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- Prime Video
- Oct 29, 2020
- Prime Video
- Oct 29, 2020
Summary Gus (Nick Frost) and Dave (Simon Pegg) are part-time ghost hunters who decide to team up to film paranormal sightings in the UK in this comedy series created by Frost, Pegg, James Serafinowicz, and Nat Saunders.
Created By: Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, Nat Saunders, James Serafinowicz
- Prime Video
- Oct 29, 2020
- Prime Video
- Oct 29, 2020
Summary Gus (Nick Frost) and Dave (Simon Pegg) are part-time ghost hunters who decide to team up to film paranormal sightings in the UK in this comedy series created by Frost, Pegg, James Serafinowicz, and Nat Saunders.
Created By: Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, Nat Saunders, James Serafinowicz
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Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
60
30% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
70% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
0% Negative
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The magic of Pegg and Frost is alive and well, and Truth Seekers strikes the perfect balance of heart, horror, and humanity. This one is more than worth your time.
The first few episodes of "Truth Seekers" are somewhat disappointing, but the acting is strong and there's potential for improvement.
The problem with Truth Seekers is that it’s a 21st century Amazon Prime comedy-horror that not so secretly wants to be an unnerving BBC kids caper circa 1978 and generally lacks any deeper ambitions. Frost and Pegg will never not be likeable together. It’s just a pity Truth Seekers isn’t that bit funnier and scarier.
Gus is motivated by grief, and Frost can do sensitive, too, but Truth Seekers sometimes struggles to achieve the right balance between its different elements. You can understand why they wanted to try something new, rather than play it safe, but director Edgar Wright’s absence looms large.
Truth Seekers isn't anywhere near as funny or scary as HBO's Los Espookys, but as single-agenda shows go it's still funnier than Fox's short-lived Ghosted and scarier than Hulu's likely-to-be-short-lived Helstrom.
It’s a show that seems content in the tonal middle—not funny but not scary or thrilling either. It just kind of sits there, almost refusing to go too broad into either of its genres.
This horror-comedy series just wants to make you chuckle, and with regards to its potential scares, only a little anxious. But it's so resoundingly slack and lazily written that neither its horror or comedy have that vital sense of timing, or danger.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 13 User Ratings
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 13 User Ratings
6.9
69% Positive
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