Creeptastic Truth Seekers takes its horror seriously—but not too seriously

Enlarge / (l-r) Emma D'Arcy, Nick Frost, and Samson Kanyo star in Truth Seekers. (credit: Amazon Prime)

A lonely broadband installer with a side gig as a ghost hunter and his new partner encounter more supernatural intrigue than they bargained for in Truth Seekers, a new comedy series on Amazon Prime, created by Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, James Serafinowicz, and Nat Saunders. We're fans of Paul, Shaun of the Dead, and the rest of the Three Flavors Cornetto trilogy, so it's nice to see Frost and Pegg back together on-screen again. Truth Seekers brings their unique comic sensibility to the topic of paranormal investigation.

Per the official synopsis:

Truth Seekers is a supernatural comedy series about a team of part-time paranormal investigators who team up to uncover and film ghost sightings across the UK, sharing their adventures on an online channel for all to see. However, as they stake out haunted churches, underground bunkers and abandoned hospitals with their array of homemade ghost-detecting gizmos, their supernatural experiences grow more frequent, more terrifying and even deadly, as they begin to uncover a conspiracy that could bring about Armageddon for the entire human race.

Frost plays Gus-a lonely widowed guy with a boring job installing broadband for a company called SMYLE-who moonlights as an amateur paranormal investigator. The titular Truth Seekers is the name of his YouTube channel. Pegg has a somewhat smaller role (in terms of screen time) as Gus' cheerfully exuberant boss, Dave, who sports a positively disastrous wig and seems to be very keen on always maintaining "100 percent coverage." Is he really that gung-ho about customer service, or is there some ulterior motive at SMYLE?

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