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Honestly a bit surprised that there's apparently no thread on this already.

Simon Frost and Nick Pegg reunite for a paranormal comedy drama on Amazon Prime Video.

Just watched the final episode of the series, and while the absence of Edgar Wright is apparent in that it lacks a little of the pixie dust that the projects all three working together seem to have, World's End aside maybe, I found it decently entertaining, and at 8 X 30 min episodes, doesn't require a huge investment of time to watch.

Started the thread as much to perhaps make others aware in light of what seems to have been a pretty low key launch as much as to prompt discussion.

Which of the Cornetto Trilogy is the series most like? (I only enjoyed Hot Fuzz.). Or is it more like Spaced?

I'd say it's its own thing while the DNA is still pretty visible.

There's not enough of that surreal edge to really compare it to Spaced, it's played a lot straighter with far fewer in jokes and references, but then the basic premise lends itself to some almost farcical scenes which are amusing without any real jokes.

It's a peculiar beast, X Files is cited as an inspiration, and I can see that, except that any pretence over whether the paranormal is real or not in-universe is resolved very swiftly, which completely abandons one of the fundamental tensions of that show.

I'd say if you're not a fan of their work, it won't convert you, if you are it's 4 hours or so of solid work, but it's different enough from their other stuff to be worth 30 minutes of the first episode to find out if you're not sure.

I watched it, it was Ok. the writing felt off, it felt very british in its style though.
Story made no sense though.

Sorry dude, the story was extraordinarily elementary. I mean, aside from its fundamentally daft premise, the actual narrative wasn't complicated at all. Bad guy wants to do bad thing, good guys, including just the right mix of special skills and abilities, find out about bad thing and stop it in nick of time.

It's not Inception.

Started watching this last night. It's good (not great though) so far but the telegraphing is definitely present as noted above. It's markedly less comedic than the trailer implies though as I think all but one joke in the first three episodes (the bunny filter video gag) were in the trailer.

I binged it this weekend, I really enjoyed the show. good mix of creepy and humour.

EDIT: And I'm now wondering if I'm remembering something totally different cause some of the other comments here don't line up with what I'm thinking about XD

Yeah, that's not what happened. The baddie is trying to do something illegal, certainly, but it's also legitimately supernatural in its purpose and there isn't a single fake haunting other than the hotel that is marketing itself as haunted, that turns out is totally haunted for real, near the start.

 Azreal13 wrote:
Yeah, that's not what happened. The baddie is trying to do something illegal, certainly, but it's also legitimately supernatural in its purpose and there isn't a single fake haunting other than the hotel that is marketing itself as haunted, that turns out is totally haunted for real, near the start.

Yeah I think I'm mixing this up with something else I saw on APV.

That you're doing that at all is probably a very succinct way of summing up the flaw with the show, perfectly solid but unlikely to make any sort of deep impression long term!