Truth Seekers

Jim Field Smith

Amazon Prime Video

COMEDY duo Simon Pegg and Nick Frost have specialised at writing and starring in movies ( Shaun of the Dead, The World’s End ) that stir together warm, beautifully drawn British comedy and classic horror themes. Their latest outing, a TV series called Truth Seekers , arises from that same delightful tradition.

The truth seekers of the title are a gang who rove around England investigating the paranormal. Given that, I queried with my editors at New Scientist why I …