A reunion of Nick Frost and Simon Pegg—stars of the beloved comedy hybrids “Shaun of the Dead,” “Hot Fuzz,” and “The World’s End”—should produce abundant joy, especially given the promising concept of Amazon’s “Truth Seekers” to once again blend humor with another genre. And yet this 8-episode comedy is a shocking misfire, a deadly dull affair that feels much longer than even its 4-hour total runtime and produces an unbelievably small number of actual laughs and thrills.

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On the whole, the British comedy movie hasn’t been in the best state lately. The nation that produced Ealing films, Monty Python and “Withnail & I” is mostly down to putting out various ropey TV spin-offs (“The Inbetweeners,” “David Brent: Life On The Road,” “Absolutely Fabulous” et al), and seemingly endless number of films where Maggie Smith or a similar national treasure is withering to somebody.

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