![]() Part of the flaw was that we didn’t know the rules. At the time, I criticised that episode for having too much going on. It needed either an extra half an hour or one less twist.Īnd so to the second episode, written by Mark Gatiss who had previously written the third episode of the first series. ![]() The only downside was that it got a little muddled towards the end, with slightly too many elements being introduced that served only to confuse the plot. Much like A Study in Pink, the entire episode was a battle of wits between Holmes and his adversary. The core plot was great, and the dual factors of a) having never read the original novels and b) having plenty of white, middle-class, male privilege, meant that I wasn’t bothered by Irene Adler being turned into a sexy dominatrix who worked for Moriarty. So expectations were high and it almost delivered. The first episode was written by Steven Moffat himself, the same man who wrote the first episode of the first series that I so admired. And so I tackled the second series with both excitement and trepidation. ![]() I had some fairly strong opinions on the first series of Sherlock: basically that the first episode was the greatest thing on TV in ages, and the other two failed hugely in living up to it. Be warned! This article has huge spoilers for the entire first two series of Sherlock
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