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This tendency to deride the new series didn’t start last night. Soon it may even cease to be sexy’ – Ralph Jones, The Guardian ‘It feels like it gave up being brainy a while ago. “Sherlock will still grab all the headlines and the fangirling on social media, but surely I can’t be the only viewer who preferred it when Holmes and Watson were just solving fairly believable mysteries,” he wrote. While not quite as venomous as his sabre-toothed contemporaries, Ian Hyland in the Mirror joined the chorus of those singing from the bring-back-old-Sherlock hymn sheet. Unashamedly pompous and consistently funny, perhaps Cohen was angling for the role of Sherlock himself with this review? Culverton Smith sees the funny side of Nick Cohen’s review (Photo: BBC) “I preferred it when Sherlock and Watson were just solving fairly believable mysteries” – Ian Hyland, The Mirror “The lines from forced smiles around your mouth and the dark bags around your eyes tell me you are from a profession where one must make an outward show of passionate enthusiasm while concealing a wild despair.” Titled “Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of the Murdered Script”, Cohen steps into the shoes of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and ruthlessly batters BBC director general Tony Hall: Not content with penning a standard review of Sherlock, Nick Cohen in The Spectator took the unconventional approach of writing his own Sherlock mystery. Even after the watershed’ – Nick Cohen, The Spectator

At least there’s that.” ‘Easily bored 13-year olds are our target audience.

“Hopefully Eurus has supplanted him as Sherlock’s worthy nemesis and we won’t have to watch him infuriatingly goon about like the third understudy in a touring regional theatrical adaptation of Jim Carrey’s The Mask. Heritage is optimistic that Moriarty won’t be returning for another season:
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He, like many Sherlock fans, has fallen out of love with Cumberbatch’s Sherlock.Įxasperated with the show’s tendency to deliver implausible plot-twists and then crudely patch them up, Heritage predicts that if there is a season five it will open with an explanation of all the blinding plot holes from this week’s finale. In The Guardian, Stuart Heritage demanded for a return of the ‘sexy swishy-coated alien we once adored’ from seasons one and two. Sherlock orders a hound to attack discerning critics (Photo: BBC) ‘A touring regional theatrical adaptation of Jim Carrey’s The Mask’ – Stuart Heritage, The Guardian The review pulled no punches, and a zero- star rating. ‘Do BBC bigwigs give a fig about viewers?’ asked Christopher Stephens in the Mail, following the conclusion of the finale.īetween valid points about the show’s implausibility and self-indulgence, Stephens assaulted the finale, calling Andrew Scott’s return as Moriarty “gimcrack trickery”, Mary Watson’s messages from the grave as “nauseatingly twee” and the show itself as “immature claptrap”. ‘Immature claptrap’ – Christopher Stephens, The Daily Mail
