitely pointless, keeping toxic people out of your live is not.
If this includes certain family members, so be it. The family of Sherlock is incredibly toxic and they all lie whenever they open their mouth and are otherwise plotting against each other. Everyone who was involved with them knows that, yet they get chance after chance after chance for no other reason than family?
That is incredibly annoying and just as pointless as holding grudges.
This ruins these episodes for me.