BBC Four has decided to adapt Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. However, as I looked for some comparative opinions about the the book and series, I concluded they had nothing in common. I did not read the previously mentioned novel, but I did read The Salmon of Doubt and I have to admit that I did not have any kind of expectation toward these series. Except I know Douglas Adams, thus I prepared for something funny.
Dirk Gently is an expelled student from university who happened to come across with his old fellow-student, Richard Macduff. The story kicks off when Dirk agreed to investigate in a case of a missing cat, called Henry. An old lady, Ruth Jordan, misses him. After leaving the premises of Mrs. Jordan, Dirk notices a burglar. He identifies the muggler as Richard Macduff, he calls the apartment and scolds his old friend. After Richard came out, he admits that the apartment belongs to his girlfriend with whom he was about to break up. He gave another thought of that idea and decided not to break up with her. He stole her laptop, but to get into her e-mail account, he has to hack it. Dirk offers his help if Richard has any information about the whereabouts of Henry the Cat. They went to a warehouse which was later blown into pieces. Inspector DI Gilks comes and remarks that a billionaire is missing.
The case is set, what is a connection between the missing person and Henry the Cat. How is Richard's girlfriend is related to the missing ones? Every questions are answered within that hour.
I feel somehow awkward about this series. It is my understanding that it would not like to have strong ties to DA, but either the talk is too simple to become a laughing matter or it is too culturally based. Whichever the case, I do not find Dirk Gently particularly funny. There were good moments, no doubt, but as a whole it is not humorous.
It is rather a detective story with all its mandatory ingredients: a genius detective with a peculiar method, a helping hand, an always grumpy not being paid secretary and the mystery itself. Dirk's method is interconnectedness. Which reminds me of the notion of six degrees of separation. Dirk mentions another famous experiment, the Schrödiger's cat.
The series is nice but it would better if the audience do not expect anything Douglas Adams-like because the social criticism, the shrewdness and the eerie atmosphere are not present.
The case is set, what is a connection between the missing person and Henry the Cat. How is Richard's girlfriend is related to the missing ones? Every questions are answered within that hour.
I feel somehow awkward about this series. It is my understanding that it would not like to have strong ties to DA, but either the talk is too simple to become a laughing matter or it is too culturally based. Whichever the case, I do not find Dirk Gently particularly funny. There were good moments, no doubt, but as a whole it is not humorous.
It is rather a detective story with all its mandatory ingredients: a genius detective with a peculiar method, a helping hand, an always grumpy not being paid secretary and the mystery itself. Dirk's method is interconnectedness. Which reminds me of the notion of six degrees of separation. Dirk mentions another famous experiment, the Schrödiger's cat.
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