‘Dead Boy Detectives’ EPs on Whether [SPOILER] Is Really Dead — and What ‘Sandman’ Characters They’d Want in Season 2
variety.comHunter Ingram SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers from the entire first season of “Dead Boy Detectives,” now streaming on Netflix.
The Dead Boy Detectives may have closed the case of Port Townsend, but they don’t jump back through the mirror to merry old London the same boys they once were.
In the Season 1 finale of Netflix’s adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s “Dead Boy Detectives” comic books, Edwin (George Rexstrew) and Charles (Jayden Revri) find themselves in the well-manicured clutches of resident witch Esther (Jenn Lyon), who is hellbent on bottling the youthful elixir she brews from the anguish attached to Edwin’s soul from his decades of torture in Hell.
Pesky witches, always trying to steal childhood trauma for their skin care routine. But with the help of Crystal (Kassius Nelson), who has restored her rather unwelcome memories of being a horrible person, and Niko (Yuyu Kitamura), the sweetest soul ever to exist, the Dead Boys are able to defeat Esther by tattling on her to Lilith, the goddess of wronged women and blood magic –– and the person who had given Esther her immortality.
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