10 TV Shows You Should Stop Watching Before The Final Season

I’m aware that there’s enough intense fans out there that I may be inviting trouble by saying this, but the most recent season of Sherlock was not good.

Early Sherlock was praised for being punchy, clever and fast-paced but by the time we dragged ourselves to the end of Season Four, Moffat had done as Moffat does and had made everything unbearably over-complex.

We once adventured along with our modern Sherlock and Watson, solving mysteries and getting out of sticky situations. Along comes Season Four, throwing us into a melodramatic, logic-defying series of high-stakes games.

Apart from there never really are any stakes with Sherlock.

As with a lot of Moffat’s writing, we come to assume that the story will sort itself out through some kind of ridiculous twist so that at no point do the characters or the audience have to face any consequences.

There were so many dramatic reveals that they ceased to be dramatic, and instead were just irritating - in the same way you get sick of those cake videos when you know the moment you start playing it that it’s just going to be cake.

The first few seasons are genuinely fantastic: the characters are charming, the performances are good and the crime-solving is really satisfying to watch unfold. Don’t hang your hopes on the quality remaining as a constant, however, and if you don’t want to be sorely let down by one of Britain’s favourite detectives, I suggest not venturing past season three.