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The characters are offbeat, but believable. The holistic assassin (victims just drop into her lap), and the zoned-out cultists chasing everybody around? It all makes perfect sense. The woman tied up in the apartment upstairs. The punks in the other van outside that jump out and break stuff. Once you realize this, you’ll be looking at everything wondering: is this a clue? And the answer is, of course it is. Now this isn’t to say that there aren’t still questions about the characters’ backstories, and indeed, that does set up season two, but there’s an explanation for the vast majority of really weird stuff you’ve been watching for the last eight hours, and I know for sure it’s eight, because this show does really reward binging. There’s no wasted viewing with plot threads that don’t resolve or go nowhere.
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It’s certainly not as dark as shows like Lost, or Dark, and is closer in tone to some of the lighter X-Files episodes, or the British TV series Red Dwarf.Īt the end of the first season all the questions raised around the primary mystery are answered. The violence (as there are some very bad people doing very bad things) leans towards cartoonish and is just gory enough to make the point.
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Okay, not joke-every-30-seconds sitcom funny, but it has a light tone and manages to take full comedic advantage of the sometimes dark and usually surreal situations the characters find themselves in, even though they may not be amused by it at the time. You can drop it knowing you gave it a fair chance. If you’re not interested in this show halfway through the first episode, then it’s fair to say you probably won’t care for the rest of it. Here there’s nothing to explain because this show hits the ground running and nobody knows what’s going on. Here there’s no slow start, no “pilot episode is weak because it has to introduce everyone in an awkward and expository way”. As for why this is worth watching:Īs a personal aside, I hate recommendations that start with “give it a few episodes and it gets good”, which immediately makes me consider the attractive alternative of “maybe I just save my four hours in case your judgment sucks?”
So given all that, the viewer still doesn’t know: Who was in the penthouse room? What was the murder weapon? Who did Todd really see? Why did Dirk come in through Todd’s window in particular?īut that’s just some of the plot. It continues with bellhop Todd seeing somebody that looks just like him while he’s having the worst day possible, and Todd’s day ends with affable Brit Dirk Gently breaking into Todd’s second floor apartment through the window and announcing Todd is now his assistant. It opens on a crime scene in a hotel penthouse where the murder weapon was clearly something never before wielded by a human being. It works so well that the description of the first half of the first episode spoils absolutely nothing. This is the spirit of the TV show, and it works extremely well. Characters move from one jam to another while the pieces fall into place. Weird, random (but never arbitrary) seemingly unrelated occurrences.
Rather it’s more the spirit of those books. If you answered yes to being a Douglas Adams fan, then you’re probably familiar with the two Dirk Gently books he wrote, about a detective that wanders around while clues to his case (and these are weird cases with science fiction/fantasy elements) just drop into his lap. …then you’re gonna need to see Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, created by BBC America, where season one is on H u lu and season two will be coming to Netflix for viewers outside the United States on January 5 th.
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