Millie Bobby Brown, along with a really nice cast, is quite charming and drives this story well. Breaking the wall to the audience creates a welcome distraction and adds to the quirky fun you will have with this film. Because the film is fun at most times, if you manage to ignore some plot elements which just seem superficially thought through and so many inaccuracies about the period. One thing that I find striking is that Netflix seems to follow a certain diversity policy about casting. Making sure to show as many as possible people with non-white ethnic backgrounds in a Victorian setting is plainly silly though. Politically this works for me being a firm believer in equal opportunities, but in art? Would you make a film about Malcolm X with a lot of white guys around the main character? So, why does Lestrade for instance now have to have a different ethnic background? Yes, it is fantasy, so why bother you might ask. Rightly so, ignore it. In the meantime I will dream of a world, where the colour of your skin, your gender and background really does not matter.
Review of Enola Holmes
