Sherlock's season 4 finale contains a frustrating flashback moment that signifies everything that went wrong with the show's later seasons.
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Sherlock was never the same after Moriarty’s death, with a flashback moment from season 4 perfectly expressing the problem. BBC’s Sherlock is, in many ways, a triumph. The series, a modernization of Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic Sherlock Holmes stories, is still one of IMDb’s top 25 highest-rated TV shows ever made.
As Sherlock blows past its season 2 climactic confrontation between Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty, the show struggles to relocate its footing. It’s this struggle that defines the problems with Sherlock’s third and fourth seasons. The show becomes obsessed with sounding echoes of its season 2 high note, rather than starting fresh. One scene in season 4 typifies this problem.
Sherlock Season 4, Episode 3 Brought Back Moriarty One of the most dramatic moments in season 4’s climactic final episode “The Final Problem” is the seeming return of Moriarty. However, the drama of this moment deflates nearly as quickly as it appears, with the revelation that Moriarty’s return is nothing more than a flashback. What’s more, the flashback doesn’t even materialize into anything consequential.
Sherlock Could Never Move On From Moriarty The disappointing not-quite return of Moriarty represents the wider problems of Sherlock’s third and fourth seasons. After two masterful seasons of slow buildup, Sherlock’s season 2 finale presents an explosive confrontation between Sherlock and Moriarty. The battle of wits between the two egotistical geniuses is a series high point, but this comes at a cost.
Eurus Holmes is the final straw. In a bid to top Moriarty, the writers conceive a plot so absurd, so nakedly lacking in Eurus’s purported super-intelligence, that Sherlock’s cracks are fully laid bare. The show’s earlier seasons succeed by constructing a sense of epic scale and significance with their sophisticated plots, but as Sherlock continues to strive for higher and higher peaks of significance, it becomes untethered from the basic rewards of narrative storytelling.
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