Jun 9, 2026
Our favorite female sleuth returns.
If you're a fan of the first two 'Enola Holmes' movies - and considering the massive numbers both wracked up, you probably are - this could not be a more exciting moment. Indeed, the first trailer for the third installment of the series has just been released, and it already has us all atwitter for the July 1 streaming debut on Netflix.
First, let's put it all in perspective. The Nancy Springer book series, upon which the movies are based, has been going since 2006, with nine novels already published, and total sales in the millions (exact figures are hard to come by, for some reason). The first film set streaming records, have reached 76 million homes in just 28 days - while notching up a 91% score on Rotten Tomatoes. The first sequel, if you can imagine, did even better, with a 93% score.
They follow budding sleuth Enola (played with charming panache by 'Stranger Things' star Millie Bobby Brown), younger sister of the most famous detective ever, London's (mostly) unfoolable Sherlock Holmes ('Superman' hunk Henry Cavill). She risks her life, stops at nothing, and even manages to fall in love with the sometimes awkward but nevertheless appropriately dashing young Lord Tewkesbury, with the impossibly handsome Louis Partridge returning in that role.
Spoiler alert, the smitten Tewkesbury proposes to her in film number three, causing the fiercely independent Enola to fear possibly losing her, well...independence. "Can I love him without losing myself?", she quite reasonably questions herself.
All manner of mayhem breaks loose before the wedding, however, as Dr, Watson informs her that her brother Sherlock has been kidnapped. It's all fittingly set to the soundtrack of an updated version of the Billy Idol classic 'White Wedding' - because, of course it would be.
It's important here to reconsider her ultimate credo: "My name is Enola, which backwards spells alone."
How marriage manages to jibe with that, we simply won't know until the July 1 release date.



