Unfortunately,the show’s inventive spin on the detective genre wasn’t enough to convince Netflix.
Dead Boy Detectives had an incredibly sharp decline, falling to a slim 1.8 million views by week three.
The Sandmanspin-offgarnered just 3.1 million views in its first three days on the platform.
After that, it vanished from the streamer’s Top 10 chart altogether.
Netflix’s metrics for determining a show’s success or failure are often criticized for being obtuse.
However,the streaming giant often cites a week-to-week drop-off as a major factor in its renewal decisions.
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In 2022, a similar fate befell1899, a German sci-fi mystery series that felt like theperfectDarkreplacement.
Now,Dead Boy Detectivesjoins a Netflix graveyard that’s piled high with other genre series, from1899toThe OAandSense8.
Plus,newSandmanseason 2 characters, like Orpheus, were first referenced inDead Boy Detectivesseason 1.
Based on the DC series, Dead Boy Detectives is a supernatural comedy-mystery series created for Netflix. Two young men from different find one another in death but decide to skip the afterlife and remain among the living with a new purpose - to solve various supernatural mysteries the way only two deceased detectives can.
Dead Boy Detectivesseason 1 is streaming on Netflix.
