Enola Holmes is a Mixed Curry Cooked and Served Right

Late 19th century, famous author Arthur Canon Doyle introduced world to the detective Sherlock Holmes. The popularity of Holmes transcends time influencing many till date to adapt, extend and portray the story and character in every possible form.

The Enola Holmes Mysteries is one of those series by Nancy Springer where she narrates the story of Enola Holmes, sister of Sherlock Holmes as prodigious as himself solving crimes too.

Enola Holmes, the movie recently aired on Netflix is first adaptation of the book where Enola enters the world of solving crime. On her 16th birthday, Enola's mother left her after raising her in most unladylike way due to which Enola's elder brother Mycroft wants to send her to boarding school to re-educate her. Sherlock can't interfere with Mycroft as being the elder brother Enola is in Mycroft care.

Unapologetically herself, Enola refuses to succumb to Mycroft's plan of limiting her to domesticity and decides to act o her own. She runs away from home to find her mother and live life on own's term. In the process, she happens to save Tewkesbury, a to be lord running away from his family wanting him to become an army and go on exploration. Like their stories, their path merge in the backdrop of England struggling with the reform bill.

The context connects the personal story of Enola to the larger issue of personal choice and freedom, feminism, politics and the desire for change. In doing so, it neither loses the original purpose of delivering the story nor preaches the wisdom. Setting story in the change hungry England and giving birth to a female character parallel to the most intelligent character of the history, made the association of larger than life issue with Enola natural and plausible which was taken a notch higher by the phenomenal performance of the actors.

Enola Holmes is everything- love, detective, coming of age story dealing with the abstract idea of feminism, political ambition, patriarchy, personal freedom and will cooked and served so well that you don't want it to end.