DEAD BOY DETECTIVES [Netflix]

Dead Boy Detectives is an 8-episode series on Netflix.  Introduced in the pages of  Neil Gaiman’s  The Sandman , a ghost boy from the 1910s becomes best friends with a ghost boy from the 1990s and together they decided to solve mysteries.



Dead Boy Detectives are the late Edwin (George Rexstrew) and Charles (Jayden Revri)–both murdered at an English boys school–who run a supernatural detective agency where they solve the mysteries of ghosts, demons, and other spooky creatures.



The ghost boys team up with the amnesiatic psychic Crystal (Kassius Nelson) after exorcizing a demon from her. They work together to track down a missing child. Then the trio find themselves trapped in a small Pacific Northwest town bursting with supernatural mysteries.



From there, Edwin, Charles, and Crystal encounter a menagerie of strange beings. There’s a Cat King, an immortal witch, the nasty Dandelion Sprites, and an eerie goth lady running a creepy butcher shop. While solving mysteries, Edwin and Charles must also evade the Night Nurse (Ruth Connell), the immortal tasked with rounding up the lost souls of dead children and making sure they’re all in their designated afterlives. And, of course, there’s Death to deal with too. I’m only four episodes in, but I can confidently pronounce this ghostly series a real winner! GRADE: Incomplete, but trending towards a B+