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Brainerd Dispatch • September 20 - 26, 2020 •19 By Jessica Gosse TV Media WHAT'S NEW ON NETFLIX "Enola Holmes" (2020) Everyone is familiar with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's world-famous detective Sherlock Holmes, but on Wednesday, Sept. 23, the world is introduced to his rebellious teen- age sister, Enola (Millie Bobby Brown, "Stranger Things"), as this action-packed film premieres on Netflix. Raised in the countryside by her eccentric mother, Eudoria (Helena Bonham Carter, "The Crown"), Enola's upbringing was far from standard. Rather than learning skills such as embroidery and how to be a "proper lady," she learned about science and obser- vation and how to fight (whether it be hand-to-hand or with a sword). However, her happy life is sud- denly changed when, on her 16th birthday, she wakes up to discover that her mother has disappeared, leaving behind only an assort- ment of unusual gifts. Now, Enola is placed in the care of her genius (and famous) brothers, Sherlock (Henry Cavill, "Justice League," 2017) and Mycroft (Sam Clafin, "Me Before You," 2016). Despite having spent minimal time with them in the past, Enola is sure that her brothers will lend their skills to helping her find their mother. Unfortunately, it quickly becomes clear they have no intention of helping her, but rather intend to ship her off to finishing school so she can become a proper lady. Realizing she's on her own, Enola does the only thing she can: she runs away from finishing school and uses her own sleuthing skills to find her mother before her brothers can track her down and bring her back. Based on the series of novels by Nancy Springer, don't miss this intriguing film when it premieres this Wednesday. WHAT'S NEW ON HULU "The Addams Family" (2019) In the early 1960s, an entire gen- eration fell in love with a spooky and kooky family in the live-action television series "The Addams Family." Thirty years later, in the 1990s, the phenomenon was repeated when the acclaimed Addams Family movies starring Anjelica Huston ("Smash"), Chris- topher Lloyd ("Back to the Future," 1985), Christina Ricci ("Penelope," 2004) and Raul Julia ("Presumed Innocent," 1990) hit theaters. Now, once again, the eccentric and macabre family is back in the 2019 animated film coming to Hulu on Tuesday, Sept. 22. Charlize Theron ("The Old Guard," 2020) and Os- car Isaac ("A Most Violent Year," 2014) lend their voices to Morticia and Gomez Addams, who live in a Gothic mansion on a hill near the suburbs along with their two chil- dren, Wednesday (voiced by Chloë Grace Moretz, "If I Stay," 2014) and Pugsley (voiced by Finn Wolf- hard, "It," 2017), as well as Grand- ma (voiced by Bette Midler, "Hocus Pocus," 1993), Uncle Fester (voiced by Nick Kroll, "The League"), cousin It (voiced by Snoop Dogg, "Starsky & Hutch," 2004) and their loyal butler, Lurch (voiced by Conrad Vernon, "Shrek," 2001). Despite being on the edge of the suburb, the family's home is technically part of the community. This doesn't sit well with reality TV host Margaux (voiced by Allison Janney, "Mom"), who is trying to build a perfect neighborhood and sees the Addams family as a blight on the community — she will stop at nothing to get rid of them. Tensions only rise between the two families when Wednesday befriends Margaux's daughter, Parker (voiced by Elsie Fisher, "Castle Rock"), who begins to adopt Wednesday's dark style, causing Margaux to come up with a devious plan to turn the entire neighborhood against the Addams family. WHAT'S NEW ON DISNEY+ "Secret Society of Second- Born Royals" (2020) As a royal, if you aren't first in line to inherit the crown, is there really anything special about your title? Numerous books and movies have seen characters become villains purely because they are the second born (or, in the case of some, even further down the line). However, on Friday, Sept. 25, Disney shows that second-born royals have a lot more going for them than they think in the premiere of this fun family film. The film centers on Sam (Peyton Elizabeth Lee, "Andi Mack"), a teenage princess who has no interest in the royal way of life since it's her older sister who will become Queen of Illyria, not her. As a result, Sam's rebellious tendencies often get her into seri- ous trouble. Just as her latest es- capade lands her in police custody, she is introduced to Prof. James Morrow (Skylar Astin, "Pitch Per- fect," 2012), who recruits her to a top-secret training program. There, she meets January (Isabella Blake- Thomas, "Johnny English Reborn," 2011), Matteo (Faly Rakotoha- vana, "Raven's Home"), Roxana (Olivia Deeble, "Home and Away") and Tuma (Niles Fitch, "This Is Us"), all of whom are second in line to their respective thrones. They are all shocked when James informs them that, as second-born royals, they each have a special gene that has given them a unique superpower, and it is their job to learn how to harness that power and protect the world from evil. Now, the five unlikely friends band together as James trains them to use their gifts before evil strikes. WHAT'S NEW ON PRIME "Utopia" Inspired by the British series of the same name, this conspiracy thriller is set to premiere Friday, Sept. 25, on Prime. The show fol- lows a group of people — Becky (Ashleigh LaThrop, "Fifty Shades Freed," 2018), Wilson (Desmin Borges, "You're the Worst"), Sa- mantha (Jessica Rothe, "Forever My Girl," 2018) and Ian (Dan Byrd, "Cougar Town") — who, despite having never met in person, be- come online friends thanks to their shared love of a graphic novel called "Utopia," which depicts the creation of man-made viruses that can be used for biological warfare and ultimately lead to the end of the world. When the group meets up at a convention and discusses the novel, Samantha points out that it accurately predicted a num- ber of diseases that have ravaged humanity. As she explains her be- lief that the comic books hold hid- den meaning and predict human- ity's downfall, the rest of the group laughs, thinking she's simply a paranoid conspiracy theorist. But, when some of their other friends with an interest in "Utopia" suddenly die, the group quickly realizes that Samantha's theories were right. Now, the ragtag group must fight for their own survival while working to bring down the corporation that is creating these viruses. Rainn Wilson ("The Of- fice") and John Cusack ("Never Grow Old," 2019) also star in this intense new series. "Judy" (2019) Academy Award winner Renee Zellweger ("Chicago," 2002) stars as the legendary singer and actress Judy Garland in this biographical drama that joins the Prime lineup on Friday, Sept. 25. Based on Peter Quilter's stage play "End of the Rainbow," the film follows Garland in 1968, 30 years after the success of "The Wizard of Oz," as her career is beginning to dwindle and she is finding it harder and harder to take care of her two children. When she is offered a deal performing at the "Talk of the Town" nightclub in London, she makes the hard choice to leave her kids with her ex-husband and take the job so she can support them. As she takes on the five-week engagement, she struggles with the combined pressures of fame, parenthood and money problems, coping in the only way she knows how –- alcohol, substance abuse and throwing herself into her lat- est marriage to her longtime friend Mickey Deans (Finn Wittrock, "American Horror Story"). Henry Cavill, Millie Bobby Brown and Sam Clafin star in "Enola Holmes" Skylar Astin in "Secret Society of Second-Born Royals" Dan Byrd, Desmin Borges, Jessica Rothe and Ashleigh LaThrop as seen in "Utopia"

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