Dirk Gently???

So I'm the only one unironically still watching it, aren't I?

never started

it any good? notfrodo looks like a fag

It's 100% retarded but I find it hilarious. It's amazing if you can deal with sci-fi bullshit and love an actual mystery show.

Second season started a few weeks back, but again, I'm pretty sure I'm the only one still watching.

I think you need to bear 2 or 3 episodes to see if it's really your taste. Then you either hate the quirkiness or love the mysterious and potentially rewarding plot at the end.

Also this, it takes several episodes to really get going. Luckily the whole first season is on Hulu. Season 2 will probably show up when it finishes airing in several weeks.

This is unironically my favourite tv show. Every character is relatable as fuck, and i was already a fan of the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, so it was always going to fit with my sense of humour.

You cant take this show seriously though, its stupid as fuck in other words fucking kino

I recently watched all of season 1 and I've been watching the new episodes.
First season was ok, but they didn't need an entire season for that mystery. It got boring after a while and I just wanted them to wrap it up. I'd prefer if they did a few mystery arcs per season. The show also leans on the "everything is connected" bs to get away with dumb writing.
>Crazy weird stuff happens for many episodes to the point that you stop caring
>It's finally explained
>Rest of the season is Dirk and Tom trying to save the fairy tale land/save the girl
And the writing and overall vibe of the show is VERY max Landis.

>The show also leans on the "everything is connected" bs to get away with dumb writing.
I'm afraid that just comes with the source material. Thered be no point making a dirk gently series without everything being connected. Its the basic premise of the novels

novel dirk = best dirk

An example would be the cliche where it cuts between two conversations happening simultaneously and they are saying the exact same lines. You can make a show where everything ties together without having dumb stuff like that. They do that cliche like 5 times in season 1.

I'm still watching it, but I'm a Brit living in America so I'm legally required to put on BBC America at 6 Bong every night.
Also the pink hair dude's explanation at the end of the last episode was genuinely hilarious, they have had to put some serious thought into the plot to come up with such a convoluted monologue.

desu I quite like that. It sets up the parallels quite nicely. Perhaps that's just something that is a problem for you but not so much for me. It's good that people have different tastes though.

For instance, for me, Star Trek is a combination of everything that makes a TV show shit, in every version of Star Trek that I've seen. And yet, I am continually surprised to learn that people actually like it. On the other hand my favourite work of fiction is the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but I've been told it's super dumb and absurd (which it is, but that's part of what makes it so good imho)

The showrunner, Max Landis recently tweeted that four of the main characters of this season haven't even been introduced yet, and said a while ago that he is upping the ante in Season 2. This season is gonna be weird as fuck, for better or for worse.

>wow everything is soooo ZANY !

yes i watch the show

I AM the only one here that saw the other dirk series , it was good

I don't like the other Dirk Series as much. It wasn't bad or anything, but I read 'The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul' before the first one, and Long Dark Teatime is much crazier and zanier in general. And that's the version of Dirk Gently I like. When I read the first novel, I found it very tame and dry by comparison, and that's how I feel about the first Dirk series.

What I like is putting characters in absurd/stupid situations and watching them react. The british series did that to an extent, but I was waiting for Thor to turn up, or for the murderer to be a large furry creature with glowing green eyes and a scythe. To me, the American series is better.
Having said that, the american series is obviously not so much an adaptation of the novels, as it is just sort of loosely inspired by the novels. But I think it captured the spirit of the novels, even if it didn't have the same characters, or plot, or anything apart from the same premise(ish)

The best adaptation of the books is the radio series with Harry Enfield as Dirk, well worth a listen.

Someone told me it was basically just a recreation of the novels, so I never bothered with it, since I've already read the novels. Is there any new content?

It's the same story with a lot of the same dialogue (and descriptive comedy turned into dialogue), but the manner which it's presented is very different from the novels and it's reordered quite a bit to make it more like a mystery. Unless you read the books in the last week, I'd say you'll find it different enough that you won't be bored by it, and I think it's a very impressive production; great voice acting (also featuring Pippin from LotR as MacDuff), a decent soundtrack and sound effects. Real high-class stuff.

Bart a best.

>Do you know Ken?

Love not knowing what the fuck to expect next.

you would like the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy novels then, by the same author as the dirk gently novels.

how's series 2 going? i really liked series 1

I love it

this is my favorite shot of the whole show.

this seasons been shit, but I'm watching it. I feel I need to justify my hatred of max landis.

desu I kinda lost my interest in season 2 due to the lack of Bart in the first few episodes.