It would take more care than I’m willing to devote to get to the bottom of why, exactly, I had no patience for this series somewhat random shows that work mainly in bits and pieces are often catnip to me, and I’m not averse to waiting a long time for a concept to gel, as long as the characters are compelling and the individual incidents seem to have purpose and shape and don’t just feel cooked-up and glommed together. Every five minutes or so there’s an Abbott and Costello–style exchange between one of the buddy pairings (there’s always a reasonable one and a stupid or “crazy” one). Everything is chaos, but it’s synchronized.” There are CIA assassins (led by ace character actor Miguel Sandoval) who kill a couple of people a floor above Dirk’s apartment, a terrified woman tied to a bed, and a landlord who bashes late tenants’ cars to pieces. A woman who calls herself Curlish (Fiona Dourif) and claims to be a “Holistic Assassin” appears seemingly out of nowhere, while a tech guy named Ken (Mpho Koaho) is doing some kind of repair work at a processing facility, and she proceeds to kill a lot of people while explaining that she never knows who she’s about to kill or why, but is certain it’s always the right person later, she adds, “Things, they double up, they parallel. The show is filled with buddy pairings, and this is entirely intentional there’s even dialogue pointing it out in case we miss it. Estevez and Brown try to get to the bottom of things on their end, while Todd and Dirk try it their way unfortunately for Todd and Dirk, their way invariably leads to unannounced visits to unfamiliar spaces, which leads to screaming confrontations with angry strangers, some of whom are armed. The victim is a millionaire named Patrick Spring, his daughter has been kidnapped, and no one has any idea why, or what it has to do with the bizarre hotel attack. The investigation falls to two missing persons detectives, Estevez (Neil Brown Jr.) and Brown (Richard Schiff), who have a pleasing comic chemistry (Estevez intimidates a suspect by intoning “eyebrows,” whereupon Brown raises his eyebrows disapprovingly) but seem as mystified by what’s going on as we do. The tale kicks off with a gruesome murder scene in Todd’s hotel, apparently caused by an enormous carnivore that had no way of entering the suite, but did. There’s a lot going on in the first few episodes of Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, but at no point did I feel that anything was actually happening, in a “Why should I watch this show?” sense.
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He tells Todd that he’s less interested in the sorts of procedural details that typically obsess TV detectives than in “the fundamental interconnectness of all things.” “You’re a detective who doesn’t find clues,” Todd says, his exasperation mirroring my own. You’re supposed to sort of feel your way through it all, go with the flow at least that’s how the title character (Samuel Barnett) describes his investigation into a bloody cosmic disturbance that opens this BBC America series, by way of enticing a bellhop named Todd (Elijah Wood) to become his sidekick. Although I haven’t read the two Douglas Adams novels that it’s based on, I’ve been assured by Adams devotees that you’re not supposed to know what’s going on - that knowing what’s happening is not the point of the exercise. Dirk Gently fans will likely hope for a third season pickup from Netflix (or perhaps somebody else), given that Netflix had been handling the international release for the series.I have no idea what’s going on in Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency. The series had just finished its second season. Thanks also to the passionate fans who embraced this fantastically novel world. It was a privilege to work with this talented and passionate group of writers, producers and actors on these two seasons of Dirk. We are beyond proud of this brilliant original series and so appreciative of the outstanding team behind it including Max Landis, Samuel Barnett, Elijah Wood, and many many others. Well-liked by critics (including those at Paste), Dirk Gently still received praise from BBC America despite the cancellation:
The series, based on the novel of the same name by A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy author Douglas Adams, was headlined by Elijah Wood and Samuel Barnett, and was created by Max Landis. Deadline reports that Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency has been canceled by BBC America, and will not see a third season.
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