Netflix has cancelled Dead Boy Detectives after just one season, bringing the story of Edwin and Charles to a close. Case closed, whether you like it or not. Variety reports that Dead Boy Detectives has been cancelled by Netflix after just one season. Based on characters created by Neil Gaiman and Matt Wagner, Dead Boy … Read more
The titular private eyes are a pair of English schoolboys, Edwin Paine (George Rexstrew) and Charles Rowland (Jayden Revri), who become ghosts after dying tragically at the same boarding school 70 years apart. Edwin, a closeted gay boy essentially hate-crimed into the underworld, died in 1916; Charles, a Thatcher-era British punk, shifted the mortal coil … Read more
Rather than re-adapt “The Maltese Falcon” or any of the smattering of short stories Hammett wrote featuring the character (as literary legacies go, Spade’s was surprisingly short), Frank and Fontana, with the help of executive producer Barry Levinson, create a wholly original tale of the legendary gumshoe. No longer in his prime, or in San … Read more