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Dead Boy Detectives
May. 1st, 2024 07:33 amDo you like ghost stories? Queer stories? Queer ghost stories? Please watch Dead Boy Detectives on Netflix. It just came out and I freakin' LOVE IT. As I have mentioned in the past, I am not at all familiar with the source material (being side characters for one Sandman issue that then generated a fair bit of their own stories, when I am only vaguely familiar with Sandman to start with), but it looked interesting even though I was still mad about the cancellation of both Shadow and Bone and Lockwood & Co. It came out last Thursday, and on Wednesday there was a premiere with a cast panel and the first episode. I loved it right away but I did not have a chance to watch it until after I got home on Sunday, when I binged 5 eps that night and the final 3 on Monday morning. And now I'm watching it again.
Y'all, it's so good. George Rexstrew is *perfect* as a horribly repressed gay boy in Edwardian England who was sent to Hell bc of a clerical error, coming to terms with the fact that he is in love with his best friend Charles (Jayden Revri, who is also perfect as an 80s alt kid). Charles is pretty unphased by this development and they go about solving ghost crimes. There's a Cat King who I am OBSESSED WITH. The antagonist is fabulous. They meet a girl who can't remember her past because she was possessed by a demon and shenanigans ensue. The girl lives above a butcher shop, which is owned by a goth lesbian, and the girl across the hall is just the cutest girl in love with love. None of the queer stories are treated with disdain and they are all up front with no hiding. It's just wonderful!
(Someone did ask if this show was going to be queer, with the implication that they didn't want it to be, and Neil replied with something like "it's a queer show. it always was and it was always going to be and we didn't dumb it down." And quite frankly I didn't expect the show to be so up front about it. But it was, and I loved it. Edwin's sexuality was a core element of the storyline, but it wasn't the focus.)
Y'all, it's so good. George Rexstrew is *perfect* as a horribly repressed gay boy in Edwardian England who was sent to Hell bc of a clerical error, coming to terms with the fact that he is in love with his best friend Charles (Jayden Revri, who is also perfect as an 80s alt kid). Charles is pretty unphased by this development and they go about solving ghost crimes. There's a Cat King who I am OBSESSED WITH. The antagonist is fabulous. They meet a girl who can't remember her past because she was possessed by a demon and shenanigans ensue. The girl lives above a butcher shop, which is owned by a goth lesbian, and the girl across the hall is just the cutest girl in love with love. None of the queer stories are treated with disdain and they are all up front with no hiding. It's just wonderful!
(Someone did ask if this show was going to be queer, with the implication that they didn't want it to be, and Neil replied with something like "it's a queer show. it always was and it was always going to be and we didn't dumb it down." And quite frankly I didn't expect the show to be so up front about it. But it was, and I loved it. Edwin's sexuality was a core element of the storyline, but it wasn't the focus.)
