Paramount+'s For Heaven's Sake is a unique mashup of a comedy with a true-crime docuseries

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"It certainly helps that For Heaven’s Sake is led by a pair of people rather than a single amateur detective," says Steve Greene. "Mike Mildon and Jackson Rowe share the duty as the guides of an extended look into a longstanding family mystery, and they help to deflate some of the trickier tendencies that sometimes overtake true crime series like this Paramount+ entry in the genre. Almost from the outset, the two make it clear that their background is in comedy more than forensics. But that doesn’t stop For Heaven’s Sake from being as thorough as it can in looking for the truth behind the 1934 disappearance of Howard Heaven, Mike’s great-great-uncle. Over a period of at least a year, the two amateur sleuths make base camp in Mike’s hometown of Minden, Ontario, combing through anything they find and soliciting as much help from the residents of Haliburton County. As much as there’s an occasional irreverent tone here, For Heaven’s Sake is very much using the hallmarks of the genre in order to provide a framework for their search." ALSO: For Heaven's Sake directors spent 2-1/2 years on the docuseries.