Still, it's easy to see why Sherlock had such a strong fanbase, considering how smart, well-acted and all-around fun the series used to be. It's a shame many of the episodes of this list come fromA bad ending is enough to sour a lot of people's memory of a show. Look what happened to Game of Thrones -fandom, for example. The last season, focusing on superspy Mary, with Eurus being basically a telepath, and forgetting to have Sherlock, like, solve crimes as a detective, really left a bad taste in my mouth. Boy did those words echo loudly throughout the season finale of Elementary on Thursday night. The episode followed Sherlock as he went to the darkest places of his past habits to find his old Watson: You realize this is a tiny bit humiliating. Sherlock: It's okay, I'm fine. Now, show me to the stream. Watson: I didn't really mean for you. Sherlock: Look, this is a six. There's no point in my leaving the flat for anything less than a seven. We agreed. Alright go back, show me the grass.
That episode worked well on both an emotional level and in how the story was told. If Sherlock was just a bunch of self contained mysteries without any season long arcs, it probably would have worked a lot better because Moffat is way better at self-contained mysteries than more longform arcs. 2. GeronimoSonjack.
Season 4 of Sherlock has galloped by — which is easy enough, when the seasons are only three episodes long — but it ends on an oddly final note. Although cast and crew insist that this isn't .