Dead Boy Detectives review: Convoluted ghost show doesn’t have much chance of an afterlife
The IndependentGet our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Press play on Dead Boy Detectives and you’ll probably be hit with an overwhelming sense of deja vu. That’d be Riverdale or the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, both of which also bear the hallmarks of Dead Boy Detectives’ executive producer Greg Berlanti. Naturally, his best friend and fellow sleuth Charles is Edwin’s polar opposite in almost every possible way: he’s an easy-going Nineties boy with an earring and a “make it up as you go along” approach. George Rexstrew as Edwin, Jayden Revri as Charles and Kassius Nelson as Crystal in ‘Dead Boy Detectives’ There are a lot of head-spinning quick cuts as the boys hop from location to location – they can travel through mirrors because they’re ghosts, we learn in snatches of expository dialogue.
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