A Manic Private Investigator Barges Into Elijah Wood’s Life In This Dirk Gently Sneak Peek

A Manic Private Investigator Barges Into Elijah Wood’s Life In This Dirk Gently Sneak Peek

Video: BBC America’s version of Douglas Adams’ Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency is the latest entry in what is becoming a genre all its own these days: Know-it-all British men barging into normal people’s lives and dragging them into adventures.

In this show’s case, the man barging in is Dirk Gently (Samuel Barnett), who is investigating a death and kidnapping, and has determined that Todd (Elijah Wood) has no choice but to investigate the crime with him. Also, there’s a corgi for some reason.

Here’s the footage shown at Comic-Con:


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