Comedy
Dead Boy Detectives
Dead Boy Detectives targets teens in style and story. But it comes with very adult, problematic content.
Charles Sun checks the cake he’s baking in his apartment in Taipei, Taiwan. The toothpick comes out sticky, so he puts it back in the oven for a couple more minutes. While he waits, he kills the three men who are attempting to murder him.
Alas, the Taipei gangster’s cake is burned by the time he is finished.
That’s when Charles’ father arrives to check in on him—and not everything adds up. Why just three? He asks himself. Every notable gangster in the country knows that it’ll take more than that to take down his son.
He’s still thinking about it when the bullet rockets into his belly. He’s quickly whisked away to a hospital, where he lies in a coma.
It turns out, the killers weren’t after Charles at all. They wanted to draw Charles’ father out via an attack on Charles in order to assassinate him. Worried for the rest of the family, Charles decides to go to Los Angeles, where his mother and brother live, in order to protect them.
But his brother, Bruce, hasn’t lived the same life. He’s taking improv acting classes and struggling to pay for college. He has no idea that his last name is revered and feared in the world of crime. And when Charles arrives, so too will more assassins.
So he’ll need to learn quickly if he doesn’t want his Sun to set.
The Brothers Sun may have the same family, but they’ve lived completely different lives.
Charles has a passion for baking, but it comes second to being his father’s personal assassin. Meanwhile, Bruce has a passion for improv, and he tries to fit it in between his busy college schedule and his job as a Lyft driver. Perhaps the only interest the two have in common is avoiding a bullet to the head.
That violent act (and many more like it) will be the biggest issues viewers will face in this series—and some of them can be quite gruesome, such as when a man’s head is seen stuffed in a freezer, or when an assassin tears his hand from under a knife that’s pinning it down. Yes, you can imagine there will be blood, and there’s plenty of swears that’ll be uttered along with those painful moments.
Furthermore, drug-dealing and drug use are issues as well.
The Brothers Sun isn’t as bad as it could have been. There’s little to worry about in terms of sexual content, for instance. But its other issues might remind you of staring at the real sun: you’ll only manage a few seconds before you should probably look away.
Following an assassination attempt on his father’s life, Charles goes to Los Angeles to protect his mother and brother.
Charles is attacked by a group of masked attackers. He dodges their knife swings, and he stabs one of them and beats the others to death with a rolling pin. One man is pinned to the ground when knives are stabbed through his hands, and he gruesomely rips his hand through one knife to escape from it. Charles’ father is shot in the stomach. Other people are shot and killed. Someone is hit with a throwing knife. A man is tased. Someone threatens to shoot a man in the genitals.
People reference male genitalia as a way to talk about being brave.
A man smokes marijuana, and he talks about selling cocaine and ecstasy. He recruits Bruce to do it with him. People drink shots and smoke cigarettes. Women vomit.
The f-word is used 13 times, and the s-word is used eight times. We also hear words like “a–,” “d–n,” “b–ch,” “h—” and “pr-ck.” God’s name is used in vain six times.
Kennedy Unthank studied journalism at the University of Missouri. He knew he wanted to write for a living when he won a contest for “best fantasy story” while in the 4th grade. What he didn’t know at the time, however, was that he was the only person to submit a story. Regardless, the seed was planted. Kennedy collects and plays board games in his free time, and he loves to talk about biblical apologetics. He thinks the ending of Lost “wasn’t that bad.”
Dead Boy Detectives targets teens in style and story. But it comes with very adult, problematic content.
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