review sherlock holmes the final problem

#REVIEW SHERLOCK HOLMES THE FINAL PROBLEM FULL#

But equally, it’d be the easiest thing in the world, dramatically speaking, to pick up the threads in Series 5. If they wanted to, Moffat and Gatiss could leave Sherlock there and have it feel like a complete adventure. On those grounds, The Final Problem is a signal success.

#REVIEW SHERLOCK HOLMES THE FINAL PROBLEM FULL#

And you need to leave us in a place where we, metaphorically, push away from the table, satisfied, full but not bloated, and smiling at what we’ve just received. You need to take us on a nerve-shredding roller-coaster ride. You need to enrich what we know about the characters, what we understand about their dynamics and relationships. You need to satisfy both dewy-eyed fans and hard-assed logicians. But when you call a series finale (or indeed a short story) The Final Problem, you put a series of demands on yourself – you need to be able to leave it alone by the end of the episode. There may well be a Sherlock, Series 5 – the end of The Final Problem does double duty as a potential resetting of scenes, with Holmes and Watson as the final resource of the desperate, there in 221b Baker Street, or as a wrap-up that could leave them there preserved in amber and our memories, allowing us to have the pleasure and the responsibility of imagining their adventures from this point on. There are plenty of end-points, but the ‘final’ end suggests you’re going away and never coming back. It’s the sort of word you use if you’re planning to close a book, end a series, put a big full-stop at the end of something.

Review sherlock holmes the final problem