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Dead Boy Detectives is featured on Netflix’s Dark and Twisted Shows to Delight Your Inner Wednesday Addams;

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Entertainment Weekly just placed Dead Boy Detectives on their "Top 19 Best Supernatural Shows to Stream Right Now" list.

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Mind you, Dead Boy Detectives is making these lists AFTER cancelation! IT RANKED AT NUMBER 5/19 (and beat out some pretty big names, I might add). The EW is a hugely popular publication! It's so bonkers to me that Netflix would cancel such a highly beloved, successful show that I had to write them about it, yet again!

If you need inspiration to keep talking about Dead Boy Detectives and hold out hope that we can save this show, THIS should help. Keep streaming, keep promoting it EVERYWHERE, keep creating for it, and for the love of all things wonderful keep bothering Netflix. This show shouldn't have been canceled, and we need to keep reminding them of what a poor decision they're making. ESPECIALLY with GeekedWeek coming up, we need to be SUPER noisy for and about Dead Boy Detectives.

A transcript of the email I sent out today can be found below the cut! A list of Netflix exec emails can be found HERE.

!!!! Note: you can use my email as a framework or as inspiration, but DO NOT copy and paste it word-for-word, or else it will be marked as spam !!!!

Dear [Insert Recipient's Name],

I hope this email finds you well! I previously reached out regarding Netflix's unfortunate decision to cancel Dead Boy Detectives, but since our previous correspondence, there have been several articles admonishing the surprising and untimely cancelation of Dead Boy Detectives. The publications include but are not limited to BamSmackPow, CBR, CHIP, Quotenmeter, Serienjunkies, Serienfuchs, Filmstarts, Movie Pilot, Kino, Vodafone Deutschland, Dread Central, Pop Culture, Sentidog, Geek Girl Authority. and Animation World Network.

Three notable articles have come out post-cancelation that I'd like to highlight due to their succinct, well-informed perspectives on why canceling Dead Boy Detectives was a poor decision are as follows:

The Death of 'Dead Boy Detectives' Was Untimely by Lacy Baugher at Tellyvisions.org

Dead Boy Detectives: The Latest Casualty in a Concerning Trend of LGBTQ+ Show Cancellations by Sam Huang at TellTaleTV.com

Netflix made a grave mistake canceling 'Dead Boy Detectives' by David Opie at YahooNews

It would be remiss of me not to emphasize how these publications are not just central to the US and UK; the cancelation of Dead Boy Detectives is being reported and scrutinized internationally, in several languages and countries.

What truly prompted me to contact you again is an article that was released by Entertainment Weekly today, September 11, 2024. In the article, "The Best 19 Supernatural Shows to Stream Right Now," EW placed Dead Boy Detectives in the #5 slot: it outranked other shows on your platform such as Stranger Things (#13) and Wednesday (#18). The Sandman, the show which Dead Boy Detectives is a spinoff of, is notably not present on the list at all. You can find the article here on ew.com.

Dead Boy Detectives was also ranked as the #1 Best DC Live Action Show available on Netflix by MovieWeb, outranking titles such as The Flash (which has a whopping 9 seasons), Lucifer (a show that was so loved by fans that Netflix picked it up after its own untimely cancelation, mind you) and, yet again, The Sandman.

All this to say, Dead Boy Detectives is still making "Best of" lists even after its cancellation, and it is ranking exceedingly well on said lists! This speaks volumes in and of itself; people are just as outraged today as they were the day it was canceled and it's abundantly clear that critics and audiences alike love this show and want to see more of it! You have a hit show on your hands that is growing in popularity daily, meaning Netflix truly has everything to gain by listening to customers and rethinking this objectively unpopular and unfounded decision.

Please do not waste the immense potential of this incredible show that means so much to so many people. I appreciate your consideration today and implore you to listen to the outcries of fans and critics alike, to do right by the cast and crew of Dead Boy Detectives, and ultimately repeal its cancelation.

Sincerely,

[Your Name]

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Dead Boy Detectives is featured with an "Overwhelming amount of responses" on Buzzfeed’s Underrated Queer TV Shows 🏳️‍🌈

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‘Dead Boy Detectives deserves a new streaming home and a second chance at life’

Please share and spread this article far and wide! It’s extremely important and is a huge feature for the show! 💜 If you have Twitter, please share and interact with the post there as well!

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‘Dead Boy Detectives’ Stars Jayden Revri and George Rexstrew on Going to Hell and Edwin’s Soul-Bearing Confession to Charles

'Dead Boy Detectives' Stars George Rexstrew and Jayden Revri talk that big confession.

What do you want to see these guys get into next if you get a second season? The agency has certainly expanded by the finale. Revri: What about Drag Boy Detectives, George? Rexstrew: I’m down for that! I would love to solve some cases in the U.K. as well. What is great about our show is that ghosts and supernatural crimes exist everywhere, so the possibilities are endless.

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The Stars of ‘Dead Boy Detectives’ Fell in Love at First Sight

“[Our] chemistry, I can guarantee, was something that neither of us even thought about the whole time.”

What begins as a kind of forced companionship gradually blossoms into an unlikely friendship between two kindred spirits who are seeking a genuine connection. “This isn’t something that’s featured in the show, but they’re both teenagers, they have mutual interests, and, as per the comics, they would go to the cinema and watch detective films,” Rexstrew says. “As well as being the yin to his yang, Charles is the office Labrador and brings out the playful facets to Edwin’s character.” “I love the scene of us doing the boxing in the pilot so much because that’s just the perfect example,” Revri chimes in. “Edwin wouldn’t do that for anyone [else]; there’s only one person that can make him that way. When you get to that point of seeing where their origin came from, you realize that they’re two teenage boys who have been wronged by other teenage boys. That common ground that they find just naturally attracts them together from the start.”

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George Rexstrew and Jayden Revri Break Down Dead Boy Detectives Queer Moments

“There are people out there for you.”

Both actors hope that fans find comfort in Edwin and Charles’ relationship as chosen family. “Even if you’re born into a scenario where those around you don’t accept you for who you are, there are people out there for you,” says Rexstrew.

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How ‘Dead Boy Detectives’ Proves There’s Life After Network TV for the YA Genre

The Netflix series’ cast and creatives unpack how they delivered a spirited — and inclusive — new coming of age tale. 

“Edwin and Charles have died, but in a lot of ways they’ve never had to face that they’re dead,” creator Steve Yockey explains of the show’s ghostly duo. “And here comes this living teenage girl [Crystal] that upsets the applecart. All of a sudden everyone’s having to learn how to grieve for these experiences that happened a long time ago or face things about their lives they’ve put behind them but never really processed.”