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Review: Sherlock Season 4 (by Pixel )

Disclaimer: DO NOT proceed reading this article if you have not watched all four seasons of Sherlock. This article contains SPOILERS, and might therefore ruin your viewing experience.

The fourth season of BBC's popular crime drama Sherlock was completed January 15th, 2017. Although it has been almost two months, I think that this remarkable season deserves some more attention.

Firstly, let's take a brief look at the show as a whole. BBC's Sherlock is based on the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who created the detective stories featuring Sherlock Holmes in the late 1800s. BBC's version, which is set in modern time, first aired July 2010. The show is written by Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat (who also stars in the show as Sherlock's brother Mycroft Holmes!).

The show's lead characters, Sherlock Holmes and his faithful companion Doctor John Watson, are portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman. Throughout a total of 13 episodes, we've seen this iconic duo solve a number of challenging and often life-threatening crimes.
Now, on to the topic of discussion - season four. I'll start by summarizing the main events of each of the three episodes through a bullet point list.

Episode 1: The Six Thatchers
  • Mary and John's baby, Rosamund Mary, is born.
  • Sherlock solves a case involving the unexpected death of the son of a Conservative cabinet minister.
  • A former member of A.G.R.A, Ajay, is looking to kill Mary.
  • Ajay was, in fact, looking for Lady Smallwood, but had mistaken Mary to be his target.
  • Vivian Norbury kills Mary.
  • Sherlock finds a DVD with a posthumous message from Mary, where she urges him to save John.

Episode 2: The Lying Detective
  • Sherlock and John remain distant after Mary's death.
  • John is seeing a new therapist and hides the fact that he sees hallucinations of Mary.
  • A prominent entrepreneur and philanthropist, Culverton Smith, confesses to a group of close colleagues - including his own daughter - that he is going to kill someone. He then forces the group to subject to a medical serum that causes them to forget his confession.
  • The daughter, Faith, reaches out to Sherlock for help. She is able to remember fragments of the event that she wrote down shortly after being drugged.
  • Sherlock becomes obsessed with Smith, who is giving subtle hints of being a serial killer.
  • Sherlock puts his own life in danger as a part of an elaborate plan to expose Smith. This also compels John to rescue him, thereby "saving" himself like Mary asked, and mending their friendship.
  • In John's next therapy session, it is revealed that his therapist and Faith are the same person - none other than Sherlock's and Mycroft's secret sibling, Eurus Holmes.

Episode 3: The Final Problem
  • A young girl wakes up on an airplane, due to a phone ringing. She picks up and hears Moriarty announce "Welcome to the Final Problem."
  • Mycroft reveals that Eurus was sent away to a mental institution, Sherrinford, after she burned their family home.
  • Sherlock, Mycroft, and John travel to Sherrinford.
  • Mycroft reveals that five years ago, Eurus was granted five minutes of unsupervised conversation with Moriarty as a Christmas present.
  • Eurus forces Sherlock, Mycroft and John into a series of tormenting psychological games, resulting in the death of several people - in order to save the girl on the plane.
  • Sherlock wakes up near his old home and helps the girl safely land the plane.
  • Sherlock realizes that Redbeard was not a dog, but his friend Victor Trevor, who Eurus murdered as a child because she felt left out of Sherlock's attention.
  • The girl on the plane was a mental metaphor Eurus used as a cry for help.
  • Sherlock succeeds in sending Eurus back to Sherrinford, where he now visits her regularly to play violin together.

As the summary proves, the fourth season of Sherlock is no less action-packed what we've seen from this spectacular show before. Also, it sparked quite an emotional response to once again witness John experience the loss of a loved one (and for real this time!). Personally, I found the result of Eurus' and Moriarty's five-minute conversation quite terrifying - and the showdown between the Holmes' siblings (with John in the middle of it all) was nerve-wracking to watch.

Yet, season four was not all perfect. With Sherlock being a genius of deduction, it simply doesn't add up that he didn't recognize John's therapist and Faith to be the same person - considering the fact that Eurus used quite a simple disguise. The ending of The Final Problem was also somewhat ... anti-climactic? Although Eurus' mental metaphor was clever writing, I feel like the episode might have deserved a more spectacular ending. But that might just be me.

