Dead Boy Detectives: Season 1

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Dead Boy Detectives: Season 1

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Netflix | Season Premiere Date: April 25, 2024

Summary: Ghosts and best friends Edwin Payne (George Rexstrew) and Charles Rowland (Jayden Revri) solve supernatural cases with help from clairvoyant Crystal (Kassius Nelson) and her friend Niko (Yuyu Kitamura) in this series based on characters created for DC by Neil Gaiman and Matt Wagner.

Genre(s): Comedy, Action & Adventure, Fantasy, Science Fiction

Season 1 Episodes

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S1:E8. The Case of the Hungry Snake
Air Date: November 30, -0001
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S1:E7. The Case of the Very Long Stairway
Air Date: November 30, -0001
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S1:E6. The Case of the Creeping Forest
Air Date: November 30, -0001

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Liz Shannon Miller

Apr 25, 2024

The mysteries are inventive, but it’s the characters and their relationships that keep the show addictive, especially when it comes to Edwin and Charles. Read full review

Empire David Opie

Apr 25, 2024

Dead Boy Detectives takes the Sandman universe in a thrilling new YA-led direction that infuses old-school case-of-the-week storytelling with a modern spin that's anything but ghastly. Read full review

Robert Lloyd

Apr 25, 2024

But if there’s nothing groundbreaking here, it’s all uncommonly well done — cleverly written, smartly cast, sensitively played, marvelously realized. Read full review

Angie Han

Apr 25, 2024

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. Read full review

Bill Goodykoontz

Apr 25, 2024

I’m never going to be the one to complain about a showcase for supernatural mysteries. I do wish, however, that “Dead Boy Detectives” had more focus, and that some of those mysteries were more compelling. And someone just give the Cat King his own show. Read full review

Eric Goldman

Apr 25, 2024

The more serialized aspects are hit-or-miss, with some subplots and characters feeling extraneous and meandering, even while strong performances help elevate the threats posed by its villains. Read full review

The Independent Katie Rosseinsky

Apr 25, 2024

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. Read full review

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: April 25, 2024
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  S1:E8. The Case of the Hungry Snake
  Air Date: November 30, -0001
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  S1:E7. The Case of the Very Long Stairway
  Air Date: November 30, -0001
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  S1:E6. The Case of the Creeping Forest
  Air Date: November 30, -0001
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  S1:E5. The Case of the Two Dead Dragons
  Air Date: November 30, -0001
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  S1:E4. The Case of the Lighthouse Leapers
  Air Date: November 30, -0001
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  S1:E3. The Case of the Devlin House
  Air Date: November 30, -0001
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  S1:E2. The Case of the Dandelion Shrine
  Air Date: November 30, -0001
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  S1:E1. The Case of Crystal Palace
  Air Date: November 30, -0001