Since his turn as Frodo Baggins in the Lord of the Rings movies, Elijah Wood has made a career out of choosing the most off-beat and unexpected roles he can. The show contains all manner of nonsense and bizarre situations, including the previously mentioned group of psychic vampires… A mysterious kitten that contains the soul of a hammerhead shark… And a time traveling Steampunk assassin… Oh and there’s also a random corgi that follows Dirk around… Elijah Wood Is Fantastic Except, y’know, murdering instead of solving mysteries. Other subjects of the project include the Rowdy 3 (of which there are 4 members) a group of psychic vampires that feed on souls, but don’t do any actual harm to those they feed on (and in fact, seem to somehow tame Amanda’s visions) and a slovenly, unkempt but extremely sinister woman named Bart Curlish, something of flip side to Dirk, who is a “holistic assassin” guided by the same principles as Dirk himself. There is also a secret government agency known as “Project Blackwing” of which Dirk was a subject. Todd’s mental health is similarly questionable as he continually sees visions of himself sporting a black eye and wearing a fur coat wandering through the hotel. Todd spends all the money he makes as a bellhop on treatment for her. Todd has a sister, Amanda, cursed with an (apparently fake) affliction called “Pararibulitis”, which causes the sufferer to have violent, realistic hallucinations of self-immolation or drowning. Todd Brotzman, played by Wood, becomes a reluctant companion to Dirk and is a bellhop in a hotel where a murder happens that brings them together in the first place. His intuitions he claims “are rarely wrong but also rarely completely right.” Dirk Gently Is Bonkersĭirk Gently describes himself as a “holistic detective” who believes everything in the universe is interconnected and that he has the power to harness that interconnectivity, preferring to solve crimes through hunches instead of actively looking for clues. Evil, playing Tucker, and fan-favorite character K-2SO from a 2016 film you may have heard of called Rogue One. Alan Tudyk is a ridiculously entertaining and charismatic actor that always seems to find the funny as well as the pathos in whatever character he portrays and we’re pretty sure he’s going to be a fantastic addition to the season 2 cast of the show.īut what is Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency and why should you be watching it? Here are a few reasons. First capturing the hearts of fans everywhere with his portrayal of Hoban “Wash” Washburne on the show Firefly, Tudyk has gone on to star in or provide voice acting for other well-loved properties like Young Justice, where he portrayed Oliver Queen/Green Arrow, Tucker & Dale vs. Dirk Gently Season 2 Will Feature Alan Tudykīeloved character actor Alan Tudyk probably needs no introduction. Priest, described in this Hollywood Reporter article as “a ruthless, dangerous and violent bounty hunter”. The second season of the show will again star Samuel Barnett as the titular detective, Elijah Wood as his companion Todd Brotzman and, just announced yesterday, fan-favorite Alan Tudyk as Mr. In 2016, however, screenwriter Max Landis took one more stab at adapting the book for BBC America and this time it seems to have worked out much better, as it’s currently heading into a 10 episode second season, following its 8 episode first. The book has been adapted several times, as a BBC radio show, a comic book series as well as a 2010 TV series that was canceled after only 4 episodes. While not the immediate sensation that Hitchhiker’s proved to be, the two Dirk Gently novels (and an unfinished novel included in The Salmon Of Doubt, a book of essays published posthumously) still maintain a passionate and loyal fanbase. In 1987, Douglas Adams (of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxyfame) published the first Dirk Gently novel, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency.
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