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‘Enola Holmes 3’ comes to Netflix almost six years after the platform rescued the young detective from what would have been a very lackluster theatrical release. With it, Millie Bobby Brown returns to the role that made her famous outside of Hawkins, just six months after ‘Stranger Things’ closed its final season. Malta replaces London as the setting, and a kidnapping replaces a wedding as the driving force of the plot. The wedding, of course, is still there waiting its turn. Legendary had developed the first film for theatrical release, but the 2020 distribution halt led Netflix to purchase the distribution rights. The film, co-starring Henry Cavill as the legendary Sherlock Holmes, signed the best opening week for an original film up to that point. In its balance sheet for the third quarter of 2020, Netflix assured that 76 million accounts had seen the film in its first month. Two years later, ‘Enola Holmes 2’ repeated the hit: 64.08 million hours viewed in its first three days of broadcast. The origin of all this is Nancy Springer’s books, published between 2006 and 2023 and starring the little sister of Sherlock Holmes, a character invented by the author. The saga, made up of ten titles, had its corresponding dose of controversy: Conan Doyle’s heirs sued Springer, Legendary and Netflix in 2020 for alleged infringement of rights over the detective’s last ten original stories. On this occasion Enola Holmes travels to Malta to marry Lord Tewkesbury (Louis Partridge), but the ceremony is cut short when Dr. Watson (Himesh Patel) warns her that Sherlock (Henry Cavill) has been kidnapped. The investigation entangles her in a plot that mixes the British colonial past on the island (which includes a subplot about gold stolen by the English army in Afghanistan) with the tensions of a local group demanding independence from the Crown, while Moriarty (Sharon Duncan-Brewster) continues to pull strings from the shadows. In Xataka | ‘Torrente, Presidente’ has broken records at the box office, and now you can check on Netflix if the scandal was a big deal