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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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