Given that The Sandman by Neil Gaiman is a narrative about stories, it makes sense that some of the characters would be intriguing to other writers to explore and utilize. Years, before a Netflix series adapted The Sandman, the cult popularity of an entire Lucifer TV series, was attributed to Sandman spinoff comics starring Death, the sister of Dream, and the bizarre residents of the Dreaming, in addition to Lucifer himself.
Dead Boy Detectives on Netflix is taking a similar route. The colorful afterlives of Charles Rowland and Edwin Paine have captivated comic book authors ever since they first appeared in The Sandman. Though these spectral detectives may not be the most well-known Sandman figures, who could resist the pitch that “He’s a 70-year-old ghost boy, and he’s a modern ghost boy”? They unravel enigmas around ghosts! The solution is not Netflix.
Dead Boy Detectives
Here’s how Netflix’s growing Sandman universe connects with Dead Boy Detectives, while season 2 of The Sandman is presently in development.
Charles Rowland and Edwin Paine, two ghost boys who perished in the same terrible British boarding school 70 years apart, are the Dead Boy Detectives. Charles and Edwin formed a group and decided not to go to their afterlives after Charles passed away, as reported in a 1991 edition of The Sandman.
In order to pass their eternal ghostly existence, they open the Dead Boy Detective Agency, where they solve mysteries for other ghosts and any mortals who happen to see them. They also try their hardest to avoid receiving the notice of the Death of the Endless, which is, to be honest, very kindly and not at all scary, so that she won’t make them move on.
The Verdict
There are other television shows like “Ghost Whisperer,” “Deadbeat,” “Dead Like Me,” my favorite “Ghost Girls,” and last year’s fantastic “School Spirits,” in which a high school student sets out to solve her own murder, where mortal or immortal agents assist troubled spirits to finish unfinished business and move on into the light or whatever. And of course, Halloween candy is just as prevalent as putting young kids in otherworldly situations—a circumstance that makes for particularly good humor.
Even so, everything about it is really beautifully done; it’s brilliantly written, well cast, delicately performed, and wonderfully visualized. It’s comical most of the time, but it may also be unsettling at times. Animation is present. Periodically, you may expect a twisted turn because you’ve been practicing this kind of turn for years. However, a series doesn’t have to be unique to feel new. There are ample surprises.
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