Written by series co-creator Mark Gatiss and directed by Rachel Talalay ( Tank Girl), the episode title “The Six Thatchers” pays homage, like the titles of all of Sherlock’s previous episodes, to an original story from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Victorian Sherlock Holmes canon (in this case, “The Six Napoleons”). Frustratingly, the only real reason for Mary's demise predictably seems to be to examine its impact on Sherlock and John. Sunday's episode dropped a major character death - that of John's wife, Mary - into the middle of an already messy series of plot complications. “The Six Thatchers” starts off feeling like one of Sherlock’s manic drug trips before settling into a story about the past Sherlock’s forever-escalating drug addiction is just one of his problems in season four. whatever the show has up its sleeve next.īut will the major change in plot direction the show sprung on us in this episode be worth it? Unfortunately, the season four premiere has revealed that Sherlock’s most promising and divisive element in the wake of the season three finale - the evolving three-way relationship between Sherlock ( Benedict Cumberbatch), John Watson ( Martin Freeman), and John’s mysterious wife, Mary ( Amanda Abbington) - is little more than a giant distraction, a red herring for.
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