‘Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency’: The Strangest Show You’re Not Watching Right Now

Murder, soul-swapping, time travel, fate, conspiracies, magic, shape-shifters, psychics, assassins, alternate universes — it’s all fair game in Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, the most bizarre and intriguing show to fly under your radar. On Friday, October 6, 2017, at New York Comic Con, the cast and creator of the show took to the Main Stage at the Javits Center to answer questions and introduce the season two premiere. Courtesy of BBC America Inspired by the Douglas Adams novel of the same name, BBC America’s Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency is a bizarre detective story in which nothing is as it seems. In the first episode of the series, when a hotel bell hop named Todd Brotzman (Elijah Wood) discovers the dead body of millionaire Patrick Spring, he gets roped into the investigation of a “holistic detective” named Dirk Gently (Samuel Barnett) who stumbles his way through his cases. With two detectives searching for the missing Lydia Spring, the daughter of the slain millionaire; black-ops tailing Dirk Gently; a group of four guys who call themselves the “Rowdy 3” jumping in on the action; a cult of supernatural goons killing and kidnapping persons of interest; a mysterious corgi; and a holistic assassin named Bart aiming to kill Dirk Gently, everything eventually converges in a way that proves the show’s central point: “Everything is connected.” From the beginning, the show takes it on faith that you’ll stick with it through all of its absurdity to get to th…