Evi I haven't read the books and I only decided to watch this after having seen the 2016 dirk gently series ( which I loved by the way)Well, this show had definitely some potential since the actors are good and the premise is really interesting.However, I couldn't help but notice the striking similarity that this show had to BBC's Sherlock. Even the music is similar. And by comparing the two shows this one comes off as a silly ripoff of the other. Apart from that the thing that made me angry the most was the questions this Pilot left unanswered1.Why MacDuff sent this email to his girlfriend in the first place? 2.Why did he had to break in her house since they live together? 3.HOW CAN AN IPHONE BATTERY LAST FOR 16YEARS??????THEY DON'T EVEN LAST A DAY 4.How can a old lady kill not one but two people with a pun? I am not an expert but I imagine that killing someone with a pun would require a lot of strength. 5.How the therapist didn't see that the man lying down wasn't the man that jumped off the balcony? They didn't even wear similar clothes. All in all, I wouldn't really recommend this show to anyone. To the person that's reading this review GO WATCH SHERLOCK(2010) OR DIRK GENTLY'S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY(2016) INSTEAD.

paul2001sw-1 Douglas Adams wrote the brilliant 'The Hitchikers' Guide to the Galaxy' and then, arguably, struggled to produce anything else that quite matched: the Dirk Gently novels (there were a couple), about an unlikely detective, were one of his subsequent projects. Brought to T.V., they share some of the weakness of the books: not as zanily crazy as his first work, but hardly deep enough to work as real drama. But there are still some funny moments in this adaptation, although it's set in the present day and is arguably more "inspired by" than a literal translation of the original. Still, something of the spirit of the author shines through, arguably more so than in the hyperactive 'Hitchkikers' film of a couple of years ago.

a_prill This thing was made by people who never read the Dirk Gently books, but were told the plot by someone who only vaguely remembers it, and then decided that they didn't like it much and could do better anyway.The actors look and behave nothing like they are described by Douglas Adams, some of the best parts are cut out, and there's no trace of the general eerie - quirky feeling that is so great in the books.I admit that I didn't manage to watch more than fifteen minutes of the thing, it was depressing to me, since I'd been waiting and hoping to see my favorite Douglas Adams books dramatized for ages. But the little i did manage to endure was an insult to Adams' memory and talent. I wish they could've resisted the temptation to ruin Dirk Gently for everyone.

Tweekums Having enjoyed Douglas Adam's Dirk Gently novels many year ago I was interested to see if this television version would be enjoyable too. It soon became apparent that this would only be very loosely based on the books but that didn't stop it being enjoyable. Steven Manghan was good as the somewhat shambolic detective who believes that everything in the universe is connected. We are introduced to him as he is interviewing a client whose cat has gone missing; this might seem somewhat routine but it leads to an old university friend, his girl friend and how they are connected to the missing cat and an equally missing billionaire. Gently's methods are rather eccentric and more than a little dubious… he breaks in to a warehouse at one point and later pays a ten year old computer hacker with two hundred cigarettes! Mangan is ably supported by Darran Boyd who plays his friend McDuff and Helen Bexandale who plays McDuff's girlfriend Susan.While this may be a detective story that is not the programme's main appeal, this is a good thing as the mystery isn't that great… it was funny though; I found myself laughing far more than I expected to. I also liked the fact that Gently wasn't the most moral of people; during the course of the show we see him driving off after hitting somebody with his car, conning his friend into joining the business so he can have a holiday and stealing a psychologist's files. Although this was made as a one off I wouldn't be surprised if a series were to be commissioned although if that were the case I wouldn't expect it to remain on the digital backwater that is BBC4.