Andrea and I finished the first season of Dead Boy Detectives. I'm glad she came along for this journey because the season finale left me traumatized.
Dead Boy Detectives follows the ghosts of Charles Rowland and Edwin Payne, who decided not to enter the afterlife and instead stayed on Earth to investigate crimes involving the supernatural.
Edwin was killed in 1916 by his classmates in a prank/sacrifice ritual that actually summoned a demon who took Edwin to Hell.
Edwin eventually escaped from Hell and befriended Charles who died in 1989 while intervening to stop a group of bullies from attacking a Pakistani student.
Charles and Edwin have a human partner in Crystal Palace, a young woman with psychic powers that the boys saved from a demon named David*. Crystal can see ghosts. She is also missing her memories.
*Yes, I am so proud to have a demon named after me.
Also joining this trio is Niko Sasaki, a young girl and anime fan who lives across the hall from Crystal. After her own near-death experience, Niko can also see ghosts.
Not wanting to move on to the Afterlife, Charles and Edwin are intent on avoiding the Night Nurse who runs the Afterlife's Lost and Found Department looking for misplaced dead children.
As a result of magical shenanigans caused by Esther Finch, an immortal witch with a mad on at the Dead Boy Detectives, Edwin gets sucked back into Hell. Charles makes a deal with Night Nurse: if she will open a portal to Hell so Charles can go save Edwin, he agrees the two of them will go back with her to the Afterlife.
The visit to Hell is gruesome and horrifying but Charles is able to locate and retrieve Edwin. The promised trip to the Afterlife is postponed when Niko finds a loophole in the bureaucratic regulations Night Nurse most follow.
I like Niko. Nothing bad better happen to her.
So we get to the season finale and...
FUCK! Hey, writers! What did I just say?!?!
Crystal has learned she is a connected to a magical coven who transcend time and space. She also finds her parents who did not know she was missing.
Meanwhile Esther is up to shit with a plan to drain ghosts to maintain her immortality and goes after the Dead Boys when Niko...
Poor Niko.
I HATE THIS SHOW!!!!
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Yes, Dead Boy Detectives is a brilliant TV show with great writing and acting and production values and...
But....
NIKO?!?! NOOOOOOO!!!!!!
I HATE THIS SHOW!!!!
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No, I don't know if there will be a 2nd season.
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There better be! This is a wonderful TV series and there is SO much to be answered for.
...
I HATE THIS SHOW!!!!
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And that is that for this week's touchbase.
Until next time, remember to be good to one another and try to keep it down in there, would ya? I'm trying to watch TV over here.
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