Dirk Gently (Season 1)

Dirk Gently (2012) is a British BBC series you can watch online on iFILM, adapted from Douglas Adams' novels. Private detective Dirk Gently works on one foundational principle: everything in the universe is fundamentally interconnected, which means any random event is potentially evidence.

Stephen Mangan plays Dirk as a man congenitally incapable of self-doubt — unhurried, mildly insufferable, and correct in ways that don't quite follow. Hired to find a missing cat, he and reluctant sidekick Richard MacDuff end up chasing a trail through an exploded hangar, a vanished billionaire, and a device no one can explain. Director Tom Shankland holds the tone Adams established: the situations are ridiculous, everyone plays them completely straight. Stream Dirk Gently (2012) online on iFILM.