Originally Posted By ecdc If you're not watching this BBC series, cancel all your plans and queue it up. First season is streaming on Netflix. Or just go buy the DVDs or blu-rays. If you're as in love as I am, you'll watch them over and over again. Second season has aired in the UK and is available on Amazon.co.uk.
Originally Posted By velo I've been enjoying it. It's conveniently on right after Downton Abbey here.
Anyone watching Sherlock on LP? We have just finished series 4 and unfortunately it was a huge disappointment. For me it is time to retire the show, because it has nothing to do anyore with the Sherlock we know from the first two seasons. Everything had to be bigger than in the season before and so they forgot about what made Sherlock great. However the ending of the series four was perfect and so it even feels like the producers will end the show.
I'm in a minority that loved the first two episodes of season four. I can't wait to get it on blu ray and check it out again. I'm pretty forgiving of the show even though I'm aware of its faults. It tries to be too clever and some episodes get too far away from the mysteries (though if you've read Conan Doyle's stories, the show is closer than you might think). That said...episode three was beyond baffling. I don't mind the intensity or even the introduction of a new character out of the blue. But by the end it had become so absurd, and their attempts to make an utterly appalling, despicable character somehow sympathetic at the end failed. It was weird. The last 30 seconds or so were great, but yeah. First time I've truly been disappointed in Sherlock. I do hope it'll be back for a fifth series though. I enjoy the characters and I wonder if the fan backlash might spur Gatiss and Moffat to do three mystery based episodes just around John and Sherlock doing their thing.
I actually liked episode 2 as well, but it still wasn't on the same level than the episodes from the other seasons. I'm also glad, that I'm not the only one who didn't like the last episode.
