Popular Reviews of Blake Skye

This is a great show with a lot of twist, drama, and laughs. A great cast of characters and voices. A deep exploration of the world from different interesting perspectives. It’s very good

I'm always so excited to get a new episode. Fantastically written, fantastically acted, can't wait to see where the story goes!

Admittedly? I'm biased, because I'm in this show. Blake Skye: Private Eye was my gateway first to voice acting, then to scripting and editing, and it will always have a special place in my heart.With all that said: this show has serious heart. Despite what it may look like at a glance (hard-boiled detective, down on his luck, narrating his woes to an inanimate object over a near-empty bottle of gutrot whiskey) the truth is that there's never truly a moment where this show doesn't have a sense of humour about what it is. Yes, Blake monologues to nobody (well, unless you count Webster) for no apparent reason, and you can't help but ask yourself, "why?" Neither can the other characters. They also can't stop themselves from asking themselves, each other, and Blake "why?" and the answer is, "this man is terribly dramatic and sometimes we suspect he might've gone into P.I. work for the drama and mystique of it all." BS:PI is a show that starts small and isolated and blooms into a vibrant narrative populated by a growing cast of distinctive characters, some of whom can't seem to prevent themselves from meddling with things beyond mortal ken. If the lonely man telling stories to himself in the first couple episodes isn't hitting the spot for you, do yourself a favour and stick it out a little longer. Blake Skye: Private Eye will take you places you never would've expected in episode one.

Noir with a heart. BSPI has all the comfortable tropes you'd expect but populates the world with real characters that go beyond the stereotypes. Throw in a few supernatural twists, and you've got a story you'll want to see to the end.Also notable is how generous this show is in giving new creative talent a chance to play in their world. The only question I have is: was it *really* necessary to have the character of Daphne Howard be voiced by an AI?

The narration, I just can't get over it. The person is trying to make their voice raspy and the sound quality is not good.

This show knows exactly what it is, and what it wants to be, and just runs full-tilt toward being that. And it's wonderful.There's narration in keeping with the Noir inspiration, raspy voice and all. Dialog that channels a more self-conscious Sam Spade. Characters that have their roots in stock tropes, before branching out into authentic-feeling people. Music and sound effects that bring it all together. The show takes a few episodes to find its feet, and decide what it's going to do, but once it does, it NAILS it. In addition to the core storyline, there are multiple other stories by different writers/directors that branch off, and twist around it, and add depth to the setting and characters. The world building is meticulous and coherent across the lines, with the other authors bringing their voices to it.Recommend if you like classic detective stories, Lovecraftian-feeling horrors, characters with superiority complexes, genre-savvy storytelling that isn't 4th-wall breaking. (Full disclosure-- I am a writer behind one of the side storylines. After I finished listening to everything that had been made, I needed more. So....)