Available on Netflix since February,
Sisyphus is a Korean sci-fi series that focuses on a time travel story between a genius engineer Han Tae-Sul (Cho Seung-Woo) and his savior from the future Kang Seo-Hae (Park Shin-Hye). Rarely seen by female leads, Seo-Hae exhibits impressive close combat fighting and a variety of shooting skills.
Sisyphus is packed with action and inspiring female empowerment.
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Based on a young adult detective novel series, the story begins when Enola (Millie Bobby Brown) wakes to find that her mother has disappeared, leaving behind an odd assortment of gifts but no apparent clue as to where she’s gone or why. The predicament leaves Enola under the supervision of her strict older brother who desires to send her off to boarding school for “proper” young ladies. Refusing this fate, Enola escapes and embarks on a journey to London to find her mother, ending up on a thrilling adventure with a new friend.
Dickensian, Fleabag) directs this story based on young adult author Nancy Springer s book
The Case of the Missing Marquess: An Enola Holmes Mystery, the first in a series of mystery novels about Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes precocious younger sister, Enola (Millie Bobby Brown). Henry Cavill is the crack detective, Sherlock, and Sam Claflin is the politician, Mycroft. When Enola discovers her mother, Eudoria (Helena Bonham Carter), has gone missing, she embarks on a mission to find her. On the train to London, she encounters a runaway lord, young Tewkesbury (Louis Partridge), who s being followed by man named Linthorn (Burn Gorman), who appears to want Tewkesbury dead.