Adam Lenhardt
Senior HTF Member
Joe Cornish's latest entertainment about British youth battling supernatural forces comes in the form of this Netflix series, set in an alternate present day where the veil between the living and the dead thinned out a bit in the early seventies with extremely lethal consequences. Now the world locks itself inside at sunset and relies on teenage paranormal investigators to keep the threat at bay.
The central character is 16-year-old Lucy Carlyle, Lockwood and Co.'s newest hire. As played by Ruby Stokes, she reminds me strongly of a young Milana Vayntrub with an English accent. The worldbuilding is subtle but also interesting; the crisis with ghosts killing so many people has drastically slowed down technological advancement, and the electronic revolution of the eighties never happened. So no cellphones, no modern cars, most record keeping still done on paper.
After the first episode, I'm hooked.
The central character is 16-year-old Lucy Carlyle, Lockwood and Co.'s newest hire. As played by Ruby Stokes, she reminds me strongly of a young Milana Vayntrub with an English accent. The worldbuilding is subtle but also interesting; the crisis with ghosts killing so many people has drastically slowed down technological advancement, and the electronic revolution of the eighties never happened. So no cellphones, no modern cars, most record keeping still done on paper.
After the first episode, I'm hooked.
