Enola Holmes Is Not About Sherlock And You Need To Accept This. Period

People are also upset that Sherlock’s sleuthing skills were also underused. Enola Holmes solved the mystery of the Marquess’ family before Sherlock, which isn’t sitting well with many puritans.

While art is subjective and everyone should have their own takeaways from a film, bashing the film itself for how it treated one of its character is a little underhanded. However, there is a solid explanation, at least for the first problem.

The reason Sherlock feels very different from Doyle’s books and other cinematic adaptations, is because the film is not based on those books. The film is based on The Enola Holmes Mysteries: The Case of the Missing Marquess by American author Nancy Springer. Also what’s funny with Sherlock not being a sociopath here, is that Doyle’s estate is suing Enola Holmes and Netlflix for showing Sherlock in a more human light.

According to the estate, many of Doyle’s later Sherlock Holmes stories are not in public domain yet. These stories were written after the author lost his brother and eldest son and here, the detective shows human emotions. Arthur Conan Doyle’s estate is literally suing Enola Holmes for “copying” that and making Sherlock Holmes similar to those in the British author’s later books. So much for “legitimacy”!