I am separating this season from the rest because it just seemed to make sense to treat it like a completely separate entity. Feel free to disregard these if you're content with pretending this season never happened. Or read it for my exasperated bitching. Whatever.
"The Six Thatchers" (or: James Bond Lite)
In an awkward update of "The Six Napoleons", Sherlock
practically ignores some murders in order to track down somebody he
thinks is working for Moriarty by destroying Margaret Thatcher
statues for...reasons. It's really not clear what the point of this
is (aside from getting rid of Mary).
Spoiler rating: 1(3)
"The Lying Detective" (or: A Good Plot Gone
Wrong)
In what is sadly the best of the three episodes this
season, Mofftiss pay
lip service to a Doyle short story while mostly setting up the
travesty that is the next episode in a way that makes this one,
ultimately, bizarre and contrived.
Spoiler rating: 1(3)
"The
Final Problem" (or: The Prisoner)
In
what could very well be the final episode ever, Mofftiss lose their
goddamn minds and completely destroy the series with a crossover
between "Fort Boyard"
and "Saw" starring a villain with superhuman intelligence who turns
out to have been the "real" Moriarty. Everyone acts blissfully
unaware of how genuinely terrible it all is.
Spoiler rating: 1(0)