Enola Holmes 3

To give a sense of how many plates Barantini and Thorne are spinning with Netflix’s latest dive into the world of Nancy Springer’s wildly popular books, consider this. In the first ten minutes of the movie there is *deep breath* a jailbreak plot, a ‘one year later’ time jump-forward, a ‘some months earlier’ time jump-back, a horse-drawn-carriage chase, both the beginning of a wedding and then the proposal (in that order), the reveal that Henry Cavill’s Sherlock Holmes is missing, and some plot-pertinent exposition relating to the Explosive Substances Act of 1883. Oh, and everyone heads off to Malta for Enola Holmes’ (Millie Bobby Brown) and Lord Viscount Earnest Augustus Tewkesbury’s (Louis Partridge) nuptials. And yet somehow — somehow — this third sister-sleuther caper is nearly half an hour shorter than Enola Holmes 2. (Which, in almost any other circumstance, would actually be a blessed relief.)