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Also off-topic: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.

I read both the books and they were good. There was a short lived British TV series starting Stephen Mangan that was great and seemed at least partially based on some events and descriptions in the books, and two seasons of a US TV series on Netflix that was off-the-fucking-wall crazy in a not-quite-Douglas-Adams way, and unique to the point that I was pleasantly surprised that it got a second series. Thoroughly recommend for anyone that considers themselves bored with television. Unique doesn't feel like a strong enough word.

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The TV show was great because it really got me feeling that everything was random, then everything was connected in some ridiculously complex way, exactly how it should for a holistic story.

I'd recommend the TV show for anyone that has gotten a bit too good at predicting endings a few episodes before the end. This one doesn't follow the traditional story arcs.

I thought I was the only one who actually liked the Netflix version. It was delightfully surreal. At the time, all I found were intensely negative reviews complaining about the fact that the show had nothing at all to do with the books.

Which is admittedly true. But it is still one of those shows where the characters are entertaining enough on their own that you don't even care about the plot, which isn't half bad.

I would not have minded a third season.

Seconded. Both Dirk Gently series are good, both should have had additional seasons.

The interesting thing (to me) about the first Dirk Gently book is that it was largely a repurposed Dr Who script - in which version Reg was a retired time lord. Such a fun angle on the story!

The 3rd Hitchhiker novel, "Life, the Universe, and Everything", is also a repurposed Dr Who script: "Dr Who and the Krikkitmen".

Heh, which reminds me, it's my head-canon that the sofa in LtU&E is the same one that's in Dirk Gently and in City of Death. Given that it's flotsam in the space time continuum it seems perfectly reasonable :)

If you enjoyed the "off the wall" and uniqueness maybe check out "Love, Death + Robots" on Netflix.

10min story bites - cruisy, drama, comedy, horror. Little bit of everything except the usual.

Seen it through twice, love it, want another installment!

The Electric Monk is a masterful character.

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