Dead Boy Detectives

Dead Boy Detectives

TV-MA

netflix

A colorful teen comedy, but a dragging supernatural mystery

7.5

TV Show

United States of America
English
Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
2024
Briana Cuoco, George Rexstrew, Jayden Revri

TLDR

It's splashes of Umbrella Academy meeting the ashes of The Sandman.

What it's about

Two dead boys and their living friends solve mysterious cases from their ghost clients, while trying to avoid trouble in the afterlife.

The take

Dead Boy Detectives is as light fun as it sounds, but breezy it is not. Its case of the episode formula has fun, at times absurd premises that leads to satisfying conclusions, which makes it feel like a vibrant teen cartoon series. But so much of an episode is banter in the form of bloated dialogue that can go in one ear and quickly out the other. It's colorful, cute, and quirky at times, and it's easy to root for its energetic bits and seamless tying of threads; but all in all, watching one episode after another, it can feel unnecessarily dragged out for the kind of light mystery show that it is.

What stands out

I live for the Power Rangers fight choreography.

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