She soon discovers that everyone else on the plane, including the pilots, have been drugged, and that the plane is now flying on autopilot over unknown terrain, doomed to crash. Rather than picking up right where “The Lying Detective” left off, “The Final Problem” - whose title refers to the famous Arthur Conan Doyle story in which Sherlock kills his nemesis Moriarty - opens instead with a young girl awaking on a strange flight. All of these women, “shockingly,” turned out to be Sherlock’s never-before-mentioned sister, Eurus ( Siân Brooke) - Eurus, as the show took pains to point out, being a Greek word which means “the East wind.” The episode ended on a cliffhanger, with Eurus shooting John at the end of his therapy session. As it turned out, “E” was also the same woman who’d tricked Sherlock ( Benedict Cumberbatch) into believing she was a client in the previous episode. Sherlock’s previous episode, “ The Lying Detective,” ended with the surprise reveal that John Watson’s ( Martin Freeman) sort-of girlfriend, as well as his new therapist, were the same person. “The Final Problem” contains a lot of jittery and confusing plot twists BBC One
SHERLOCK SERIES REVIEW FULL
Full of frenzied plot twists, “The Final Problem” closed out the season and maybe the series with an episode that - if it really is the last - feels like a huge anticlimax that substitutes implausible drama and showiness for meaningful character development and any kind of narrative payoff. There is, however, a lot of high drama and plot shenanigans, and much of it is confusing. There’s ultimately not a lot of substance behind all of the sturm und drang that has led to this final episode, and there’s even less logic.
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