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Positive:
11
Mixed:
8
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews
Apr 25, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Entertaining, often quite weird, and strangely charming by turns, Dead Boy Detectives doesn’t quite reach the emotional and narrative heights of The Sandman. But it’s a good time in its own right, and its existence serves as an important reminder that there is (so much) more to this fictional world than Tom Sturridge’s Dream, and plenty of hidden corners worth exploring.
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Apr 25, 2024
Season 1 Review:
What is consistent is how well constructed the series is otherwise. Its principals’ overarching narratives build through each episode’s freestanding mystery. The show is really about Edwin, Charles and Crystal’s tough, horrifying journey toward their better selves. These are basically moral tales with well-executed gore and gags. There’s no firmer foundation for good ghost stories.
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Apr 25, 2024
Season 1 Review:
The rules of “Dead Boy Detectives” are never quite clear; the ghosts can lift corporeal objects, but can’t feel physical touch. Yet the show is so packed with idiosyncratic archetypes, from a walrus-turned-man named Tragic Mick (Michael Beach) to immortal witch Esther (Jenn Lyon), that the haphazard, stitched-together quality becomes part of the charm.
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Apr 25, 2024
Season 1 Review:
The series might not inspire quite that level of devotion, at least in its solid-but-not-sensational first season. But it’s the sort of consistently likable amusement that in Charles’s 1980s heyday might have become long-running appointment viewing — and that we in the 2020s get to enjoy as a zippy, satisfying binge.
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Apr 25, 2024
Radio TimesApr 25, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Something tells me most people who watch the show will agree we could have left the cringey exclamations of "brills!" out of the script. Despite this, and some characters who didn't pack as much of a punch as they could have, the series has heart and depth, and it's a convincing expansion of the Sandman universe, which is more than can be said for many recent spin-offs.
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RogerEbert.comApr 25, 2024
Apr 25, 2024
Season 1 Review:
That the series begins without an origin story, with details dribbling out as the narrative flows, is calculated to distract from what a viewer instinctively needs and which isn't much to ask for—a set of guidelines about the who, the where and the what. The Dead Boys are entertaining, sure. But enough with the questions.
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The IndependentApr 25, 2024
Season 1 Review:
There’s stuff to like here: The White Lotus’s Lukas Gage is plenty of fun as one of the show’s more memorable villains, the Cat King, who seems to have burst straight out of a cursed production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber show, and Rexstrew and Revri are charming leads. But it’s not enough to make you want to stick with the convoluted, but somehow still predictable, plotting.
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