WARNING! Spoilers for Truth Seekers season 1 ahead.
Here's what the ending of Truth Seekers season 1 really means. Simon Pegg and Nick Frost's new team-up project concluded with several twists and unanswered questions that left fans wondering what will happen to the paranormal investigators in the future of the series.
The horror-comedy was co-created by Pegg and Frost, who are, of course, known for their comedic take on the zombie apocalypse in Shaun Of The Dead. In recent years, the subgenre has reached new heights of popularity with Netflix originals such as The Babysitter as well as its follow-up, The Babysitter: Killer Queen. The early-2000s is considered one of the greatest periods for horror comedies, especially parody franchises, but they quickly grew stale by over-saturating the market with predictable jokes and situations. In the 2010s, several major releases marked the return of its popularity. For 2020, Pegg and Frost's Truth Seekers released at the perfect moment in horror-comedy history.
Truth Seekers stars Nick Frost as Gus, a paranormal investigator who works at an internet provider company and lives with his father-in-law Richard portrayed by A Clockwork Orange's Malcolm McDowell. When his boss Dave (Pegg) assigns him a brand new work partner, Samson Kayo's Elton John, the two join forces to uncover the truth of the supernatural with the help of Astrid (Emma D'Arcy), who is not who she claims to be. Season 1 left more than a couple of questions unanswered that could change everything for the characters in season 2.
During Truth Seekers season 1, episode 8, "The Shadow Of The Moon," Julian Barratt's Dr. Peter Toynbee attempted to ascend by offering the souls of the people who are implanted with his nanochips. When Gus, Astrid, and Elton John successfully connect 8G internet service to the location, his ritual is interrupted, leaving him dead and unlikely to return to the series. Along the way, Astrid, who has just revealed that she is a ghost, disappears after battling with a spirit that was helping Dr. Toynbee. With her sacrifice, the seekers of truth were able to walk away feeling as though they have successfully won the battle.
In the last several minutes of episode 8, the big reveal that Dave knows Jojo74 and may not be of this Earth left many wondering what and who he really is. As the two walk off screen, Astrid's face is shown in a painting above his desk and her voice calls out from it asking for help. While Pegg and Frost are known for horror comedies, they have also found great success in the realm of sci-fi with their 2011 movie Paul and 2013's The World's End and shift from ghosts to possible aliens could mean that these masters of genre comedy are merging their greatest strengths together for an otherworldly season 2.
One of the biggest reveals from Truth Seekers season 1 is that Astrid is not human and may be a ghost. There appears to be some confusion among the characters about what she could be, but they conclude that she has to be a spirit who has come back to the realm of the living. When Elton John and his sister Helen, portrayed by Susie Wokoma of Enola Holmes, were children, they were tormented by the spirit of her mother which led to him being harassed as a child and her becoming agoraphobic. Astrid and her mother are to blame for the siblings' torment. While the easy answer to what she is would be a ghost, but in all actuality, she may be an interdimensional being based on how Dave and Jojo74 speak of her.
The ghosts in Truth Seekers aren't the traditional specters that haunt the hallowed halls of churches or who hide in the darkest corners of Bly Manor. They are far more tech-savvy than any other ghost in the paranormal horror subgenre and most, if not all of them, are tethered to a piece of electronic equipment. The company Gus works for, SMYLE, is run by Dave who is pushing 8G internet speeds on everyone. While he may appear to be a man doing his job the best he can, the end reveals that he may have influenced everything that the truth seekers have done with Jojo74's single statement, "I'm sorry your precious Astrid crossed over." This means that she could still be a ghost but she could also be whatever Dave actually is, which seems to be an interdimensional being.
The finale establishes that Simon Pegg's Dave and Jojo74 know each other, but how? The two had conflicting goals throughout the entirety of season 1, yet when they come together, they discuss how similar their plans were. In fact, it appears as though the two were sent to Earth in order to ensure that Gus, Elton John, Susie, Astrid, and Richard would follow their destiny by defeating Dr. Toynbee. They are either aliens of some sort or from a completely different realm considering Dave's statement, "Never send a human to do a super-being's job." This could mean that they are gods, deities, aliens, ghosts, demons, or from an entirely different dimension. Regardless of what they are, they did stop Armageddon from happening, but were they just saving it for when they could ignite the fire that would rain down on the Earth? As their conversation alludes, they will bring upon the end of the world because Dr. Toynbee was a mistake and his infatuation with immortality stopped them from reaching their ultimate goal. Season 2 may find Dave and Jojo74 in a battle against the Truth Seekers.
In episode 3, "The Girl With All The Ghosts," Gus opens up the Draecepta Mortnorum. It is not entirely explained what this book is, but it can be assumed that it could be a form of Evil Dead's Necronomicon created by H.P. Lovecraft and used in movies such as Sam Raimi's iconic horror-comedy. After episode 3, it is not seen again but a page of it is. In episode 4, "The Incident at CovColCosCon," Dr. Peter Toynbee reads from a torn out page that is set in two-sided glass to keep it safe.
When he reads the page, it causes the audience to be hypnotized, which allows him to enter the crowd and inject nanobots into their eyes. Gus and Astrid later see a collective of people in dark hoods reading and praising the book. The page is a spell that is used to open up the doors between the living and the otherworldly in order to allow for Dr. Toynbee to acquire immortality and ascend. This is all explained throughout season 1, but the importance of the Draecepta Mortnorum is not as well as its role in future seasons. It is entirely plausible that it will play a hand in closing off the gates between the living and the dead, which have stayed open with the help of Elton John.
While season 2 has yet to be announced, there are so many unanswered questions and cliffhangers that there is a big possibility that it could receive the green light fairly soon. Truth Seekers season 2 must reveal what Dave and Jojo74 are as well as where Astrid went and what the Draecepta Mortnorum will do for the seekers of truth on the journey through the world of the paranormal.
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