Nou dit was wel weer een seizoen met ups en downs, eerste aflevering matig, tweede aflevering ijzer sterk, derde aflevering echt bizar slecht.
Ik kwam deze review tegen op IMDB waar ik me helemaal in kan vinden:
Trying to surpass all previous installments and to impress the low-minded with cheap tricks and ridiculous situations.
Honestly, you have to have a really really strong suspension of disbelief to swallow any of this, even for mere entertainment. It's a total mess. A bunch of pretentious pseudo-psychological twists, that you will forget soon after the episode ends.
As you might know from the previous episode, the Holmes brothers have a long lost sister. As we learn soon enough, she is some short of ...super villain, who is able to ...control your mind and make you do things, almost like Kilgrave in Marvel's Jessica Jones! No real explanation for that. She just can, because she is an..."era-defining genius, more clever than Isaac Newton." (LOL!).
The great Sherlock Holmes isn't at his best in this one, as he can't even notice a whole frame of bulletproof glass that it's missing, (no reflections or diffraction at all), 3 feet away from him, nor can understand the difference of the sound of a violin playing, supposedly on the other side of a thick glass that is strong enough to hold the worst criminals humanity ever known!
Among other things you also get the BXDXSN-707672 super duper hi-tech grenade that, very conveniently, needs ...3 whole seconds (!!!!) to explode, so our heroes to escape from its blast without a scratch.
The resolution is ridiculous and simple and the master villain sister becomes calm as a kitty, without any apparent reason other than some comforting words from her brother.
None of the events or challenges that took place actually meant anything. You learn nothing about the characters, they are not developed in any manner, no one that matters is even greatly /effected/ by the events that take place.
The epilogue is also a mess. Just random pieces from previous episodes: Sherlock remembers Lestrade first name, the parents (actual and fictional) of Sherlock make a cameo appearance, and also "Mary" (real separated and fictional dead) wife of Martin Freeman continues to talk in a DVD.
Overall: Tiresome beyond believe. Seems more like random pieces and forced twists masqueraded as a plot device: --The long lost sister of the Holmes is in cahoots with the officially dead Jim Moriarty and sets a couple of ridiculous riddle-ish exercises, just before she turned into a scared little girl who enjoys playing the violin with her brother.
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