Sherlock Is Garbage, And Here's Why

Sherlock Is Garbage, And Here's Why is a video essay by YouTube media critic hbomberguy that heavily criticizes Sherlock, especially its fourth season, how the show treats its fans, the showrunner Steven Moffat and to a lesser extent Mark Gatiss. It's part of a series that hbomberguy does titled "X Is Garbage, And Here's Why," but the particular popularity of the Sherlock entry has lead to a trend on YouTube of very long videos with the same title in the hopes of gaming the algorithm.
As of September 2020, the video had over 5.31 million views, 125K likes, 17K dislikes, and 22,151 comments on YouTube. The video was taken down for copyright violation within minutes of it being posted on May 31st, 2017 but it was restored by June 1st, 2017.hbomberguy, June 01, 2017. Some segments of the video's Sherlock clips are still altered to avoid copyright claims.
==The Video==
===Topics discussed===
* Stephen Moffat's writing and producing, particularly the terrible directing and editing in Jekyll and the problems with New Who while he was showrunner.
* The differences between Sherlock and the original Arthur Conan Doyle stories and how Sherlock's writers seem to dislike telling mysteries.
* The Johnlock Conspiracy, in which a large portion of fans were convinced that the fourth season of Sherlock would have a secret 4th episode that would fix everything about the show.
* Sherlock's wasteful and at times bizarre production choices.
* A deconstruction of a single scene in which hbomberguy just yells about a boomerang for five minutes.
* The treatment of women in the show, especially Irene Adler, and the queerbaiting and homophobia presented by Moriarty.
* Also everything about Moriarty.
* The awful way fans are portrayed in the show and the contempt it shows for the strongest parts of Sherlock's fandom.
===Structure===
The video has 12 parts.
* Part One: The Story of Steven Moffat 3:05MintStars, comment on YouTube in July 2018. Accessed 10 October 2018. It was missing Part Twelve: CONCLUSION
* Part Two: Overarching Plot 7:10
* Part Three: Sherlock The All-Important Ubermensch 27:15
* Part Four: Moriarty 39:25
* Part Five: AESTHETICS or How to waste license payer money 47:05
* Part Six: John Watson 55:11
* Part Seven: Mary Watson 56:58
* Part Eight: Irene Adler 58:20
* Part Kill Me: THE SCENE 1:04:07
* Part Ten: Literally everything about season 4 1:09:01
* Part Eleven: CONTEMPT 1:34:33
* Part Twelve: CONCLUSION 1:40:48
==Excerpts==
Then there are the two recent 1:45ish
==Discussion and response==
===Tumblr, 2017===
===Dreamwidth, 2018===
===Tumblr, 2018===
===Tumblr, 2019===
===Other===
* Reddit: 
**/r/television/ 
**/r/Sherlock/2 
**/r/videoessay/ 
**/r/DoctorWho/ 
**and a handful of others
* “Sherlock is Garbage and Here’s Why” is Garbage, and Here’s Why: Critical Perspectives on a YouTuber’s reception of Sherlock
**PART ONE: ACCOUNTING FOR TASTE by William Shaw (archive)
**PART TWO: THE AESTHETICS OF THE BOMBERMAN by Samuel Maleski(archive)
**PART THREE: LOOK GOOD AND SAY AS LITTLE AS POSSIBLE by Samuel Maleski(archive)
**PART FOUR: “THE LYING DETECTIVE” AND THE DEATH OF SHERLOCK by William Shaw(archive)
* random forums: quora
==External links==
* Video with Russian subtitles
==References==
Category:The Johnlock ConspiracyCategory:SherlockCategory:Sherlock Holmes MetaCategory:2017 Meta