DC Television Dead Boy Detectives Series on Netflix

[squeekness]

That's a wrap, filming is done.

Dead Boy Detectives Wraps Season 1 With Haunting BTS Photos

Loved Sandman. I'll give this a watch.

 

[signalman]

Neil Gaiman says The Dead Boy Detective share the same universe as the SANDMAN series.

Neil Gaiman Confirms Dead Boy Detectives Takes Place in The Sandman's Universe

 

[Pennywise]

 

[Filmfreak]

So WBD sold this to Netflix but refused to try and sell Wile E. Coyote to anyone.

 

[Pennywise]

 

[Babillygunn]

How did I not know about this???

I LOVED Ed Brubaker’s run of Dead Boy Detectives. Such an incredibly fun comic.

 

[Sawyer]

Ooh…

 

[Cap2024]

Trailer is out. Looks great and thankfully they didn’t straightwash it (I was worried they might).

 

[Cap2024]

Ghosts, action, and hot guys.

Very entertaining and hope there’s another season. Perhaps crossover with Sandman.

 

[Babillygunn]

thankfully they didn’t straightwash it

I have only read their first appearance in Gaiman’s Sandman and then I read the Brubaker run, but I don’t remember them as being anything other than best friends in the comics. Am I forgetting something?

Just finished the first episode and while I am enjoying it, I am on the fence on the decision to age the characters up. There was a sort of fun innocence to having them being 13 year olds working out of a tree house. It went well with the 1980’s charm of the comics.

Perhaps crossover with Sandman

Death was in the first episode. (That’s the only one I’ve seen so far.)

 

[Cap2024]

I have only read their first appearance in Gaiman’s Sandman and then I read the Brubaker run, but I don’t remember them as being anything other than best friends in the comics. Am I forgetting something?

Just finished the first episode and while I am enjoying it, I am on the fence on the decision to age the characters up. There was a sort of fun innocence to having them being 13 year olds working out of a tree house. It went well with the 1980’s charm of the comics.


Death was in the first episode. (That’s the only one I’ve seen so far.)

Edwin apparently comes out in the final comic.

Spoiler

His coming out in the show is inspired by how it was done in the comic.

For clarity, the show takes place in the same universe as the Sandman Netflix show. Sandman himself doesn’t appear. That said, since they’re in the same universe- no idea what a second season might bring on that front.

 

[Babillygunn]

Edwin apparently comes out in the final comic.

I didn’t know that. Thanks.

 

[blueharvest]

'Dead Boy Detectives' May Be Dead on Arrival After Poor Start in Netflix Top 10s

Young adult fantasy shows at Netflix just can't catch a break...

www.whats-on-netflix.com

 

[Primal Slayer]

'Dead Boy Detectives' May Be Dead on Arrival After Poor Start in Netflix Top 10s

Young adult fantasy shows at Netflix just can't catch a break...

www.whats-on-netflix.com

I'm not surprised. It didnt get that much promo.

While I am enjoying it and enjoy the cast....there isnt enough emphasis on Charles/Edwin as a dynamic duo.

 

[squeekness]

'Dead Boy Detectives' May Be Dead on Arrival After Poor Start in Netflix Top 10s

Young adult fantasy shows at Netflix just can't catch a break...

www.whats-on-netflix.com

And here I thought this was fairly new. Just started it and it seems decent enough.

 

[Isub_Zero]

Just finished it. I'm not sure it's was as good as "Sandman", but i enjoyed it overall, though the first 3 episodes wasn't great. I wasn't sure i want to keep up with it, but after the rough start it got much better.

 

[Pennywise]

 

[Zarex]

I'm not surprised. I thought the show was decent, but I didn't like swapping out the London setting for the Pacific Northwest. I am assuming that was for budgetary purposes. And having an administrative office apparently managing the afterlife alongside the personification of Death didn't make much sense to me. That old timey metaphysical office setting has been already been done in the Umbrella Academy and Loki and the show could have done without it.

But as Babillygunn gun posted earlier having the fellas be grown men instead of actual dead boys was the biggest downgrade imo from the source material. I get that they did it in order not to have ghost children aging during multiple seasons, but the creators obviously don't have to worry about that now.

 

[Spider-Fan83]

that's a shame, I was enjoying season one

 

[OrbOfConfusion]

This is part of the same world as Sandman, right? Maybe the characters can appear there at some point?

 

[Mani-Man]

Really sucks, i liked the season a lot.
The potential was there.
I really have to start not getting attached to any new show too much that comes from Netflix.
The M.O. is clear there and its a waste of energy to get too deep into any new show, knowing Netflix cancels it after 1 season or ends it after just 4-5 short seasons.