ODD is to blame for Sherlock because I have zero tolerance for bad t.v ~ meaning almost all of it. The rare exceptions are few & far between & far too often screened way past my bedtime.
You'll like this, mum, ODD assured me. Trust me.
She was right. I watched the 1st 3 seasons in a marathon, delighted the BBC once again had produced a witty, intelligent, well written crime drama. I even liked the modern take on Sherlock. It was sharp & clever & it didn't matter I had read all the stories. There was enough originality to keep me engaged.
So along with a lot of others I waited eagerly for season 4 ~ which we get later in Australia than everywhere else. I manfully refrained from pirating... Finally channel 9 aired season 4 on Sunday nights, when I am cranky & overtired & critical but it didn't matter. The simple fact of the matter was, I was bored.
Why I liked this series to begin with was, it didn't bore me. The dialogue was clever. The plots were just intricate enough. There was just enough tension between characters, between plot & sub~plots, that lovely balance that is so hard to achieve between not taking itself too seriously & not taking itself seriously enough. All gone. In all honesty, season 4 is just silly.
I watched the final episode on my computer because I was baby sitting on Sunday night & that house is as cricket mad as this one [not me, the MOTH] & it's the Ashes & we're winning, so I chose a time when I was alert & focused & I gave the show my full attention ~ but it's still silly. Plot holes big enough to drive a truck through, inconsistencies, illogical, poor link~ups between scenes in some arty~farty let's be super cleverness & it's just bad t.v. The ending was just pathetic & I hate it like poison when I pick the outcome of a major plot line within the first 5 or so minutes! I like to be kept guessing! Plus, I really, really hate being lied to, & the whole Redbeard thing had way more impact when Redbeard was a dog. Should have left well enough alone!
Pinged off. Much.
Although our tastes differ in some areas, I have to say that I feel much of the same or that a really good series only lasted one season or a few more episodes just to give it closure. All the while, mindless sitcoms and reality shows that are trashy and swallow are the most popular.
ReplyDeleteWe had a very popular TV show called "Last Man Standing" with Tim Allen as the father with a wife and four daughters--some of which were quite liberal at differing shades. My husband liked it a lot because it was so close to home for him. It was a show about the tensions and how they could get along--which was how it was in their real lives also: Allen is a very conservative comedian and many of the other actors were liberal. It was the MOST POPULAR of all the sitcoms, but even in its height of popularity it was abruptly cancelled after its six season this year without any explanation.
I guess we cannot have a show where conservatives are not the heartless capitalists all the socialist liberals want everyone to believe we are. Hollywood is not my friend.
lol I know Sherlock is not your thing but I get so frustrated with the shallow, mindless stuff that floods our screens here. Absolute trash! To get something halfway decent really highlights the poor quality of the rest so when that crashes & burns too I get pretty fed up.
ReplyDeleteAmerican crime shows are so formulaic that you always know where it is going immediately & that is no fun. The Brits are too, if you watch enough, but less violence & more originality. Someone is showing *Wallender*, which is lovely & nihilistic but so late @ night I can't stay up for it.
And that is the other thing: I had no problem with Sherlock being an atheist. Obviously he would be, but then the show really started pushing that viewpoint blatantly from multiple characters & that just annoyed me. The Arts industry is notorious for being unbelievers, but that doesn't make the rest of us the same. I consider it a form of brainwashing of the masses! Ugly.