Sherlock

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Season 2
Season #: 4, 3, 2, 1
User Score
9.1

Universal acclaim- based on 870 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 813 out of 870
  2. Mixed: 25 out of 870
  3. Negative: 32 out of 870
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  1. EludiumQ36
    Nov 30, 2017
    2
    No, no, no, what's with all these 9s and 10s?! Do we have that much a culture of shilldom?! I gave season 1 a tepid "4" rating but this one I couldn't even make past ep 1 due to its horribly lazy use of DExM not once but twice! The very last scene of ep 1 was most egregious and enough to abort wasting 90-min more with another episode. Again, you can't pace a 90-min episode like it's 30-minNo, no, no, what's with all these 9s and 10s?! Do we have that much a culture of shilldom?! I gave season 1 a tepid "4" rating but this one I couldn't even make past ep 1 due to its horribly lazy use of DExM not once but twice! The very last scene of ep 1 was most egregious and enough to abort wasting 90-min more with another episode. Again, you can't pace a 90-min episode like it's 30-min one. So that's its continuing first problem. But then to just "magically" make things happen is just lazy writing and directing. Seriously, in ep 1 Holmes simply asks two "American" spec-ops types to leave the room when he has absolutely NO leverage to do so is idiocy. Then to overcome the final armed one was just insulting. This series wants to be taken seriously but it simply can't with such pathetic antics. I'm on to the next streaming series...… Expand
  2. JakobVirgil
    May 8, 2012
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The baskerville episode was un-watchable.
    But the whole series has a feel of the authors dumbing things down for the rubes.
    1. the conceit of having the murder being shown in the scene why? so we don't have to be troubled solving anything. what is this CSI?
    2. Labeling the clues with cg text so the writer can be lazy writing dialogue and the watcher can be lazy on figuring out what is important. This robs us of the two joy of mysteries being surprised or figuring them out.
    3. having Jim Moriarty be behind every single crime but having the worlds greatest consulting detective never say maybe "hey Jim is behind this on too ?" as his first guess. like it is a saturday morning cartoon.
    4. having Jim Moriarty be behind every single crime by inserting a Post-mortem "some guy named Moriarty told me to do it"
    5. Irene Adler her password was "sher"-locked? also in that episode the cameras and graphics told us Holmes could not read her but 1 minute later Holmes reads her.
    It is stupid and sloppy show ,it is fun, but it is not smart. I like it but I also like the A-team mostly for the same reasons.    … Expand
  3. Sartay59
    Jun 23, 2012
    3
    The writers blew it in season two with a preposterous ending. If Moriarty was only an actor and Sherlock was a fraud, who was the mastermind behind the break-in at the Tower of London and the theft of the crown jewels? Sherlock could have simply pointed this out to Scotland Yard (and the media) and moved on with the case. No need to run. Better luck next season.

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#4 Best TV Season of 2012
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#10 Most Discussed TV Season of 2012
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#36 Most Shared TV Season of 2012

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Metascore
91

Universal acclaim - based on 24 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 24 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 24
  3. Negative: 0 out of 24
  1. People Weekly
    Reviewed by: Tom Gliatto
    May 7, 2012
    100
    In season 2 of PBS's richly clever Sherlock, the Victorian tales have been refitted to our century. [14 May 2012, p.44]
  2. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: Matt Zoller Seitz
    May 7, 2012
    90
    Sherlock is a wonderful series. Just thinking about it makes me smile.
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  3. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Tirdad Derakhshani
    May 7, 2012
    100
    Sherlock strikes a perfect--and delicious--balance among comedy, pathos, murder, and mystery.
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