After a series opener in which Sherlock traded its mystery status for soap, the second episode of series four, «The Lying Detective», doubles down on the new soap operatic direction of the show and delivers even more antics and heavy -
handed emotional beats.
Not exact matches
Cretton works well in tightly focused
emotional hothouses;
handed a decade - spanning commercial saga, he falls back on predictable storytelling
beats and easy ironies.
The cast on
hand, as well as the
emotional heart
beating in the trailer, should draw comparisons to that kind of film.