![]() ![]() Nor, for that matter, is the homicidal thug chasing Tewkesbury and who keeps running into Enola, or the young Ms. Once they arrive in Blighty, the two teens go their separate ways. ![]() He’s folded himself into a satchel so as to smuggle himself to safety, as his family is looking for him and his life may be in danger. She also meets a boy in a bag, who turns out to be Lord Tewkesbury (Louis Patridge). Slipping on to a train while dressed as a young man - this is her go-to getaway costume she’s a master of many skills but only one single disguise - Enola heads to London in search of her mum. She is turned to be into a “proper lady.” No dice. Soon, Sherlock ( Justice League‘s Superman, Henry Cavill) and Mycroft ( The Hunger Game‘s superhunk Sam Claflin) arrive to suss out the situation, with the latter intending to send Enola to a finishing school. ![]() So give a heart welcome to Enola (Millie Bobby Brown), introduced biking through England’s mountains green and asking, in the first of her many direct addresses to the audience, “Where to begin?” (The number of conspiratorial asides in this inaugural adventure falls somewhere between a typical episode of Dora the Explorer and both combined seasons of Fleabag - which maybe isn’t surprising, given director Harry Bradbeer was an executive producer on/helmed most of Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s comedy.) After a quick training montage involving the girl and her quirky mother (Helena Bonham Carter), the young Holmes awakens on her 16th birthday to find that her remaining parent has disappeared. And now, this plucky young sleuth-to-be is set to be the center of her very own movie series. She is whip-smart, adept at codebreaking and, once she eventually masters a complicated leg-hold known as “the corkscrew,” practically a jujitsu expert. Though the lass is younger than Sherlock, Enola’s powers of observation are almost as acute. ![]() Most of all, she’s been taught to be self-reliant and not accept what Victorian England has in store for young women, i.e. Raised in the countryside by their mom after the Holmes patriarch’s untimely passing, Enola was home-schooled in the art of self-defense, various sciences and a host of other subjects. (As for details regarding the more obscure Sigerson Holmes, well … you’ll have to inquire, via a medium, with the ghost of Gene Wilder about him.)īut what of Enola Holmes, the youngest child of the Holmes clan? This lesser-known branch of the family tree - and the heroine of a half dozen YA books by writer Nancy Springer - is the teenage sibling of the two brothers, though she’s essentially grown up as an only child Sherlock and Mycroft left to find their fortunes in London when she was but a toddler. Fans of Arthur Conan Doyle’s novels about the resident of 221B Baker Street - along with the legion of movie, TV, radio-play and stage-production adaptations of his mysteries - are also familiar with the recurring character of his older brother Mycroft, who has some very important but vaguely defined job in the British government. We all know of one Sherlock Holmes, he of the calabash pipe, expert deductive skills and a century-plus worth of pop-cultural staying power. ![]()
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