Sherlock - A Scandal in Belgravia - An Episode Review

The second series of 'Sherlock' sees the return of everyone's favourite detective in a new string of storylines adapted from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's original works (I think). If you would all care to travel back to the end of the last series in 2010, then you would remember that the third and final episode in the series ended with the most annoying of endings - a cliffhanger. (Jump for joy, Evil. You made that happen. Grr.) We begin by picking up from that. However, most of the story doesn't have anything to do with James Moriarty. Instead, we have a possible scandal at hand.


Sherlock Holmes and his accomplice John Watson.

Sherlock and Watson are up to their usual tricks - solving mysteries and fighting crime. However, due to the success of John's blog, they have a steady influx of mysteries to solve - assuming Sherlock can be bothered. The lazy sod is only taking on cases that interest him, leaving Watson with the job of cleaning up his messes.
This is the point when three men in rather neat suits enter the room and make him an offer that he cannot refuse, not least of all because they'll drag him away if he doesn't come willingly.
The Royal Family gave a problem. Compromising pictures of one of the Family have been found to exist - and they're in the hands of Irene Addler, a notorious criminal.

I wasn't terribly impressed with this particular Sherlock case. That's mostly to do with the fact that there wasn't a single, solid crime that they were investigating. The story kind of hopped around a bit. The general joy of the Sherlock series is that there's a definite crime to solve, not some silly bouncing about like a spacehopper in an oversized washing machine. It really annoyed me. Also, there was too wide a timeframe for the episode. That side of it was bad.
The rest wasn't all that good either. The whole thing didn't advance very fast until the last half hour. Then there was done stuff about Coventry, a jumbo jet and then some extra bits I didn't catch.

So that was, admittedly, a short review, but do not fault me. That's pretty much all I thought after viewing the thing.
I rate this a four out of ten (4/10). Silly story, mixed up other stuff and too much romance for it's own good. Sorry, Mr Moffat. Not really that impressed.