![]() ![]() Mira Troy ( Dune’s Sharon Duncan-Brewster), secretary to the head of the Treasury, but largely underestimated as an older, unmarried Black woman. The sequel wisely expands upon Enola’s experiences with code-switching, this time more complicated than donning a boy’s outfit (though they bring back that joke), and this time delivered by someone who will remind Enola of her own relative privilege: Ms. Despite her brash charm and overconfidence, Enola is no chameleon: She can’t quite nail the humble factory girl manner (she’s hungry, but she’s not starving) then by contrast, she sticks out like a sore thumb at an elite ball due to her last-year fashion and-gasp-obliviousness regarding chaperones and other proper ladylike behavior. ![]() This is most obvious in the teenage sleuth’s penchant for going undercover. Despite having enough money to open her own detective agency, she has no clients despite saving the life of love interest Viscount Tewkesbury (Louis Partridge) and ensuring he can become a member of Parliament in the last movie, they haven’t really caught up since their awkward goodbye and despite being reunited with her mother Eudoria (Helena Bonham Carter), the latter is still too busy blowing things up in the name of the suffragette movement to coddle her daughter.Īs Enola’s search crosses class lines from factory floors to seedy theaters, to social events of the season, it only emphasizes how much the youngest Holmes child’s uneven upbringing failed to prepare her to fit into modern society. Though the movie jumps right into the style of its predecessor, with Fleabag-inspired breaking of the fourth wall (director Harry Bradbeer returns to the helm), the filmmakers wisely establish early on that Enola only wants you to think that she has it together. Despite Sherlock Holmes cautioning her against making the case about herself, it’s Enola’s personal investment-and especially her stumbles along the way-that make this second adventure so compelling. As she tugs at loose threads, Enola unravels a larger conspiracy involving the upper and lower classes, typhus and the Treasury, and even a familiar nemesis of her brother’s. But with all the credit for solving that movie’s mystery going to her more established older brother, Sherlock ( Henry Cavill), Enola’s sophomore outing in Enola Holmes 2 serves as something of a second debut: investigating a crime that no one else wants, the disappearance of a factory girl. Tis she! Enola Holmes ( Millie Bobby Brown), the whip-smart, socially awkward, fisticuffs-brandishing, disguise-swapping girl detective that Netflix introduced in a charming if overstuffed origin story in 2020. ![]()
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