THE MYSTERIOUS BENEDICT SOCIETY Season One
UK/US Disney+, streaming now
Showrunners Todd Slavkin, Darren Swimmer
Cast Tony Hale, Mystic Inscho, Emmy De Oliveira, Seth Carr
EPISODES 1.01-1.08
name like a Dan Brown is aimed squarely at kids: the kind who enjoy puzzles, consider themselves to be weirdos and find the rules and regulations of school life stifling. Whether they’ve already read Trenton Lee Stewart’s bestselling five-book series doesn’t matter, although if they’ve read/watched they might recognise some of this show’s stylings. And that’s not all that’s recognisable: adults watching this may think they’ve stumbled across a Wes Anderson movie. This is not, by the way, a criticism.
