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"The Alexandrian library of secrets and scandals - and none of it is on a computer"Ĭut to Christmas and Mary's super-pregnant and all is forgiven between her and John. She was about to kill him when Sherlock arrived with a plan of his own. Mary, it turns out, is a former spy and assassin who sought a new identity in London but can't be safe while Magnussen knows her true identity. It turns out Mary never meant to kill him, just to shoot him in the chest in such a way as to bring him an inch from death. Apparently, it's all laughs when someone sleeps with you, proposes to you but then turns out they just wanted you as a minor part in a sleuthing vendetta.

She doesn't seem too bothered about it all though. Turns out that while Sherlock's been unconscious Janine's been selling madeup kiss-and-tells to the tabloids to get back at him while turning a profit. "No one ever bothers you." "Shag-a-lot Holmes" "You'll love death, Sherlock," he teases. The mind palace bits are particularly good in this episode, and in the three seconds before Sherlock falls unconscious there are guest appearances from Sherlock's old dog Red Beard and a chained and straitjacketed Moriarty, who lures Sherlock towards the padded cell of death. (A doff of the deerstalker to those commenters who spotted them last week.) We don't have long to find out how this all relates to Sherlock though, as she quickly shoots him in the chest. Of course the clues were all there: quick reaction times, impressive memory, a mysterious past. When Sherlock arrives in the office, Janine is knocked out cold while Magnus is held at gunpoint by a mystery assassin, who Sherlock believes to be an MP he was blackmailing.

Clearly, Sherlock hasn't developed the capacity for compassion.īut that's not the only relationship that isn't what it seems. This is a particularly callous move – and while it's played here for laughs, you can't help but think of the similarly heartless undercover police officers who've pulled the same trick in real life. He's been faking a relationship, even an engagement, to get close to Janine because she's Magnussen's PA. Pretty quickly we learn that Sherlock hasn't suddenly developed the capacity to love. She'll probably dump me after that, but you're the expert on women" "I'll tell her that our entire relationship was a ruse to break into her boss's office. Sherlock's trying to tell John about Charles Augustus Magnussen, the evil newspaper proprietor who has a vault of secrets about every major figure in the western world, but John can't get over the fact that Sherlock has been shamelessly canoodling with Janine – most unbelievably, the couple had been a sharing a bath. There's a great scene early on where the episode struggles to switch gears from romcom to crime conspiracy and John and Sherlock are left stalling. "I've just told you the western world is run from this house and you want to talk about dinner?" This was the episode the fans actually wanted.

A newspaper proprietor villain, hundreds of twists and a total dismantling of all that lovey-dovey stuff from last week. These came with a piece in the Independent saying you shouldn't have to concentrate too hard to enjoy Sherlock (as if the past two decades of outstanding television, from The Wire to EastEnders, haven't repaid viewers for taking more than a passing interest), as well as a more reasoned suggestion by Mark Lawson that shows such as Sherlock and Doctor Who should always be seeking to reach new fans and not just pleasing their online hardcore.īut this episode should win the underwhelmed around.

At the end of my last blog there were a few hundred comments saying the show had lost its way – it was too knowing, too comedic and had strayed too far from the formula.

#Review sherlock season 3 full

This series of Sherlock was supposed to be one for the fans, full of in-jokes and character trait reversions that only a mother, or a fan-fic obsessed devotee, could love.