YMMV / The Irregulars

• Complete Monster:
  • The Linen Man, presenting himself as a kindly mentor figure, is a powerful Ipsissimus who is in truth a sadistic monster with pretensions of godhood. Having first broken the mind of his best friend over jealousy, the Linen Man has tortured and shattered the minds of countless people since. Causing a massacre upon his arrival in London, the Linen Man kills all in his way to gain the power of the Rip and achieve dominion over the Earth, with even his supposed affection for Jessie being a front so he might see her breed with his son to produce a powerful race of psychics to be his legacy.
  • "Chapter Three: Ipsissimus": Patricia Colman Jones is a member of the Golden Dawn who murders its leader in the fashion of The Hanged Man. Patricia uses the murder to brainwash Mycroft Holmes into bringing The Irregulars to their headquarters where she kills more members, basing her murders on Tarot Cards . As the Irregulars try solving their deaths, Patricia lures Jessie to a tower where she brainwashes her into latching herself onto a lightning rod, which slowly drains Jessie of her life while Patricia plans to steal Jessie's powers for herself; when Spike frees Jessie from Patricia's brainwashing, Patricia resorts to shooting the two adolescents.
• Critical Dissonance: Critics had a much more positive reaction to the series compared to most viewers. On Rotten Tomatoes the critical score is 78%, while the audience score is 55%, while Metacritic has it at 60% (critics) and 51% (fans) and IMDB has it at 58% (with the ratings for each individual episode varying from 63% to 71%). Google reviews, however, has it at 81%.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: A complaint among some fans is that Watson and Holmes have so little in common with their original counterparts, they should have been separate characters altogether. The focus on supernatural elements is also divisive, since it runs contrary to the focus on reason and logic that drives the original stories (compare The Hound of the Baskervilles, where the titular hound is ultimately proven to be part of a clever plot rather than a demonic monster).
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Some viewers felt the show should have dispensed with the Sherlock Holmes elements altogether, since they have little bearing on the plot and feel like they were merely inserted for big name appeal.
• Uncertain Audience: The show tries to cater to Sherlock Holmes fans except that most of the Holmesian fans hated it given the portrayals of Holmes and Watson who bear little resemblance to the canon. The supernatural elements also turned them off and didn't mesh well. When Netflix announced its cancellation, the show was completely forgotten.