Last night I finished watching series two of the BBC series Sherlock. As you may know I really enjoyed series one of the show. I will say right now series two takes it to a whole new level. I will take each episode and break it down starting with the first one. Don't worry I won't spoil anything in this review.
The first episode is the Scandal in Belgravia. The Irene Adler episode. There's a really great scene when Sherlock looks at her and he can't size her up. He looks over at Watson and starts sizing him up. You can see cliff notes appear on the screen and he looks back at Irene Adler and you just see question marks appear. At that moment I knew it was going to be a great episode, I knew she would be great competition for Sherlock. There's also a very funny scene in this episode with Mycroft, who is Sherlock's older brother.
The second episode was The Hounds of Baskerville episode. In this episode Sherlock's and Watson's client is a man who claims his father was murdered my a giant hound. At first Sherlock thinks his client is crazy, but as he digs deeper in the case he realizes that he is not. There's a pretty interesting twist in this case I don't want to give it away. Even though it was a very good episode, I think it was the weak link of the three. It's not necessarily a gripe with the episode I just feel like the other two episodes where so much better.
That brings me to the final episode of series two, The Reichenbach Fall. This is the Jim Moriarty episode. This episode was intense to say the least! I knew going into this episode that Moriarty was crazy. But by the end of the episode I thought to myself, "This guy is so insane!" He's not just trying to kill Sherlock Holmes, he's going after his legacy and reputation. He's trying to take everything Sherlock has. Moriarty reminded me a lot of the Joker from the Dark Knight. Which is fitting because Sherlock Holmes and Jim Moriarty are the original Batman and Joker. Moriarty keeps telling Sherlock "You're just like me." It reminded me of when The Joker told Batman "To them you're just a freak like me."
Overall I loved series two of Sherlock even more than series one, and I loved series one. If you're a fan of Sherlock Holmes I highly recommend this show. I'm going to give Sherlock series two 4.7 out of 5 stars. I can't wait to see series three. I believe it comes out on blu-ray on Tuesday. I will also be posting my review of Insurgent within the next couple days. So be on the lookout for that. Thanks for reading everybody
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