Truth Seekers: Every Episode, Ranked According To IMDb
On February 11, 2021, Amazon announced the decision to cancel the cheeky supernatural comedy series Truth Seekers after just one season. Created by Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, and Nat Saunders, the series lasted eight episodes and less than four months before the decision was made to pull the plug on a second season.
Despite the low viewership, the series drew mixed to positive reviews, culling a 76% Rotten Tomatoes score to go along with a 60/100 Metascore. One of the biggest gripes about the show is that it failed to recreate the onscreen chemistry between Frost and Pegg, the popular co-stars of Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Paul, and others. But, how did fans react to each episode of the series, according to IMDb rating?
8 The Ghost Of The Beast Of Bodmin - Episode 5 - 7.0/10
Upon receiving a call from Jojo74 (Kelly Macdonald), Gus, Elton, and Astrid head to Cornwall to investigate the Beast of Bordim Moor. When they discover the beast's hideout in the basement of a restaurant, they are chased into hiding by the odious monster. The whole thing turns out to be a large hoax.
Back at Gus' house, Helen tends to Richard's eye, which was injured by a nanobot implant during Toynbee's hypnotic presentation. Richard pays little mind to the injury and a vision of Toynbee's trance-like incantation.
7 The Haunting Of Connelly's Nook - Episode 1 - 7.0/10
The opening frame of Truth Seekers introduces Gus Roberts (Frost) and his colleague Elton John (Samson Kayo), two installation repairmen for the Smyle mobile and internet company.
When dispatched to fix Mrs. Connelly's busted smart TV, Gus and Elton discover the Connelly house haunted by the ghost of her old dog Pepper, which was used as an eerie supernatural experiment by her father decades prior. An experiment that was designed to separate Pepper's soul from her body, which is an underlying theme of the show.
6 The Incident At CovColCosCon - Episode 4 - 7.2/10
The abbreviated episode title refers to the Coventry Collectibles & Cosplay Convention that Elton's agoraphobic sister Helen is dying to attend. Gus and his father-in-law Richard (Malcolm McDowell) join the two when Gus learns his idol Dr. Peter Toynbee (Julian Barratt) will speak at the event.
At the convention, the power of the Praecepta is used by evil costumed monks to hypnotize the crowd, doing so as part of Toynbee's evil plot. Gus and Elton unwittingly thwart the plan by getting up and leaving in the middle of the show.
5 The Girl With All The Ghosts - Episode 3 - 7.2/10
Gus and Elton are asked to arrange a séance for Astrid (Emma D'Arcy), a young woman who is tormented by a supernatural presence. The two recruit a quirky medium named Janey (Morgana Robinson), who owns an accursed 17th-century tome of black magic called Praecepta Morutorom.
When the séance backfires, Gus takes the book home and organizes an exorcism to rid Astrid of her demons. Despite seeing his dead wife in the process, Gus manages to exorcise Astrid just before she loses her life.
4 The Watcher On The Water - Episode 2 - 7.3/10
Gus and Elton get more than they bargained for when sent to The Portland Beacon to fix the hotel's faltering internet connection. The sole horror-themed hotel in the area becomes far more real than the two ever could have imagined.
After indulging the owners' fake horror novelties designed to scare guests, the two men stumble on a hidden passage that leads them to the basement where they uncover a ghastly collection of skeletal remains. Once Gus convinces a deceased soldier's spirit to exit a possessed satellite-jamming device called the Ellexatron, the hotel's internet signal is fully restored.
3 The Shadow Of The Moon - Episode 8 - 7.5/10
In the series finale, The Truth Seekers split up to quash Toynbee's evil mission. Astrid and Elton venture off to shut down the Ellexatron, while Gus and Helen disrupt the nanobots by sneaking into the power grid.
When Helen is trapped by a nanobot and Astrid sent is sent into the Ellexatron, Gus and Elton do their best to save them. Astrid defeats Elara inside the device but remains trapped in the ethereal realm. The others work wonders to defeat Toynbee, who turns out to be a minion of supernatural beings Jojo74 and David (Simon Pegg).
2 The Hinckley Boy - Episode 7 - 7.5/10
Gus confirms that Elton is really The Hinckley Boy, the most haunted youth in England. He also learns that his real name is Lionel Ritchie, not Elton John.
The jokes are swapped for terror when Gus takes Elton to his old house to exorcise his demonic possession. Toynbee's nefarious plot becomes to channel all the lost souls for a cataclysmic event, using 6G and the nanobot technology to help him ascend to Eternis. Astrid also learns a life-altering secret about herself from her mother's ghost.
1 The Revenge Of The Chichester Widow - Episode 6 - 7.5/10
The trio is called to install Wi-Fi at an accursed asylum in which a woman named Mary Colford was executed for murdering a dozen men in 1868. Using bodycams, they plan to live-stream their installation.
Things get hairy when Gus stumbles on a toy that has trapped Mary's malefic spirit. Mary pleads with Gus to free her tortured soul, but before he can do so, Mary uses her evil powers to make the new owner of the asylum commit suicide. Alas, the signal in the basement was too weak to stream the incident live.