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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
2016 · TV series · 42 min episodes · 2 seasons
Created by Max Landis
ComedyScience FictionFantasyCrime
A comedic thriller that follows the bizarre adventures of eccentric “holistic” detective Dirk Gently and his reluctant assistant Todd. An adaptation of Douglas Adams’ wildly successful comic novels.
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> There’s something seriously brainwashed about looking at what’s at offer today and still concluding that because the Sopranos exists we’re still producing good content.
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
The Wire
You're the Worst
The Good Place
Too many decent-to-great sitcoms and sketch-comedy shows to list.
Ditto adult animated shows.
Justified
Evil
Several great limited series (e.g. The Haunting of Hill House)
I could keep going. The last couple decades have given us a lot of really good shows since The Sopranos. I watch a fair amount and still have a backlog of probably-great stuff I haven't gotten to yet (including, actually, The Sopranos!) and continue to stumble on shows I've never even heard of that turn out to be really good.
Also off-topic: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.
I read both the books and they were good. There was a short lived British TV series starting Stephen Mangan that was great and seemed at least partially based on some events and descriptions in the books, and two seasons of a US TV series on Netflix that was off-the-fucking-wall crazy in a not-quite-Douglas-Adams way, and unique to the point that I was pleasantly surprised that it got a second series. Thoroughly recommend for anyone that considers themselves bored with television. Unique doesn't feel like a strong enough word.
I would like to be able to tell any digital assistant enabled device in my home to "play latest episode of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency on the living room TV" and have it work. I feel like that's a very simple, minimal viable product, sort of request. Siri responds with "Hmm, I'm not finding anything for that."
I'd also like to be able to ask "How many steps have I taken today?" Siri responds with "I can't answer that on your iPhone but you can find it in the Health app: Open the Health app"
This may feel like a big ask considering the majority of the basics aren't covered on the platform I'm using, but compound questions would be wonderful – "show me the thirty largest US cities" "remove any that do not have a moderate climate" "which one has the lowest cost of living?"
If platforms already provide these services and I'm simply using the wrong one – oops.