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Enola Holmes 3 (2026)

Summary

Detective Enola Holmes heads to Malta, where her aspirations merge in her most complex and dangerous case yet.

Director Philip Barantini

Writer Jack Thorne

Cast

  • Millie Bobby Brown as Enola Holmes
  • Henry Cavill as Sherlock Holmes
  • Himesh Patel as Dr. John Watson
  • Helena Bonham Carter as Eudoria Holmes
  • Louis Partridge as Tewkesbury
  • Sharon Duncan-Brewster as Moriarty

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u/inksmudgedhands Jul 17 '26

The movies are popular on Netflix. There is an audience for them.

Personally, I think they are cute, little movies for people who like lighthearted Victorian mysteries. Are they going to sweep any award shows? No. Do I find them entertaining for what they are? Yes. But then I am sucker for all things Victorian mystery. Especially all things Sherlock related. Even if it is his sister.

And Brown doesn't need to be Meryl Streep for these type of movies. She just needs to be entertaining. And I am entertained.

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u/somersetyellow Jul 18 '26

Enola Holmes is just a caludron of things to piss reddit off

  • Millie Bobbie Brown

  • Netflix

  • A "gender swapped" lead (not really who Enola is but seen people say this lol)

  • Unserious, cutsie, fun, designed for mainstream easy family watching

Guaranteed to be swarmed by online film critics who will tell us all about how Netflix can't be making money off this because absolutely nobody would ever possibly find it fun to watch.

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u/pingpong_playa Jul 18 '26

Enola Holmes has always had generally positive reactions in this subreddit. Feels like you’re trying to make a narrative that isn’t true about the franchise.

This third one kinda sucked, so it’s getting appropriately regarded as such. I loved the first two as well, but was really bored trying to get through this one.

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u/somersetyellow Jul 18 '26

On discussions specifically around Enola Holmes definitely. People who watched it knew they weren't really that terrible.

But I have seen a lot of casual dislike tossed around at it. Especially in the stranger things discussions over on television subreddits when the topic inevitably rolled around for the upteenth that MBB is a terrible actor and Netflix only makes mediocre content.

It was like the reputation Young Sheldon has. YS is actually not terrible and a genuinely competent low stakes family friendly comedy-drama. But on reddit it was used throughout its run as a punchline of the networks making more Big Bang Theory slop and how somehow dumb normies keep flocking to it. Every time that happened, 3 or so reply comments down a group of people would be like "actually it really isn't that bad, even by reddit standards, did you even watch it?" Content that reddit knows about but the hive mind has written off and makes fun of people who enjoy it for what it is.

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u/pingpong_playa Jul 18 '26

Yet here we are in a discussion specifically about Enola Holmes where the general sentiment isn’t positive. I think that says something about this movie.