The Final Problem (S04E03)

This is no longer eccentric, narcissistic, or convoluted. This is ... just a stupid scream fest. Please, no more family therapies, forgotten family members or dogs that used to be human. I hope that Gatiss and Moffat enjoyed their incest party and pass the creative reins to someone who can combine more than two identical elements and the "I'm someone else" twist. (16/01/2017)

What is surprising is that the episode for which the ground has been prepared since the end of the second season would worked in the same manner as the episode of Doctor Who. And what is even more surprising that the local "Saw storyline (with Fort Boyard dimension)" has already been used in Sherlock once. Only this time it´s much better. On the other hand, it cannot be denied that it is fun, it keeps perfect pace and it can be just as exciting as ridiculously emotional. And so, in the end, what is most harmful is the fact that in the final twenty minutes it will take three steps backwards, or several years of indicating, and the created fateful tension is completely wasted. (15/01/2017)

It was actually quite decent... Until it became Saw and I started wishing it would be over before it got worse. Sherlock has changed remarkably in four seasons. I don't just mean the central character, who has turned from an eccentric, brilliantly thinking antisocial to a an absolute psychopath dangerous to himself, to those close and far from him - by that I mean the whole series, which went from something unexpectedly amazing to something unexpectedly unsuccessful. I'm not angry, but I'm very disappointed. However, I will be happy to return to the first two seasons. They were good, the episodes built on each other and did not refute each other. (30/04/2021)

No, I would say that the final episode was the best of the fourth season. However, I couldn't give it more than two stars, which is a shame. The episode did have an interesting storyline in a way, but I can't help feeling that the creators stole from the Saw series. The character Bůh východního větru (God of the East Wind) was added to the plot just for the sake of having something to talk about, and so on. (17/04/2019)

This was just too overwrought for me. It's like the creators didn't know how much more to complicate things to make it truly surprising. I'm just waiting for the next season where there will be more super villains and those episodes will be even weirder, so that in the end, it all makes even more sense. I still love the show, but maybe it needs to end. (31/01/2017)