Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (2016)

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   greenhorg

   Don't know what the Adams' books are like but this feels like a live action 'Baccano!', with an overstuffed ensemble cast of zany characters bouncing off one another as they scramble around for who knows what. It's fun! 2 years 9 months ago
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   Siskoid

   As a teenage Douglas Adams fan, I of course read his Dirk Gently novels, but was disappointed at the time that they were so grounded, compared to Hitchhikers' Guide. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, the television show, doesn't retread the books however. Rather, they happened in the past, and now Dirk is in America, teaming up with Elijah Wood and a cast of zanies on season-long (8-to-10-episode) holistic cases. Each season has a lot of energy and absurdist humor, but tends to end with a bad case of epiloguitis. Season 1 feels the need to explain its convoluted plot several time while shuffling its characters around. Season 2 doesn't do it as much, but it's bothersome that it does so at all, seeing as it sets up plot threads that will dangle forever. The show's not coming back. Too bad because even if I had problems with it from time to time - I do wonder if the secret government agency and attempt to explain "people like Dirk" was surplus to requirements - it was never not watchable. Bart the holistic assassin (played by Fiona Dourif - yes, of THOSE Dourifses) was a particular favorite. No idea how it compares to the short 2010 BBC Dirk Gently series, but this version was a fun mix of genres and insane, anything-could-happen, plotting. 6 years 5 months ago

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