Truth Seekers (2020)

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At 8 half-hours, Nick Frost and Simon Pegg's Truth Seekers isn't a big investment, and rewards its audience with a humorous take on the spooky television trend we've gotten of late. Frost is a wi-fi installer who moonlights as a ghost hunter for his YouTube channel. His nerdy boss (Pegg) saddles him with an assistant just in time for supernatural activity to ramp up and in short order, a small cast assembles around him, including his dad played by Malcolm McDowell, the assistant's cosplaying, agoraphobic sister, and a girl haunted by ghosts. Each episode kind of has its own little story, but as it's all part of a greater tapestry, where each mystery is actually part of that grand scheme. It's funny and plays with horror tropes in a clever and fun way, but there are still some real chills, threading that genre needle quite well. My one complain, really, is that the ghost effects have a video look that maybe sends my mind down the wrong path, but it might be part of the whole wi-fi theme, I'm not sure. It's an interesting new visual, it just tweaks horror iconography in an odd way is all. 3 years 5 months ago