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The series centers on the titular holistic detective and his reluctant sidekick Todd Brotzmanas they investigate cases involving the supernatural. The world of Dirk Gently is one of inapparent interconnectedness, where everything means something, even nothing.
22 December 1953, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
August 4, 1976 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
25 February 1973, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
8 January 1983, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
31 May 1982, Tripoli, Lebanon
8 November 1988, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
13 April 1993, Santa Monica, California, USA
30 October 1981, Woodstock, New York, USA
6 May 1970, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
25 January 1974, West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
October 27, 2016
The problem here is the writing, which consistently feels belabored and overtly complicated while the show itself remains largely just about Dirk and Todd and their adventures.October 24, 2016
Dirk Gently is gorgeous, ambitious, pre-meditated chaos, a firework shot into a crowded room, or a child drawing with lipstick on the good wallpaper, grounded only by subtle performances by Elijah Wood, and Samuel Barnett as the titular detective.December 15, 2016
As a freewheeling comedy-thriller, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is agreeably daft entertainment even if it doesn't crib heavily from Douglas Adams' novels, serving as an incredibly loose adaptation.December 12, 2016
It's a compulsively watchable show, but its breathless, urgent tone brings it closer to E4's Misfits than to anything Adams wrote.December 06, 2016
Quirky sci-fi comedy is fun but can be violent.October 24, 2016
There's something undoubtedly appealing about a show with presumably an overarching narrative that also functions as a giant puzzle box.October 26, 2016
They delivered fantastically, and maybe even surprised a few people.October 24, 2016
It's dark and funny and appalling and sad and silly, and very much its own thing.November 04, 2016
It amounts to a scattershot narrative that only really works because of creator/writer Max Landis's wit. Beneath all the details is a cutting humor that, in a rare move, is actually humorous.