In no particular order without much rhyme or reason, viewers will meet Amanda (Hannah Marks), Todd’s sister who has Pararibulitis (a pretty awful disease where the mind affects the body in physical ways) Farah (Jade Eshete), a badass bodyguard Ken ( Mpho Koaho), a hacker who ends up in a very wrong place with Bartine (Fiona Dourif), a deadly “holistic” assassin The Rowdy 3 who are really four Gordon Rimmer (Aaron Douglas), leader of a cult called Men of the Machine Seattle police detectives Zimmerfield (Richard Schiff) and Estevez (Neil Brown) and a CIA head (Miguel Sandoval) investigating paranormal activity.Īgain, you pretty much have to opt in and just go with it to get Dirk Gently, but television needs absurdist/escapist fare that’s not just dumbed down by the networks but has a sense of ambitious fun.Ĭast: Elijah Wood, Samuel Barnett, Richard Schiff, Hannah Marks, Jade Eshete, Mpho Koaho, Fiona Dourif, Neil Brown, Miguel Sandoval, Dustin MilliganĬreated and written by: Max Landis, based on the books by Douglas AdamsĪirs: Saturdays, 9 p.m.After writing all the many and conflicting versions of the legendary "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," beloved author Douglas Adams created Dirk Gently: a detective with a belief in the fundamental interconnectedness of all things, a unique relationship with the laws of probability and physics, and a love of cats and pizza. The first two episodes of Dirk Gently will be an easy litmus test for fans of this kind of show, because it’s all over the map (intentionally) and veers wildly in tone.
One of the changes that Landis makes is adding at least one character who’s not in the book, Todd (Elijah Wood), who ends up unwillingly becoming a sidekick to Gently under very odd circumstances (and also, strangely, more of a central character in this version than Dirk Gently himself, though perhaps that will change in future episodes).įans of Wood on FX’s vastly underrated gem, Wilfred, may be able to get into Dirk Gently faster than others (who haven’t read the books) because Wood turns out to be very good at just going with it when things get strange - and you have an immediate rooting interest in him during both series. You can assume that not much will be clear for a while, if ever, and that’s part of the fun (because it’s played that way, not because things are being purposely held back from the audience). Whether it’s nature or the world or something higher or more obtuse that puts him on earth to solve crimes and perhaps prevent other crimes, it’s not entirely clear. Gently (Samuel Barnett) is a self-described “holistic” detective with a psychic ability to find connections in everything, though only some of it makes sense to those he’s trying to convince. Douglas described it as a “thumping good detective-ghost-horror-whodunit-time-travel-romantic-musical-comedy-epic,” but undoubtedly Landis will have his own spin. But really Dirk Gently is mostly a fun, absurdist story that will have loads of weird twists and turns that involve a kitten that might be a shark, time travel, some entities that could be dumb vampires, animals that might be humans, a female assassin who can’t be killed and many other oddities that you might or might not take to.
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And there will undoubtedly be additional discourse on whether the TV version is worthy of its original author.
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This is one of those series that is bound to provoke conversation about whether or not it works as a concept and makes the leap effectively from the page to the screen (lots of people thought it would never happen). Arnold, Standup Comedian and Creator of Nickelodeon's 'That Girl Lay Lay', Dies at 54
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