SummaryPsychic teen Lucy Carlyle (Ruby Stokes) joins a London ghost-hunting agency run by two teenagers named Anthony Lockwood (Cameron Chapman) and George Karim (Ali Hadji-Heshmati) in this supernatural series created by Joe Cornish.
SummaryPsychic teen Lucy Carlyle (Ruby Stokes) joins a London ghost-hunting agency run by two teenagers named Anthony Lockwood (Cameron Chapman) and George Karim (Ali Hadji-Heshmati) in this supernatural series created by Joe Cornish.
It’s very satisfying in its own straight-ahead manner — touching and quick on its feet, with an excellent performance by Ruby Stokes (the sixth sibling in “Bridgerton”) as Lucy, the female point in the typical two-guys-and-a-girl teenage-melodrama triangle.
There are mysteries, sword fights and jump scares aplenty, as well as some marvellous supporting turns from Ivanno Jeremiah as the no-nonsense Inspector Barnes and Luke Treadaway as The Golden Blade, who strike the perfect balance of camp and gravitas.
Driven in particular by Stokes’s gutsy performance, it has a zinging underdog charm. It’s impossible to say if it will be as big a hit as Wednesday. But it certainly has the potential to suck Gen-Zers into its satisfyingly sinister world.
The latest in a long line of YA supernatural sagas from Netflix is a cut above, thanks to smart choices from showrunner Joe Cornish and a sparky young cast.
Unfortunately, it’s easy enough to see where the twists and turns are going to take us - and what could have been a huge plot twist to set up the final episode can be seen a mile away. But it’s Cornish’s ability to bring the most terrifying parts of Stroud’s novels to life (or to death) that sets Lockwood & Co apart from Netflix’s other fantasy offerings.