Let’s be clear: This review does not endorse murder, mentally manipulating people, arson, or any of the other nasty things that the youngest Holmes gets up to. She hits the nail on the head when, in a recording of a psychological assessment, she says that she’s institutionalized because she’s “too clever.”
Euros, though? She was “incandescent… an era-defining genius beyond Newton.” Sadly, we don’t see any evidence of this beyond her almost-supernatural ability to manipulate people. It’s been a running joke that while Sherlock is the cleverest man John has ever met, Mycroft is even cleverer. The Female of the Species Is Deadlier Than the Male Much like Sherlock, the show’s big reveal was that the mastermind behind a few seasons’ worth of torture and mind games was a sister obsessed with a younger sibling and locked away for being a psychopath - although deep down, she just wants to be loved. Wait, this isn’t “Pretty Little Liars”? You’d be forgiven for wondering if you’d switched to the wrong channel, because the Greatest Detective has taken a few leaves out of the ABC Family/Freeform show’s playbook. The 35 Best Romance Movies of the 21st Century, from 'High Fidelity' to 'Carol'Īfter several seasons of game playing, faked deaths and disguises, the truth is out – Euros Holmes is A. The 15 Best Survival Movies, from 'Cast Away' to 'The Revenant' 'The Captain' Review: ESPN Series Works Better as a Team Effort Than a Derek Jeter Story
'Better Call Saul' Review: A Mournful 'Fun and Games' Watches Everyone Fail to Fix What's Broken It’s suitably creepy, but presumably saying, “We know she’s alive because she just shot John with a tranquilizer gun” would have also done the trick. The Hammer horror-infused nightmare is just Sherlock and John trying to scare him into telling the truth about Euros.
The opening of the episode is pure Gatiss - in what seems like it must be a dream sequence but isn’t, Mycroft is haunted by the voice of his sister (represented by what we assume is a little girl but is actually a small man in a wig), a clown, and portraits that weep blood. It’s just a shame the rest of the episode was such a mess, really. Although cast and crew insist that this isn’t necessarily the end, Steven Moffatt and Mark Gatiss wrap up their 13th episode on an elegiac note, musing on the legend that is Sherlock and Watson. Season 4 of Sherlock has galloped by - which is easy enough, when the seasons are only three episodes long - but it ends on an oddly final note. LAST WEEK’S REVIEW: “The Lying Detective’ Gives Us Sherlock’s Most Terrifying Villain Yet