Why is there a graveyard with strange dates in front of Sherlock’s family home? Why does Sherlock only refer to his childhood friend as ‘Redbeard’? How many childhood friends do you remember by their nicknames from that one time you played pirates? Why didn’t Eurus brainwash John? He was alone with her for hours when she pretended to be his therapist.

If Eurus is so insane, how can she have pretended to be John’s psychiatrist?

If Mycroft, Sherlock, and John feared that the island prison had been compromised, why didn’t they march in with a small army? They could have prevented a lot of grief. At least not the mind control in this episode, which works by five minutes of talking with the target aware they are being controlled and still unable to resist. Mycroft should be doing years of jail time for that kind of crap. Why doesn’t anybody point out that faking your sister’s death and keeping her locked up in a prison like Mycroft did is a serious crime. Why does Eurus try to blow up Sherlock, John, and Mycroft with a grenade? She goes ballistic later, when Sherlock tries to kill himself, so why take the risk of killing him here? They’re not in any order, but I really need to get these off my chest. A list of smaller issuesįirst off, a list of the tiny annoyances I experienced. Everybody is saved and they live happily ever after. It leads back to her, because it turns out that all she wanted was a friend. Sherlock uses his powers of deduction to solve his sister’s riddle. Now she wants to re-enact this with John. Then Eurus takes John and Sherlock to Sherlock’s old home, where there is another twist: she did not kill Sherlock’s dog, but his childhood friend. The puzzles are deadly, until Sherlock tries to shoot himself instead of Mycroft/John. Oh, right, and it turns out that she and Moriarty were friends. Eurus send Sherlock through a deadly puzzle-maze filled with death and horror. Things escalate quickly, as Eurus has brainwashed the guards and takes control of the prison. Sherlock, Mycroft, and John travel to the island to see their sister. Later, Mycroft Holmes faked his sister’s death and locked her up in a secret black-site prison, keeping it secret from everyone, including their parents. She was committed afterwards, and Sherlock blocked it all out. I was completely flummoxed that Sherlock had not recognized her, but as it turns out in ‘the final problem’, he has blocked his sister from his memory completely.Įurus killed Sherlock’s dog when he was a child and burned down their parental house. In the second episode of the season, we found out that Sherlock has a sister we knew nothing about called Eurus *gasp*. I will spoil the final Sherlock episode ‘the Final Problem’. The show contains so many tiny twists and call-backs to previous episodes that I can’t do it justice without spoiling things. I’m not even going to try to keep this spoiler free. Shortly thereafter weird things happen to Watson: pages of his notebooks are cut out with a razor, threatening letters appear, and he is even assaulted!Īll is clear in the end and the reader even goes on a journey back in time to when Holmes is still alive and meets Crazy Ludwig of Bavaria.I wasn’t planning to write more about Sherlock season 4, but the season finale was so mindbogglingly terrible, I have to take to the pen again. The classic second fiddle companion decided to put forth the request for letters, stories and information about Holmes that would allow him to compose a complete biography. Watson’s life and two years after Holmes has died. The drama begins in the present day, late in Dr. You know that there will be a mystery involved that will take you down a classic path of Holmesian logic. Watson and immediately when you read the first sentence of this book you are hooked. I have tried many times in the past to read other selections by Sena Jeter Naslund and I always hit a brick wall…namely with “ Ahab’s Wife,” but I think I might try picking it up again (2017 note: I never did.) The story of Sherlock Homes in love is told in the first person by Dr. This #TBT review was originally posted on Januand was read for a number of reading challenges: A to Z Titles (N), Themed, Back to History and 101 Books in 1,001 Days.

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