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SURPRISE! Bonus episode out today! We watched the brand new Netflix movie Enola Holmes and we have some opinions to share. Mostly good! We cover the excellent casting and how great Millie Bobby Brown is, the fun not-quite-period design but how we forgive it due to "whimsy," the similarities and differences to canon Holmes tropes, and how this is the most YA Netflix movie not to originally be made by Netflix. We do discuss the current lawsuit from the Conan Doyle estate and also how Henry Cavill is just too big of a person to be in Victorian clothes, as well as the varied portrayals of all kinds of women in the Victorian age. Katy had to get over some of her Holmes sister hangups, Carrie held her first (of many) Cavill Corners, Maddy was perhaps a bit hungover and therefore less forgiving than normal, and Mack got sad about statue destruction. We also cover our ignorance of and disregard for the English aristocracy and their unspoken pronunciation rules, ponder just how much syphilis was around in the East End, wonder if whalebone can stop bullets, play spot-the-actor from Agatha Christie adaptations, and try to decide if farts can propel a vehicle. Carrie got distracted by a forest and Mack does a very odd Darth Vader impression. Give it a listen! P.S., spoilers abound so listen with caution!

TW: domestic terrorism, misogyny

CORRECTIONS:

-For more information about Joseph Pujol, the professional farter, see this Wiki page

-Katy did not mean to imply that feminine ladies could not also be strong women; she was alluding more to the fact that Enola\u2019s mother raised her purposefully not in the same way as was common in the day for young aristocratic women. If they were educated at all it was mostly in what was deemed \u201cappropriate\u201d for a young lady and did not encourage much original thought most of the time.

-See the Great Ormond Street Hospital\u2019s statement on the copyright of Peter Pan here