I was excited to hear about Truth Seekers as I love Simon Pegg and Nick Frost together (The Cornetto Trilogy movies, Paul), and hearing this was like the X-files but with comedy. The first season turns out to be not so much the case.
It stars Nick Frost as Gus Roberts, an uber techie helping to roll out Smyle's 6g access. Simon Pegg plays his boss, Dave. Dave assigns new guy Elton John (Samson Kayo) as an assistant, whigh Gus is not happy about. Gus also is a paranormal investigator and calls himself a "Truth Seeker", though his investigations are unconvincing at best. All that changes when Elton comes aboard.
The first season contains 8 episodes which form a long arc consisting of ghosts, soul transfer, a necromicon of sorts, and people who aren't what they seem.
The horror is fairly spot on, based on what they're going for. It's not meant to be full on horror, but it is creepy enough, and there are some mild jump scares that do what you'd expect. The humor itself has been somewhat disappointing. The story does get more interesting as the episodes continue, so you do get drawn in after a few.
All in all, at least for the first season, it's been a fun ride, if not a bit flawed. The humor misses a bit too much, but there's enough in the story line that I'm interested to see how things go. These shows do take a while to find themselves, so I can see season two being better as they keep the things that work and carve out the things that done. Nick Frost and Samson Kayo play well off each other. The episodes are half an hour long so it's quick -- perhaps rushed at times, but mostly just well paced.
I await the second season with excitement, but a differnt type of excitement from what I had when I first heard about this show.
7/10 - interesting enough to overcome some of its flaws.
It stars Nick Frost as Gus Roberts, an uber techie helping to roll out Smyle's 6g access. Simon Pegg plays his boss, Dave. Dave assigns new guy Elton John (Samson Kayo) as an assistant, whigh Gus is not happy about. Gus also is a paranormal investigator and calls himself a "Truth Seeker", though his investigations are unconvincing at best. All that changes when Elton comes aboard.
The first season contains 8 episodes which form a long arc consisting of ghosts, soul transfer, a necromicon of sorts, and people who aren't what they seem.
The horror is fairly spot on, based on what they're going for. It's not meant to be full on horror, but it is creepy enough, and there are some mild jump scares that do what you'd expect. The humor itself has been somewhat disappointing. The story does get more interesting as the episodes continue, so you do get drawn in after a few.
All in all, at least for the first season, it's been a fun ride, if not a bit flawed. The humor misses a bit too much, but there's enough in the story line that I'm interested to see how things go. These shows do take a while to find themselves, so I can see season two being better as they keep the things that work and carve out the things that done. Nick Frost and Samson Kayo play well off each other. The episodes are half an hour long so it's quick -- perhaps rushed at times, but mostly just well paced.
I await the second season with excitement, but a differnt type of excitement from what I had when I first heard about this show.
7/10 - interesting enough to overcome some of its flaws.