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So Sherlock Holmes is usually a quirky, oddball detective who fights crime while being a dick to everyone around him. His sister Enola Holmes, however, has to overcome the challenge of being a woman in the Victorian era, before she can be as cool. At least that’s what Netflix’s Enola Holmes official trailer seems to make it all about, anyway. The new movie is all about Sherlock’s younger sister, who embarks on an adventure on her own in the new Netflix original movie.
Bobby Millie Brown Shines As The Charming Enola Holmes
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After playing the monosyllabic girl with powers removed from society in Stranger Things, this is Bobby Millie Brown’s most charming role to date. As Enola, she is outspoken and rebellious, traits that make her ‘unacceptable’ to society in this era. Enola Holmes is from on the novels of Nancy Spriner, about the adventures of Sherlock Holmes’s sister. The trailer, however, paints a different picture about the challenges that Enola faces.
Netflix’s Enola Holmes official trailer starts with Brown narrating her character’s story to the audience directly. Raised by her just as adventurous mother who goes missing, Enola has to reunite with her brothers to find her. However, the brothers Sherlock (Henry Cavill) and Mycroft (Sam Claflin) find her demeanor of an independent girl who bucks societal expectations, unacceptable. So they enlist her in some sort of lady-training school. Obviously, Enola escapes and starts the search for her mother on her own. What follows is an action-adventure about the younger Holmes as she becomes a badass on her own, and plays by her own rules.
Netflix’s Enola Holmes Official Trailer Has Everything For A Fun Adventure
The trailer is honestly fun and super entertaining. The movie is set in a time when women should be only visible and not heard, as they say. But instead, Enola is throwing, punching and taking down bad guys, while trying to subvert the expectations of the men in her life and it’s honestly refreshing. I do wish that the big focus of the trailer on Enola’s un-ladylike personality didn’t seemingly play such a big part of the movie. Sure, she’s not your typical woman of that era, but a few jokes could have been enough. Instead of an entire subplot and montage of her forced to be more like a typical woman. It felt like the big bad guy is more the repressive and misogynist era that Enola was born in, than whoever the actual bad guy is. Hopefully, the movie doesn’t have the same attitude.
Enola Holmes premieres on Netflix on September 23.
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