Dead Boys Detective Agency

I went into this not expecting much. It struck me as the kind of thing that might be a bit too quirky for me (sounds odd, I know, but I do come across it sometimes). The first few eps were very much fitting that impression. The dandelion sprites are just not pressing my buttons.

The whole thing is so utterly catered to fanfic tastes though, with the characters and the relationships. If someone took a crack!fic, filed off the serial numbers and made it an original work but did it well for once, you'd have the Dead Boys Detective Agency.

And damn, episode seven is a killer. The meeting between Edwin and Simon. The flashback to when Charles was dying. Edwin's statement on the stairs and Charles' perfect response.

I definitely liked it by the end, I just didn't love it. I could wish that Esther was less cartoonishly evil, among other things. Imagine how effective she could have been if she'd been sinister and smooth and utterly superficially convincing? The same with the undead bureaucrats. I think I just prefer my fandoms with a little more subtlety.

Hope it gets renewed, will watch more, not going to make me actively fannish.