Enola Holmes
Enola HolmesThe novelist Nancy Springer wrote a series of Enola Holmes Mysteries for “young adult readers”—starting with The Case of the Missing Marquess (2006)—and Netflix had the bright idea of adapting them into their very own Sherlock-adjacent mini-franchise. Last-ditch legal action on the part of the Conan Doyle Estate, which clings to copyright in some territories on a handful of late Doyle stories, might have made following up this introductory feature more trouble than it’s worth. Which is a shame, since it’s a lively enough piece of family-friendly adventure—smartly scripted by Jack Thorne, directed at a bit of a plod by Harry Bradbeer—with an appealing lead performance from Millie Bobby Brown as the hitherto-unmentioned younger sister of Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes
