![]() Bringing Moriarty back from the dead (as it did Sherlock – though not literally) would be a step too far, even for this show. The specter of Moriarty has lingered since he took his own life, and in terms of addressing his continued presence (and possibly his ability to still draw breath), the show was damned if it did and damned if it didn't. It features a terrific performance from Andrew Scott as Moriarty, one that underlines just how important he is to the show, and how, despite having the audacity to kill Sherlock's nemesis and keep him dead, Sherlock never quite recovered from that loss. As Mycroft eventually tells his brother, "The man you are today is your memory of Eurus," which is intended to suggest that the ordeal of having spent a part of his childhood with an "era-defining genius" (who is also a psychopath), resulted in his inability to form emotional connections and, more importantly, forged his deep interest in (or obsession with) solving the most convoluted of crimes.īut 'The Final Problem' is more than just a showcase of Holmes family dysfunction. But as the finale tries its level best to convince those watching, Eurus is far more than just a melodramatic shift intended to knock Sherlock off its narrative moorings for the better part of an episode. Last week, at the end of ' The Lying Detective', it was discovered that Sherlock had a long-lost little sister, Eurus (Siân Brooke), who he had forgotten (or blocked out) as a way to deal with childhood trauma. If this is the end of Sherlock, then co-creators Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat have gone to great lengths to produce one of the most outlandish episodes the series has ever seen, as the swan song to what has been, in its heart of hearts, a bizarre show obsessed with the power of showy deduction and reason, but was never too interested the latter.
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