Movie:
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Year:
2016
Genre:
Comedy,
Sci-Fi, Action, Mystery,
What it was about (in > 50 words)
Anything special/memorable?
Some
choice words to describe the series: Weird, Bizarre, Odd, Errr, Quirky,
Unusual, Strange, Rubbish, What The...?! 
The
series starts with the focus on Todd Brotzman (Elijah Wood) & an
extremely violent murder scene in a hotel room where the occupants seem to be
murdered by a (get ready for this) ...SHARK?!!. However, all the authorities
find at the crime scene is a cat!??
And you'd think that Todd would be the titular star of the show, but NO.
Dirk Gently (Samuel Barnett) is much more peculiar and I don't know about
you, his peculiarity is quite the adorable sort, perhaps bordering on annoying,
but still loveable. 
Dirk describes himself to be a detective who solves cases by "following
fate" or where the universe leads him. His mantra being "everything
in the universe is interconnected". 
Visually, Dirk Gently is very different from the comic book version
(the comic version looks even weirder than the TV version).
The
series starts with the focus on Todd Brotzman (Elijah Wood) & an
extremely violent murder scene in a hotel room where the occupants seem to be
murdered by a (get ready for this) ...SHARK?!!. However, all the authorities
find at the crime scene is a cat!??
And you'd think that Todd would be the titular star of the show, but NO.
Dirk Gently (Samuel Barnett) is much more peculiar and I don't know about
you, his peculiarity is quite the adorable sort, perhaps bordering on annoying,
but still loveable. 
Dirk describes himself to be a detective who solves cases by "following
fate" or where the universe leads him. His mantra being "everything
in the universe is interconnected". 
Visually, Dirk Gently is very different from the comic book version
(the comic version looks even weirder than the TV version).
Waste/worth the time?
Will
I want to watch this series again? Yes (maybe not so soon but definitely yes.) 
The
series has a good mix of action, a healthy dose of comedy, mystery, time-travel
hijinks, vampires (not the typical blood sucking variety, but The Rowdy 3 Martin, Vogel, Gripps and Cross, are vampires that feed
on emotion and mind energy) & X-File type government conspiracy that
involves agencies that try to run their agendas against directives of another's
(eg: CIA, FBI, Local Police, etc). Dirk was part of a government agency that studied
individuals with 'special' abilities. 
Hence, the cat at the crime scene was weaponised with the spirit of a
shark whose attack can be devastating, and the dog was Lydia Spring, the
daughter of the multi-billionaire Patrick Spring (who we learn later on was the
time traveler Zackariah Webb) who was killed in the opening of the series. The
bad guys wanted to get their hands on what they refer to as "the
Machine" (which was hidden by Patrick Spring/Zackariah Webb before he died)
so that they could live forever, by transferring their spirits into younger
host bodies. 
While all of this was happening, more madness was added to the mix in the
form of the invulnerable Bart Curlish (Fiona Dourif) - a "holistic" assassin who feels
that the universe leads her to people she has to kill. What is her connection
to Dirk? Why did she want to kill Dirk?
This is to me yet another winner from Netflix's stable altho' the 8 episodes were produced in collaboration with BBC America.
The
series has a good mix of action, a healthy dose of comedy, mystery, time-travel
hijinks, vampires (not the typical blood sucking variety, but The Rowdy 3 
Hence, the cat at the crime scene was weaponised with the spirit of a
shark whose attack can be devastating, and the dog was Lydia Spring, the
daughter of the multi-billionaire Patrick Spring (who we learn later on was the
time traveler Zackariah Webb) who was killed in the opening of the series. The
bad guys wanted to get their hands on what they refer to as "the
Machine" (which was hidden by Patrick Spring/Zackariah Webb before he died)
so that they could live forever, by transferring their spirits into younger
host bodies. 
While all of this was happening, more madness was added to the mix in the
form of the invulnerable Bart Curlish (Fiona Dourif) - a "holistic" assassin who feels
that the universe leads her to people she has to kill. What is her connection
to Dirk? Why did she want to kill Dirk?
This is to me yet another winner from Netflix's stable altho' the 8 episodes were produced in collaboration with BBC America.
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