![]() ![]() Everyone loves watching Sherlock do his thing, even when he’s at his most unlikeable, but I think we all just flat out love John, and it’s his quiet loyalty that comprises the heart of the show. I have tremendous respect for Freeman as an actor – but never more so than in this episode, when he’s playing opposite an increasingly dramatic, erratic and fractured Cumberbatch – because he manages to do so much with the designated “normal” everyday character, ultimately making playing the “straight man” in the Holmes-Watson partnership both interesting and emotionally affecting. From the very opening scene of this episode, Martin Freeman apparently feels free to take all of our hearts and stomp all over them. But, it's hard to nitpick an episode that's this good, it really is. You all deserve a warning for that upfront. Therefore, there’s less in the way of well written coherence here and kind of a lot of flailing around in awe. Do come chat with me in the comments – would love to know what people thought about this episode, as well as your theories about what happens next. So, let’s dish about it! Click through for a few of my thoughts on the Series 2 finale, loads of general emotional flailing, and a bit of speculation about where we go from here. I laughed, I cheered, I yelled at my TV screen, I sobbed. ![]() Funny, clever, tense, exciting, surprising and sob-your-guts-out emotional, I don’t think that there’s been an episode of TV in recent memory – for any show – that’s put me through the wringer like this one. Just to put this out there: “The Reichenbach Fall” is the single best episode of television I’ve seen this year. ![]() #Review sherlock final episode how to#I don’t know how to find a cat video where it’s simultaneously shocked and sobbing, but someone let me know if that exists.) The Sherlock Series 2 finale screened last night here in America and it’s probably not an exaggeration to say that the photo below is an accurate representation of the reactions of almost everyone who watched it. ![]()
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