The Olive Opinion

  She's back! Enola Holmes returns in this all-new sequel to one of Netflix's most successful franchises, which also features Millie Bobby Brown. With most of the main cast returning and the plot set entirely in Malta, this threequel sees Enola now marrying Louise Partridge's Tewksbury, the slow-burn budding romance the franchise had been building towards. Unaware of how much they are adapting from Nancy Springer's book series, does this new installment live up to the expectations set by its well-received predecessors?  Enola is facing her greatest challenge yet. Marriage! And that is ultimately compounded by the disappearance of her more famous sibling, Sherlock Holmes. But boy, does the script immediately try to get to its point: not to spend time in Victorian London, but in Malta. The film has a considerably shorter runtime than the previous films, which I immediately found suspicious, and I later learned that they changed directors, which seemed to answer some of th...

  After The Summer I Turned Pretty ended, it seems Amazon Prime was banking on another romance hit for their streaming service, and they have found it. The Off Campus phenomenon is what everyone is talking about. Authored by Elle Kennedy, this first season adapts the first book, focusing on the fake-relationship trope between Hannah, an aspiring composer, and Garrett, the star hockey player on the college team.  Personally, the idea of this show did not appeal to me. From the outside perspective, it was another scandalous, almost trashy romance show that seemed to make a relationship unnecessarily messy to make the plot interesting. Based on that sentiment, it seemed that Off Campus was also capitalizing on the more problematic aspects of romance outlets that have been exciting audiences today.  However, I finally tuned in to the show a month after its release, and it does prove itself not only entertaining but also offering real, healthy ways of approaching several of ...