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Sherlock: The Lying Detective (2017)
Best Sherlock episode?
This is probably my favorite Sherlock episode, it had a Hannibal Season 2 feel with all the visuals and "what is going on" vibe, we can't really fully understand what is happening but guess until the show reveals it and is amazing.
I have to admit I'm not a Sherlock fan, I love the show productions and the actor are great but the story/writing most of the time felt weird and force, this time might not be that different but definitely took the show to a new place.
I found the previous episode kind of regular but now I realize it was necessary to set everything on the table and this one take full exploits of those elements.
Game of Thrones: The Winds of Winter (2016)
An interesting show died this season.
I can't understand why people keep watching this show (besides visual quality) after this season, the magic that started fading away in the past seasons is now fully gone, sadly not even "The Door" (one of the best things in this show and a glimpse of what the show used to be, probably because it was all the author's plan from the beginning) can keep alive this show. All the plots ended in the most boring predictable way, so sad considering the more interesting other possibilities that a lot of fans imagined, after seasons of stretching them at the end everything felt rushed and unrewarding. Somehow they also manage to confuse the viewers with time jumps from one place to another using the same characters without physical changes and lot of distance covered in just one cut scene: one moment someone was in the Iron Islands the next one they were at Slaver's Bay, the next one in Dorne and the next sailing somewhere else.
Game of Thrones: Battle of the Bastards (2016)
Great production, bad writing.
I don't know about you but the thing that made me keep watching this show named Game of Thrones was the writing, I never knew what to expect, anyone could die at any time, anyone could betray or be betrayed at anytime, everything had a twist or suddenly a scene made 3 others made sense and you were "mind blown". Saddly this last season everything (specially this episode) lost it magic, the twist are lost, the plots just go as predicted in the worst way possible, the important characters stopped dying and they just became "plot armored", Jon Snow had to die like 10 times in this episode but the whole "Don't bring me back" was used to bring tension which I didn't felt because, despite how good the production was, I knew that they weren't killing him, something that didn't happened in other seasons. I have to admit everything else was extra ordinary but how the fight developed was just really bad, the "bad guys" literally stopped attacking at times just to build tension, that last minute attack that Sansa prepared was the stupid thing in the whole series, I can't even imagine how anybody in Jon side even survived considering the amount of people and the lack of strategy. Worst writing in the whole show.
Black Sails: XXVIII. (2016)
This is the whole show's pick
I don't remember watching anything like this, this is the moment were the whole season breaks into a perfect mix of fight, dialogue, schemes and counter schemes, and everything we saw this far gains even more importance, it's just perfect. The writers did a great job and the actors delivered, I can't think of a single flaw, the pacing was right, it build up the moment, there was action, compelling moments of suspense and managed perfectly to close and opens plots without losing rhythm. This episode managed to make me feel as intense as The Red Wedding in GoT without resorting to plain graphic shocking moments, and that's a lot to say considering that The Red Wedding is probably the first moment I think when someone ask me about the best thing I've ever see on television.