![]() It is bittersweet – and very British – to acknowledge the miracle of this wondrous mind while also showing that the public would have never believed such a thing (many parallels to The Prestige, a movie that I really enjoy pondering about). Ending the series in the tragic irony that Sherlock has lived but we would have never believed it because the tabloids have “proven” that he was a fraud. The writing, the acting, the suspense… everything was top notch.Īs Watson and Sherlock shared their final (?) phonecall I was in awe: could a series be this bold and draw the line? End at the peak of the series with a villain who has a plan that shames almost every comic book movie in existence (see my trashing of Iron Man 2) and doing something nobody expects: killing off both villain and hero as neither wants to give their enemy the upper hand. So as the final moments of The Reichenbach Fall (S02E03) approached and it was one of the best 1.5 hours I have seen in recent years. And because of this I was entirely prepared that Sherlock might end after “only” 6 episodes. Compare that to the American Office with 201 episodes. Ricky Gervais’s show The Office consists of 2 seasons with 6 episodes each. That’s the thing I love about British TV. So when the final episode of Season 2 came around I had no idea that there would be a third Season. I had no idea about the series aside from the fact that everyone who had watched it highly recommended it. I watched Sherlock pretty much in one sitting. Why I hated the ending of Season 2 and dread Season 3 This essay will contain spoilers for Season 1-2 of Sherlock and will go into the depths of my fears for Season 3: And after the cliffhanger from Season 2 featuring a confrontation between Sherlock and his archenemy Jim Moriarty (Andrew Scott) we had to wait 2 years to find out what happened in these final moments. Inda House (yes, check it out just to see Freeman as a gangsta!)) as Dr. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch ( Star Trek Into Darkness, The Hobbit) as the title giving detective and Martin Freeman ( The Hobbit, Ali G. On January 1st the British re-interpration of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes will return in the form of the third Season of BBC’s Sherlock. ![]()
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