Sherlock: Every Episode Ranked Worst To Best
1. Season 2, Episode 3: The Reichenbach Fall
The Reichenbach Fall takes everything that worked about The Great Game and dials it up to 11.
Moriarty's masterplan is almost too much for Sherlock to get his head around and keep up with. But by turning Sherlock's new-found fame against him, Jim Moriarty proves he knows more than anyone how to tease and torture Sherlock. Every revelation of the trap that's been set for Sherlock reminds us why no one will ever match the great detective's arch nemesis.
For the first time in the show's history, the stakes are high and you get a real sense not everyone might make it out alive. When Sherlock is trapped on that roof and Moriarty has committed suicide in front of him, you truly believe there is no way out for Sherlock, and that he has no plan. It's doubtful that any future episode will ever top that first moment when Sherlock isn't able to rely on his smarts to save him.
The Reichenbach Fall is epic yet devastating and intimate in its scope, and is the most iconic battle between Cumberbatch's Sherlock and a villain. For those reasons, it is the best episode of Sherlock to date.
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