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Hello and welcome to another Slate Spoiler Special.

Today we're spoiling Anola Holmes, a new Netflix movie starring Millie Bobby Brown as Sherlock Holmes's lesser-known little sister, whose name, as she's so fond of pointing out, spells Alone Backward. I'm Marissa-Naliyle, and associate editor at Slate. And my name backwards spells I'll name backwards, spells I So make of that what you will. I'm joined by

Laura Miller, books and culture columnist at Slate. My name backwards is Relymoral, which I know

very well because when your name is something like Laura Miller and you need to come up with a

unique user ID, spelling your name backwards is usually the easiest way to do it.

I'm envious of you, Laura, because my first name backwards starts with ass.

So it's out of the question.

So there have been so many adaptations and sequels and offshoots of Sherlock Holmes over the years.

I'm curious what your expectations were for this young female-centric version that wound up going to Netflix

because of the pandemic. Well, that's an interesting question. What are my expectations? I mean,

I feel like Sherlock Holmes is both a very narrow set of motifs and locations, you know, it's a very

specific feeling. And there have been so many attempts to sort of just recreate that feeling

or to sort of take it in some new direction, you know, have Holmes have some other kind of adventure

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