Think the title of BBC Americas new comedy-drama-crime-fantasy showDirk Gentlys Holistic Detective Agencyis long and insane-sounding?
Thats nothing compared to the length and unhingedness of the shows roll call of characters.
They could all of them be in their own TV show andthenthey interconnect.
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ET on BBC America.
Hessortof psychic but not.
His powers dont really help him.
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Hes no good at interpreting any of these messages that he receives.
Hes trying to use these so-called powers for good, but keeps on getting himself in a complete state.
So, he needs people around him.
Its why he needs a detective agency.
For me, hes the antithesis of Sherlock.
Sherlock is all intellect, and brain, and has his mind palace.
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And Dirks got his emotional neuroses cottage.
MAX LANDIS:He has heart, and hunches, and nothing else.
TODD BROTZMAN (Elijah Wood), DIRKS RELUCTANT SIDEKICK
BARNETT:Ooh, we love Todd!
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LANDIS:Hes an allergic reaction to Watson.
AMANDA BROTZMAN (Hannah Marks), TODDS SISTER
LANDIS:Amandas two things.
Intheory, shes the woman in peril.
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Shes this sickly, diminutive figure.
She has her own thing!
And she needs it.
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Because shes a wild, out-there, intense girl who has a wild, out-there, intense time.
Theyre not plot devices.
Theyre not maidens to be rescued.
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Theyre in danger likeanyof the characters are in danger.
FARAH BLACK (Jade Eshete), SECURITY OFFICER
LANDIS:Shes theactionlead.
Shes physically dominant, shes imposing, shes extremely weird, and neurotic.
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BART CURLISH (Fiona Dourif), HOLISTIC ASSASSIN
BARNETT:BartineCurlish is her full name.
Shes self-descrIbed as a holistic assassin.
So, she is led in the universe to kill whoever shes meant to kill next.
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As she says, shes never killed the wrong person, but she has killed alotof people.
Her and Dirk are kind of two sides of the same coin.
In the pilot shes like, I have to kill Dirk Gently!
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You have that from the very beginning.
LANDIS:Shes the White Walkers.
Shes relentlessly heading towards Dirk.
Like Dirk, Bart is keyed into something.
His life gets turned upside down when he meets Bart.
LANDIS:Estevez and Zimmerfield are detectives.
They start out as reasonably straight-laced, missing persons detectives, chasing down a relatively straight-laced case.
And with no middle ground.
And often a combination of all three.
Its rough to be on this show when youre not Dirk Gently.
I say veteran because he still has the scars.
seems as if Riggins is severely underfunded, as the only person he could get was Friedkin.
But he also doesnt seem to have a very tight control over Friedkin.
OF VAMPIRES (!!!)
BARNETT:You take that!
LANDIS:Well, the less said the better.
Anything you say about the Rowdy 3 is ultimately kind of a spoiler.
Uh, the Rowdy 3 are four distinct personality types who function as one organism, to clearly dosomething.
[Laughs] And they have been living that way for a very long time.
you could see a trailer forDirk Gentlys Holistic Detective Agencybelow.
