#dirk gently 2010

[noakines]

[proinsiascassius]

targeting a very niche audience when i say this but Dirk Gently and Richard Macduff are like a Sherlock Holmes and John Watson parody (lovingly)

[akaryotic]

i feel ill about these losers

[androgymagnus]

They're all varying levels of babygirl, derogatory, and affectionate, but. they're all bastards and/or extremely unethical in some way, while also being, unfortunately, babygirl.

(I would like to clarify though that there is so much variance. Some of these are just "kind of a dick" while others are "does horribly deeply unethical things". Some of these are "okay so i love him what about it" while are others are "i would like to study him like a bug". Etc, and so on and so forth. So don't get offended if you're like "why is my blorbo next to THAT bastard". I know. I know.)

im not even attracted to/into in some way most if any of these. only a few of them are even my favorite character in that particular piece of media. but their deviant babygirl energy captivates me. someone make these fuckers cry but then hug them about it

[thecannibalroyal]

Dirk Gently and Richard Macduff are boyfriends 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

[haveyouseenthisseries-poll]

[dontbadgerme2233]

Theres something about The Producers (2005) that is so Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency (book). Max is Dirk. Richard, Leo.

Dirk conning elderly ladies such as how Max… persuades them.

Richard and Leo’s apprehension but concluding acceptance of circumstances.

The bizzarity of it all. I feel this most strongly in Der Gutentag Hop Clop… Idk how to explain how. Der Gutentag Hop Clop also gets me weirdly emotional when the pigeons start singing 😭 Ok, digressing, my bad.

Just the absurdly comedic sequence of perilous events… Or, perhaps, the perilous sequence of absurdly comedic events.

[trickibe]

ACK ADHD STOP OMG

[marchentraume]

Collecting some gender don’t mind me

[thedreadvampy]

What would you call the genre of 2010s-2020s TV shows which are:

stylistic, with cinematic transitions and colorful shots

kind of tonally YA adjacent but aimed at adults; snappy, irreverent, probably centering some amount of mystery or detective work

mildly goth/alternative aesthetic and tone

involve pursuit by some manner of Paranormal Agency with a 60s bureaucracy aesthetic, either time travel or something similar, and a range of superpowers

the/a villain is almost certainly a woman with piled up hair and a skirt suit who character design and affect wise is doing what Michelle Gomez did in Doctor Who. Separately, Michelle Gomez may or may not also be there.

have an ensemble cast of quirky, sarcastic and jaded characters, interacting with a rotating cast of similarly quirky side characters

often but not always a comic book adaptation; either way, involves a heightened reality which aims to be as 'comicsy' as possible while achieving emotional verisimilitude.

I'm reasonably certain this has to now count as a genre or at least a concrete aesthetic cause I can reel off so many of these. Off the top of my head; Dirk Gently, Doom Patrol, Umbrella Academy, Loki, and Dead Boy Detectives, just to start. I think weirdly tonally and aesthetically these shows owe a lot to Pushing Daisies.

anyway yeah is there a name for this?

[identifying-cars-in-posts]

Okay, so I read your post about submissions versus asks, so I hope that I'm doing this right. But there's this van from a show called Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. And it's been a dream of mine to basically recreate it from the ground up IRL. The problem is, I'm still very new to learning about cars and I have yet to find somebody who has even a good guess as to what this type of car is. So when I saw your blog I thought I'd give it a shot! I hope your week is going well!

2006-2010 Chevrolet Express Van/GMC Savanna

[noakines]

[proinsiascassius]

if you are in the already dead dirk gently (2016) fandom, i suggest you join the deader dirk gently (2010) fandom, along with the book fandom if you really enjoy the isolation.

[akaryotic]

yo anyone here heard of dirk gently (2010)

can anyone hear me

[androgymagnus]

i just put the first year it aired to clarify but couldnt be bothered to check when each ended so rip

[thecannibalroyal]

I just rewatched the first two episodes of Dirk Gently (2010) and I forgot how accurate Stephen Mangan's portrayal of Gently is to the books. Also Darren Boyd's MacDuff is just perfect *chefs kiss*

Love my queer autistic detective boys 💕 (Sorry I don't make the rules, it just makes sense)