Truth Seekers
Prime Video | Release Date: October 30, 2020
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
60
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 10 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
7
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
The GuardianRebecca NicholsonOct 30, 2020
Season 1 Review: While it works as a spooky drama, Truth Seekers is underpowered as a comedy. The jokes, often couched in Frost’s trademark droll delivery, are barely there; more like an afterthought than the backbone of the series. Read full review
60
The TelegraphEd PowerOct 30, 2020
Season 1 Review: The problem with Truth Seekers is that it’s a 21st century Amazon Prime comedy-horror that not so secretly wants to be an unnerving BBC kids caper circa 1978 and generally lacks any deeper ambitions. Frost and Pegg will never not be likeable together. It’s just a pity Truth Seekers isn’t that bit funnier and scarier. Read full review
60
The IndependentEd CummingOct 29, 2020
Season 1 Review: Gus is motivated by grief, and Frost can do sensitive, too, but Truth Seekers sometimes struggles to achieve the right balance between its different elements. You can understand why they wanted to try something new, rather than play it safe, but director Edgar Wright’s absence looms large. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterDaniel FienbergOct 28, 2020
Season 1 Review: Truth Seekers isn't anywhere near as funny or scary as HBO's Los Espookys, but as single-agenda shows go it's still funnier than Fox's short-lived Ghosted and scarier than Hulu's likely-to-be-short-lived Helstrom. Read full review
42
ConsequenceClint WorthingtonOct 30, 2020
Season 1 Review: It wants to read like Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead, but forgets to include what made those such show-stopping game-changers in genre comedy. Like the ghosts the Truth Seekers seek, this show feels half-alive, translucent, and intangible. Read full review
42
The PlaylistBrian TallericoOct 22, 2020
Season 1 Review: It’s a show that seems content in the tonal middle—not funny but not scary or thrilling either. It just kind of sits there, almost refusing to go too broad into either of its genres. Read full review
40
RogerEbert.comNick AllenOct 29, 2020
Season 1 Review: This horror-comedy series just wants to make you chuckle, and with regards to its potential scares, only a little anxious. But it's so resoundingly slack and lazily written that neither its horror or comedy have that vital sense of timing, or danger. Read full review
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