Altogether, I think Gatiss and Moffat created another masterpiece. A fifth season is confirmed to have been plotted by the writer duo, but they have not yet decided whether or not to produce it. If not, I can gladly accept season four as a worthy finale to the adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor John Watson.

Would you like Gatiss and Moffat to produce the fifth season of the show?

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Private wrote on 22-03 15:32:
Linlid wrote:
Sherlock is my favorite TV series. I love it! So clever and great. I would love a fifth season!! 
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Private wrote on 22-03 01:39:
Ainsley wrote:
ahHHhhhhhHHhhHhhHhh one of my fav shows ever
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Pixel wrote on 21-03 20:40:
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Malinz wrote:
Oh my god I love Sherlock.
And apologies, but the perfectionist in me is screaming, because some things in this article aren't correct. First, it's Mark Gatiss, not Gattis. 
Also, Mary wasn't killed by lady Smallwood, it was Vivian Norbury. 
And last, Faith was an actual person, Eurus only pretended to be her that night she went to Sherlock. Apart from that, we see the actual Faith every time. 
I hope you don't hate me for correcting you.... Sorry. 
of course I don't hate you for it, thank you for letting us know!! I should've proof-read more thorougly. @malinz 
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Private wrote on 21-03 20:16:
Remains wrote:
Season 4 was meh. I think they killed Mary off too quick and most parts of the episodes were kinda forgettable. it didn't have the same kind of excitement as the earlier seasons? I kinda hope there won't be another season lmao
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Fiskarna wrote on 21-03 19:59:
Fiskarna wrote:
Malinz wrote:
Oh my god I love Sherlock.
And apologies, but the perfectionist in me is screaming, because some things in this article aren't correct. First, it's Mark Gatiss, not Gattis. 
Also, Mary wasn't killed by lady Smallwood, it was Vivian Norbury. 
And last, Faith was an actual person, Eurus only pretended to be her that night she went to Sherlock. Apart from that, we see the actual Faith every time. 
I hope you don't hate me for correcting you.... Sorry. 
i went ahead and fixed the first two. i dunno how to word the last one. 
thank you for your corrections!
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Malinz wrote on 21-03 19:31:
Malinz wrote:
Oh my god I love Sherlock.
And apologies, but the perfectionist in me is screaming, because some things in this article aren't correct. First, it's Mark Gatiss, not Gattis. 
Also, Mary wasn't killed by lady Smallwood, it was Vivian Norbury. 
And last, Faith was an actual person, Eurus only pretended to be her that night she went to Sherlock. Apart from that, we see the actual Faith every time. 
I hope you don't hate me for correcting you.... Sorry. 
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Wisteria wrote on 21-03 19:31:
Wisteria wrote:
i HATED season 4. it didn't make any sense and was a major downgrade from anything before. waiting so long only to be shown this was a major let down for me, i found myself annoyed after watching the episodes and had a greater time poking fun at it than actually enjoying the content. nah, gotta disagree there. i wish they would end it soon and not drag on something that will probably never get any better, but only go the path as most tv-shows do and decline after season 4.
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Sinful wrote on 21-03 19:24:
Sinful wrote:
i love this series, great article and awesome layout!
s4 wasn't the greatest season but I enjoyed watching it. and idk I kinda hope it was the last season of Sherlock.
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Lipstick231 wrote on 21-03 17:56:
Lipstick231 wrote:
the serie was amazing
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Private wrote on 21-03 16:57:
Ara wrote:
Season 4 was.. It didn't make any sense. It's super suspicious.

I did like ep 2, and I did feel the suspense in ep 3. But still, season 4 contained so many plot holes and just, general weird stuff. I've got a whole list of things.

I do wonder if/what Gatiss and Moffat are planning..
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Wout wrote on 21-03 15:25:
Wout wrote:
gorgeousssssssssssss 
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Private wrote on 21-03 15:23:
Myrcella wrote:
i am stunned yet again by the amazing work of pixel & fiskarna
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