Once the kids are undercover, that's when the show seems to find its footing. Toward the end of the second episode, the kids go undercover as students at the Institute, with the mission to discover the source of the signals. It's all the work of some nefarious force adding subliminal messages to TV and radio broadcasts, originating from a shadowy island boarding school called the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened.
RELATED: Everything Coming to Disney+ July 2021 As he progresses past nearly every other child involved, it becomes clear that this is not an academic admissions exam. The test that Reynie participates in is strange and seemingly arbitrary. Perumal (Gia Sandhu), who encourages him to apply to a prestigious boarding school. The first episode focuses mainly on Reynie Muldoon (Mystic Inscho), an orphan whose prodigious intelligence makes him an outcast. RELATED: The Mysterious Benedict Society Sets Off on a Mission in New Trailer Veteran comedy stars Tony Hale and Kristen Schaal are clearly having fun with their roles as mentors to the central kid characters, but there's never any question that those kids are the real stars.
The Mysterious Benedict Society is kid-friendly, but not immature (likely due to the series originally being developed for Hulu, not Disney+) and cute without becoming cloying. Even if the show's plot is slow to get started, the characters and visual style are charming - a junior version of the aesthetics and themes found in Wes Anderson and Tim Burton's work.
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