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The Irregulars (TV Series)

The Irregulars

2021

Tom Bidwell (Creator), Joss Agnew ...

Thaddea Graham, Darci Shaw, Jojo Macari, McKell David ...

4.8

697

TV Series. Fantasy. Mystery. Horror 8 episodes. A ragtag crew of misfits investigates a series of supernatural crimes in Victorian London for Dr. Watson and his shadowy associate, Sherlock Holmes.

	Author	Review
United States	Daniel Fienberg The Hollywood Reporter	"The flaws point to a show that wants to be for everybody, just not anybody specific (...) It's the relentless checking of boxes that makes episodes run past 50 minutes"	NEU
United States	Gwen Ihnat AV Club	"Primarily, 'The Irregulars' serves as a conduit, especially for fans of Sherlock Holmes in all his many forms, into some goosebump-inducing, jump-scare-filled mysteries—intriguing to be sure, but not for the faint of heart"	POS
Australia	Wenlei Ma News	"It’s an interesting twist on the classic Sherlock stories (...) The writing is rote, the emotional beats sanitised and it’s never as gothic as you want it be. Still, most of the characters are engaging"	NEU
United States	Judy Berman Time	"The reason to watch 'The Irregulars' is because it’s fun. And it’s most fun when it leans into dark pastiche: opium dens, taxidermists, occultists..."	POS
United States	John Anderson The Wall Street Journal	"[It] amounts to appropriation bordering on kleptomania. This would all be OK, if there were major dividends. But the show is something of a grind, the tedium relieved by sometimes appalling gore and uncharming characters"	NEG
United States	Daniel D'Addario Variety	"The horrors depicted in 'The Irregulars' are somewhat extreme (...) as the show aims more to startle than dazzle (...) [The plot] feels baldly derivative of 'Stranger Things'"	NEU
Denmark	Karina Adelgaard Heaven of Horror	"[Tom Bidwell] has done an excellent job of building this new universe (...) This series gets darker throughout the season and the characters only get more interesting (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Huw Fullerton Radio Times	"'The Irregulars' has a lot of good qualities and some fun ideas, but as a whole it doesn’t quite mesh (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
Canada	Norman Wilner Now Toronto	"[It] is rather a disappointment (...) [Bidwell] seems desperate to hold his viewers’ attention, so he constantly throws new complications into his story"	NEG
United States	Daniel Hart Ready Steady Cut	"It’s the emotional aspect that truly works for this series; with all the brilliant costumes, directing and special effects, what really pulls the audience in is the characters’ ability to relay their deep-rooted objectives (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Greg Wheeler The Review Geek	"If you can go into this with an open mind you may find something to like but 'The Irregulars' doesn’t do enough to stand out from the crowd."	NEU

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