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Being in love with your friends is one of the most prevalent Lgbtq+ experiences out there. Whether it’s a familial type of love, a situationship or simply having someone that’s “your person,” Queer friendship tends to blur the lines of a stereotypical friendship. It’s also a nuance often left out of media — stories hire tropes, and tropes create careful demarcations in character dynamics.
“Dead Boy Detectives” is a beautifully edited, spectacularly acted and wonderfully whimsical reveal that has captured my heart and mind for the last few weeks. The titular defunct boys, Edwin Payne (George Rexstrew, “Findhorn Case 31.08.18”) and Charles Rowland (Jayden Revri, “The Lodge”), are two ghosts who find each other post-mortem and spend their afterlives solving mysteries to help other ghosts pass on into the afterlife. After being stranded in a seaside town in Washington articulate, the boys’ agency sees living recruits in the build of psychic Crystal Palace (Kassius Nelson, “Out of Body”) and a seemingly normal girl named Niko Sasaki (Yuyu Kitamura, “Invited in”), who was brought into the team after they draw two sprites out of her body. As they serve to find a way back abode to London, the gro
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I might not be as obsessed with true crime as the rest of the world but you know what I do love—completely fictional and wildly irrational deaths organism solved by supernatural hotties with a big ole chunk of queerness.
Instead of this just entity a figment of my very vivid imagination, it’s one of the newest series from the crew over at Netflix called Dead Boy Detectives. Originally a comic in the 1DC Cosmos (where my absolute fav psycho Pisces Miss Harleen Quinzel hails from) it’s now being turned into a live-action series complete with an 8-episode premiere season.
The Dead Boy Detectives Agency is comprised of teens Edwin Paine and Charles Rowland who are indeed quite dead and decided to become detectives as they had much hour on their hands. They have several adventures on their own before entity joined by Crystal Palace who is certainly neither dead nor a young man. Just how did they die and become detectives? Now there’s a story!
Aside from being dead, boys, and detectives the two lads have other commonalties: they were both students at St Hilarion’s Institution For Boys which was founded as a boarding school open to the sons of British Army officers. They were also both bullied by the same trio of students, Barrow, Cheeseman, and Skinner, which is initially a bit confounding since Edwin died in 1914 and Charles quite recently in comparison. The exact year of his death is better left vague because of time wimeyness in comics. These same bullies were able to terrorize both Edwin and Charles simply because they too died young in the Great War (World War I) and the recently deceased gits’ souls made their way out of Hell, after the nether realm was emptied of its captives thanks to events detailed in the A Season of Mists story in
Review: ‘Dead Boy Detectives’ sees ghosts being gay and solving crime
From the mystical world of “The Sandman” comes a new Netflix series, “Dead Boy Detectives.”
A comedic, horror, mystery series, “Dead Male child Detectives” follows Edwin and Charles, played by George Rexstrew and Jayden Revri respectively. They are teenage ghosts who dedicate their time to solving supernatural mysteries, joined by a psychic named Crystal, played by Kassius Nelson.
Both “Sandman” and “Dead Boy Detectives” are based on the DC comics created by acclaimed fantasy writer Neil Gaiman, known for books such as “Good Omens” and “American Gods” and “The Sandman” comics. Gaiman is an executive producer on both shows.
Though it is set in the same universe as “Sandman,” it is not necessary to view that first. They are only connected via one character cameo and have drastically different tones. Whereas “Sandman” was a dreamy drama, “Dead Boy Detectives” is humorous and at times melodramatic and campy.
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The show’s combination of horror and comedy will create it a great Halloween observe. Committed to being both whacky and gruesome, often at the same time.
The show's plot is intriguing. The mysteries are