Sherlock: The Worst Episode From Every Season

While the first 6 episodes of Sherlock are considered the best era of the series, The Blind Banker is definitely the weakest out of all of them. It's dull, lifeless, and uninspired, seemingly dragging on and on throughout its 90-minute runtime, making it tedious to watch and finish. It certainly didn't help that this episode came after A Study in Pink, so many people felt it inferior in comparison as well as the fact that this was only the second episode of the series, meaning Sherlock still had much to do if it wanted to convince us it was truly deserving of the praise it got during its pilot.

Luckily, the show would manage to pull through, giving us great episodes like The Great Game and A Scandal in Belgravia, but The Blind Banker still remains very much the worst episode of both Season 1 and Season 2. There's also the bewildering portrayal of Chinese culture in this episode — The Blind Banker is filled with cheap lazy Chinese stereotypes, making the episode even worse to watch rather than it just being boring.

Really, The Blind Banker is a stale, hollow, and forgettable episode. It doesn't contribute much to the series plot-wise or character development-wise and it's not good enough to stand on its own so this episode just feels like filler — and who wants filler in a series with only 3 episodes per season?