As part of Fox’s continuing experiment in what happens if you feed a TV programmer a triple-anchovy pizza around midnight, then have him drift off to sleep while reading a James Ellroy novel, we now have the network’s second-oddest crime-fighting team of the television season: Harry Houdini and Arthur Conan Doyle. Pitting a magician and a detective writer against supernatural criminals in post-Victorian London may be slightly less outlandish than teaming a gorgeous homicide cop and Satan in millennial L.A., as Fox does in Lucifer, but only slightly.
Pairing Houdini with Doyle is not quite as random as it might seem if you aren’t familiar with their biographies, and the show may even be said to draw on some shallow historic roots, in roughly the same degree that Springtime for Hitler is drawn from The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich. Television critic Glenn Garvin explains.
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