I’VE REALLY COME TO LIKE this movie franchise (It’s more a movie and sequels than a series). Millie Bobby Brown is the name of the lead (Enola). She’s going to do a lot more and become an even bigger deal.

You get Helena Bonham Carter and Henry Cavill, too. Supporting cast is solid. The writers took some license with the family Holmes history (unless there’s an original story that suggests otherwise), but I like what they do with it:  remarkable people often emerge from dysfunctional or atypical parenting.

There’s a touch of irony in the fact that the stories take place during the suffrage movement in England (which may coincide with Conan Doyle’s time) while

a very patriarchal franchise now spotlights the forgotten sister of the great detective and his brother.  And then there’s Moriarity…

WRH