Sherlock Trends: The Final Problem’s Plot Twists Send Twitter Into Meltdown

But was it good?

Unlike the three season finales and one-off special before it, “The Final Problem” doesn’t end with a cliffhanger. A cell phone rings. Plus, the return of Jim Moriarty – sort of. After ending on a tense, and seemingly final note on Sunday, fans can’t help but wonder if this is the end of the series or if there’s more to come. Doors lock. A creepy girl dashes through the halls. Lestrade, another hidden gem of the show, was also unresolved, and never did we get to see him ever happy.

The Telegraph reports that the leaked version of the 90-minute episode featured a three-second continuity announcement identifying it as having originated from Channel One, which owns the rights to telecast Sherlock in Russian Federation.

What we’d wanted from this series was to see Sherlock’s brain tick.

When Sherlock wakes up, he’s back at his childhood haunt where Eurus drowned his dog. But as with Sherlock, we are sure it will hold even more questions than answers. The third episode – The Final Problem – is all about “long-buried secrets catching up with Sherlock and Watson”.

We open on a commercial airliner full of unconscious passengers and flight crew, save for a very scared little girl.

The trio head to Sherrinford, the high security island prison where Eurus is kept, to discover how she escaped, only to find that she has laid a trap for them.

But the villain, played by Andrew Scott, was revived last night in flashback scenes.

Don’t worry, though – we’ve got you covered. She “doesn’t just talk to people, she reprograms them”. Eurus treats the entire thing as an experiment, monitoring from a removed location, while injecting various obstacles or changing the rules as they go along.

One sentence to sum up this series of Sherlock: ‘It is what it is’. It certainly got the pulse racing, but it stretched credibility to the limit and the series’ original point – an update of/homage to Conan Doyle’s original stories – receded ever further into the distance. Scant few times in the episode did he actually use his powers of observation-the violin Eurus is holding, determining which of those three MacGuffin brothers actually committed the murder, that nearly needless deciphering of song lyrics-leaving the rest to be either told to Sherlock flatly by Eurus herself, or to having the outcome hinge on emotional resonance rather than actual detective work. Sherlock is back on top deducing form, solving Eurus’ puzzles (mostly) while they work their way towards the real final problem… what do they do when this is all over? That’s why I think it’s unlikely that we’ve completely finished it. As with anything Sherlock, the setup is where the meat is, anyway. I am personally willing but I’m hardly the main draw.

Channel One owns the rights to show Sherlock in Russian Federation.

It’s thematically consistent, generally well-made, and incredibly well-acted.

Even before Season 4 began (after three years, mind you), there have been speculations that this is going to be the last season for Cumberbatch and Freeman.

Warning: This article contains spoilers from the final episode of series four.

Is it satisfying? Well, it’s Sherlock.