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Sherlock: The Blind Banker (TV)

Sherlock: The Blind Banker

2010

Euros Lyn

Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Una Stubbs, Zoe Telford ...

7.0

9,269

Mystery Banker Eddie Van Coon and reporter Brian Lukis are both shot dead in identical slayings, in rooms locked from the inside. Chinese museum employee Soo Lin tells Sherlock Holmes that, as a teenaged orphan in China, she ran drugs for the Black Lotus crime syndicate, for whom the two dead men also worked. She too is then murdered, the killer being a human fly who can scale buildings. The gang mistake Watson for Holmes and capture him and ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Sam Wollaston The Guardian	"The plot is more satisfying – clearer and more self-contained. The Holmes-Watson relationship has bedded down into one that I think Conan Doyle would recognise, a mixture of admiration, infuriation and genuine affection. It's pacy, exciting and it looks brilliant"
		John Nugent Empire	"The central mystery is not all that involving, but there's still room for some witty interplay between our two bickering heroes."
		Kayti Burt Paste Magazine	"'The Blind Banker' is a vestige of a show that was at its peak creatively, but still managed to fall into some seriously lazy Orientalism."
		John Teti AV Club	"What makes 'The Blind Banker' such a delight is not so much its serviceable mystery but rather the exchanges between Cumberbatch and Freeman"
		Screen Rant	"Unfortunately, it is just one of the pair's least memorable cases, and the episode struggles in its attempts to live up to the first."
		Simon Brew Den of Geek	"Despite lacking just a bit of the wit and sparkle that was sprinkled throughout 'A Study In Pink', The Blind Banker nonetheless delivered another 90 minutes of genuine entertainment."

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