There was no room for error, says Majdoub. Panto and Silas’ crazy chemistry is evident even before they lock lips, and their portrayers say this chemistry is the result of excellent writing, smart casting, and their own engaged collaboration.
Panto wields a sling shot, a yoyo, and a scissor sword in fact, he’s the greatest scissor swordsman in his realm (“Silas had a sling shot, a scissor sword, and probably didn’t know how to use either,” concedes Majdoub. It has everything to do with life and death and their values and their morals, and I thought that was really touching, too: to hear that people were getting affected in that way, even in the first episode where it was one scene.”Īnd because we’re talking about Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, there’s also weirdness, hilarity, and surrealism mixed in with the yearning and romance.
“They could have the characters out on a quest and it has nothing to do with their sexuality. “After the first episode, I remember seeing a post where someone said that they had been out for some time, but even having been out, they never realized that, as a gay community, they could have the greatest swordsman in the land, and they could have the star-crossed lovers,” says Majdoub.
Majdoub was profoundly moved when he began to hear how Panto and Silas’ love story was affecting viewers. The thing keeping them apart is their families being at war with each other, not the fact that they can’t let their families know that they love each other because they’re both men. What excited fans from the get-go, says Russell, was the fact that Panto and Silas were clearly in love, and that it “really is the first openly gay relationship in a fantasy world where them being gay isn’t a thing. The final episode of the season is one day away fans still don’t know whether Panto and Silas end up together (although, on interview day, it all looks rather bleak).īut the journey of the season has been otherwise joyful for Majdoub, Russell, and Panto/Silas ’shippers. It’s December 15: roughly two months since the second season premiered on BBC America. He’s seated next to Majdoub at a table outside of a Vancouver coffee shop. “The fans, just based on the trailer, became very excited about our characters,” says Russell. The Dengdamors and the Trosts are at war, but Silas and Panto clearly are not, because the clip culminates with a passionate kiss between them, after which Silas implores Panto to “ our world.
Silas Dengdamor (Lee Majdoub) and his bodyguard Wygar Oak (Aleks Paunovic) encounter Panto Trost (Christopher Russell) after a skirmish. The clip introduces a trio of men who live in a magical realm called Wendimoor. The clip featured the first two minutes of the second season, and while it didn’t reveal much about the fate of the titular holistic detective or his cohorts (who had mostly been separated in the season one cliffhanger by a nefarious wing of the CIA), it did get tongues wagging and hearts pounding. Warning: this article contains spoilers about the second season of Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agencyįans of Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency had been eagerly awaiting hints about the show’s second season when New York City Comic-Con rolled around the first week of October – and that’s where producers came through with an eyeful: the first episode of the season in its entirety.Ī short clip was quickly shared by Deadline, and it set the fandom atwitter on Twitter.