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Suspect (2022)
So melodramatic
I was looking forward to this so much because of the high quality actors, especially James Nesbitt. But it is so poorly written. So overly melodramatic and so illogical.
Danny confronts all sort of characters who might explain his daughter's death. Even he holds the upper hand and threatens violence, no matter how scared or dangerous their situation, they attack him for being a terrible father and ruining his daughter's life. If someone is holding a gun on you, would you really tell them off, in real life? No, that only happens in melodrama.
Then, his ex-wife sweetly begs him to go to the morgue to identify the body but spends their time raking him over the coals for his poor parenting (sweetly of course). Then goes back to wanting to share their last moments together with their daughter's body.
All the individual characters act illogically.
Sherlock: The Hounds of Baskerville (2012)
Sherlock at his cruelest
This was an excellent episode, showing how dysfunctional Sherlock and John's relationship was at this point. Sherlock pulls a cruel trick on John, unnecessarily drugging him when he could have used a lab to test the sugar (which Sherlock thought contained a hallucigen that causes terror) and avoided making John suffer. John is inadvertently exposed to the drug during Sherlock's "experiment" anyway. On CCTV, Sherlock watches coldly as John runs around the locked laboratory, terrified, begging for Sherlock to save him. Even adding terrifying sounds to further freighten John. Then John immediately overlooks it after the drug has worn off. It's hard to decide which of them has the worse mental disorder. Sherlock's lack of empathy or John's codependency.
These earlier series had so much depth in exploring Sherlock & John's relationship. (Don't mention the 4th series to me - the fan service series. "We want a scene where Sherlock ..., and we don't care if how we get there makes any sense").