Creatures of Habit review: a London actor and three clients who bite

An agency for the undead

Dating advice for the immortal is a business waiting to be invented, and Creatures of Habit invents it. A discreet London matchmaking agency serves clients of the night, and its newest hire is an out-of-work actor whose job is to be the practice date.

The joke arrives at once: practice implies rehearsal, and three clients refuse to stop rehearsing. Episode 1 is free on Dreamy Shorts, and you do not need an account to see how the agency begins.

A man and three clients

Nobody can be chatted with on this platform, so these are simply roles. The actor is the straight man, employed to be pleasant and soon outnumbered. The clients are a vampire, a ghost and a succubus, each with an entirely different idea of what a good evening involves.

The titles hint at a running order of rules and hours: Permission, The Whole Night, Midnight to One, The Diet, Comparing Notes, Until Sunrise. Permission as episode 1 sets the tone nicely: consent as comedy, not afterthought.

Fangs, giggles and a closed door

Dreamy shelves it as A Hint of Magic and Fantasy. The set-up leans comic, with heat arriving as flirtation and mischief rather than anything heavy. A cold hand, a long look from across the table, an appointment that overruns; the series is happier winking than shouting.

The door shuts when it should, and what follows is for the platform to show.

Why it reaches three and a half

Our stars come from platform facts, not from judging acting or picture. Free runway gets 4, with two of six episodes free, and the short run of six, a manageable evening, earns the same for finishing ease.

Spotlight sits at 3, since neither home-page row features it. Altogether that is 3.5 stars, third of twelve in our own order on the Dreamy shelf. Pilot length is unrecorded here, so that mark is absent. Read more at How we rate.

What you pay

Registering costs nothing and opens the second episode, while the remaining four ask for Premium at the price OurDream displays. See Free Episodes and Pricing.

Who it suits, and your next watch

It suits viewers who liked supernatural sitcoms and wish more of them were a minute long. Those who want grim horror will find it too light.

For a darker night, What the Night Keeps keeps the ghost and drops the jokes. Stranded: The Heiress and the Cook swaps London for an island, and Common Ground is a snowbound feud. On Candy AI, Dragon Queen's Dark Desire goes fantasy with scales, and on Secrets AI, Doctors Orders is a comedy about a patient and a nurse. Every other review of the platform hangs together in the Dreamy Shorts section.