The Mysterious Benedict Society

If you read Walliams to your children (and you should, you'll like it as much them), for example, you'll enjoy this wacky and highly stylised adventure like a little kid, plus, it’s done as if Wes Anderson had shot a the travails of Santa Claus. In the space of eight episodes, it sticks out too much that this is an adaptation, it could (and should) have been shorter, but the kids are not annoying (in fact, two of them are brilliant), it's got style, swing and ideas, and it checks the family entertainment box in the best sense of the word. There aren’t many series like this these days, in fact, I can’t think of a similar live action show from the last few years. | S1: 4/5 | (27.10.2022)