Millie Bobby Brown has already hit back at the criticism(Image: Netflix)
The film’s star has already hit out at fan criticism.
Viewers watching the latest Netflix adventure movie have been distracted by what they claim is a glaring error they can’t unsee. Enola Holmes 3 was recently added to the streaming platform continuing the admired film series.
It is the third instalment in the franchise made for the streamer that originated back in 2020. According to its synopsis, adventure chases detective Enola Holmes to Malta, where personal and professional dreams collide on a case more tangled and treacherous than any she has faced before.
Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown returns to reprise her role of the titular hero Enola Holmes. As does House of Guiness actor Louis Partridge, playing love interest Teweksbury, with former Superman and Witcher Geralt Henry Cavill once again playing Enola’s brother and world famous detective Sherlock Holmes.
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It hasn’t been as embraced by critics as the first two which registered which earned a score of 91% and 93% on Rotten Tomatoes respectively. At the time of writing Enola Holmes 3 has only managed a 73% rating.
Fans are split over the importance of the error(Image: Netflix )
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However, some fans are more concerned by what they believe is a glaring error in the production. One moment, from a scene set in Malta, sees Enola peering around a corner.
But instead of staying in the dramatic moment, fans couldn’t help but notice that Millie’s character, who lives in the Victorian era, has gel nails.
One fan shared on social media the image with the caption: “Enola Holmes taking place in 1885 while Millie’s nails giving full 2026 gel manicure.”
Someone replied: “Period pieces fail the second modern beauty standards leak in. Audiences read authenticity through tiny details now.”
Before the film’s release, Millie already hit back at the criticism. Speaking to the BBC, she said: “How bleak and boring of the internet, I love a good manicure and so does Enola. I wasn’t disappointed but I was like, oh OK, that’s what the articles are about. But then again, the internet does not surprise me these days. I’ve been through it on the internet.”
Meanwhile, the film’s director Philip Barantini, who also helmed award winning miniseries Adolescence, has said he didn’t bother with “small things”.
He added: “Maybe they do for some people but it made me laugh. We just live in a world where everyone is hyper-aware and they find something to zone in on, and it becomes a huge thing.”
Some fans have defended the film’s mistake as they understand it has never attempted to be historically accurate. After all, they are based on the book series published between 2006 and 2023 rather than real-life historical events.
Fans have been distracted by the character’s fashion choices(Image: Netflix )
A report in The Guardian claims that archaeologists have discovered Egyptian mummies (dating to 5,000 BC) with gilded nails and henna-tinted fingertips as well as a solid gold manicure set in southern Babylonia, dating to 3,200 BC, that was apparently part of combat equipment.
So maybe some nail art in Enola Holmes 3 isn’t as historically inaccurate as it first appears, even if gel sets specifically weren’t in use around the 1980s.
