Attention fans of the crime genre, but also of sophisticated sci-fi mind fucks, because today the British miniseries “Bodieson Netflix, in which a single murder case in a side street of London covers a period of more than 150 years (!). After the German hit series ‘Dark’ with its intertwined time levels, the streaming service delivers a new genre representative for guessing and puzzling, which is likely to cause headaches and high tension.
Series creator Paul Tomalin (“The Frankenstein Chronicles”), who serves as screenwriter, producer and showrunner, has adapted the Netflix original, based on the graphic novel of the same name by British comics artist Si Spencer, who died in 2021, which was published in eight volumes of 2014 to published in 2015. In eight episodes, Tomalin tells the story of ‘Bodies’ on Netflix, which is guaranteed to be complete – because it is a miniseries.
That’s what ‘Bodies’ on Netflix is about
In 2023 London, Detective Shahara Hasan (Amaka Okafor, known from the Take That musical “Greatest Days”) chases a teenager into a remote side street, where the naked body of a man suddenly appears with a mysterious tattoo on his forearm and a gunshot wound in the eye. She doesn’t know that Karl Whiteman (Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, ‘The Queen’s Gambit’) in 1941, Edmond Hillinghead (Kyle Soller, ‘Star Wars: Andor’) in 1890 and Iris Maplewood (Shira Haas, ‘Unorthodox’) have found or will find the exact same corpse with the same features in 2053.
Although at first glance the four researchers do not seem to have much in common, Everyone has to deal with the prejudices and problems that current events bring with them and yet remain essentially timeless: So Whiteman must survive as a Jew during the Second World War, while Hillinghead hides his sexuality and Maplewood weighs her health with loyalty to a totalitarian state.
Another constant throughout the eras is Stephen Graham (“Snatch”) as an enigmatic politician who seems connected to the events. Or is something even bigger going on here? We’re curious to see how the four timelines and the mysterious murder ultimately fit together. “Bodies” can be streamed starting today, October 19, 2023, with a subscription to Netflix.