The series centers on a pair of teenage ghosts who take on supernatural cases while trying to avoid getting sent on to the afterlife.
should be a feast for the misery wraiths, faceless creatures who feed on pain and suffering. The ghostly protagonists, Edwin and Charles , are both teenagers bullied to death at the same British boarding school seven decades apart. They spend their time finding closure for other lost souls, like a pair of high schoolers cut down in their prime or a family slaughtered by an abusive patriarch.
Yet the duo only ever encounter one such monster over the eight-episode first season, and perhaps that’s because despite its gloomy-sounding premise,is the furthest thing from dour. Dark, sure; bittersweet, sometimes. But it’s never less than entertaining, thanks to an appealingly quirky lead cast and a cheeky sense of humor.splits each of its eight episodes between monster-of-the-week procedural storylines and serialized teen drama.
But it doesn’t hurt that Charles, a punkish charmer from the 1980s, has the hots for her — to the irritation of Edwin, a World War I-era bookworm whose affection for his best mate has grown more than friendly. And so, in a room rented from a surly goth butcher , the now-trio take on all manner of spooky supernatural adventures while sorting out their feelings about each other and themselves.
But the others are more hit or miss, struggling to maintain either their momentum or their weight . The Dead Boy Detective Agency’s driving motivation is a poignant one — “Our deaths didn’t matter, and no one ever solved them,” Edwin explains, and every case they crack is in an effort to ensure other souls aren’t forgotten the way they were. But in general, the series seems reluctant to delve too heavily into the angst, lest it drag down the mood.
Instead, it leans on zany plotting and warm chemistry to deliver good times. “This isn’t the Peach Pit,” Jenny snarks, but a huge part of‘ appeal is simply getting to hang out with these kids. They might be brought together by a desire to do the right thing “even if it’s scary and the odds are bad and we might die horrifically,” as Niko puts it.
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