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Sherlock's Season 3 may have lost quite a bit of its footing after the character of Kitty Winter exited (following the superb "Illustrious Client" update/adaptation), but the finale, "A Controlled Descent," managed to take us out of the season on a very interesting, harrowing note. One far more interesting than the Holmes/Watson split at the end Season 2. And in someways, a haunting callback to the Season 1 finale, called "Heroine," when Sherlock faked a drug relapse to lure out Natalie Dormer's Moriarty.
Here, the relapse, for all intents and purposes, was real. Making Sherlock's addiction, for the first time even, a very real and debilitating thing. Not that the show hasn't handled the topic well in the past. Hell, it's one of the things that nicely and deftly sets Elementary apart from other Holmes iterations. But this was the first time we got to see Sherlock in such a tragic state.
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Sherlock's Season 3 may have lost quite a bit of its footing after the character of Kitty Winter exited (following the superb "Illustrious Client" update/adaptation), but the finale, "A Controlled Descent," managed to take us out of the season on a very interesting, harrowing note. One far more interesting than the Holmes/Watson split at the end Season 2. And in someways, a haunting callback to the Season 1 finale, called "Heroine," when Sherlock faked a drug relapse to lure out Natalie Dormer's Moriarty.
Here, the relapse, for all intents and purposes, was real. Making Sherlock's addiction, for the first time even, a very real and debilitating thing. Not that the show hasn't handled the topic well in the past. Hell, it's one of the things that nicely and deftly sets Elementary apart from other Holmes iterations. But this was the first time we got to see Sherlock in such a tragic state.
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