Sherlock: 10 Most Hated Episodes
8. The Sign Of Three
Do you remember the actual mystery of this one? You couldn't be blamed if you didn't. The Sign of Three didn't feel like part of a detective show outing at all — instead, it felt more like a sitcom or soap opera outing with a mystery awkwardly shoved in. What this episode really focuses on is John's wedding with Sherlock being his best man anxious about delivering his best man speech, and the mystery feels so out of place, it's almost as if the writers suddenly remembered they were writing for a detective show and forced a mystery at the last minute.
This episode really wants to make you laugh, so much so that the comedic scenes feel so unnecessary and drawn out. Sherlock has always been a funny series, but the first half always remembered that it was a detective show first — the mystery and suspense come first, the jokes and silly antics come second. In the second half, the comedy takes centre-stage, feeling forced and overdone.
If you wanted to see the show Sherlock becoming less of an intense detective mystery and more of a happy-go-lucky buddy comedy, The Sign of Three is for you. For anyone else, however, The Sign of Three remains one of the worst episodes from a once-great series.