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The Netflix series Bodies is a time travel mystery about four detectives in different time periods trying to solve the same murder. television writer Andrea Kail He was immediately captivated by the show’s intriguing premise.
“This came up on a list of upcoming shows on Netflix and I thought, ‘A detective show that’s also speculative fiction?’ Oh Lord. Hello, wheelhouse,’” says Kail in episode 558 of the geek guide to the galaxy podcast. “So I’ve been anticipating this for months.”
Bodies is based on a 2015 graphic novel by torch wood writer Spencer. geek guide to the galaxy host David Barr Kirtley was impressed by the way the showrunner Pablo Tomalin was able to adapt such an experimental and impressionistic graphic novel. “Paul Tomalin made the story much more conventional, almost entirely in a good way,” Kirtley says. “He took this really cool comic and put the stories together and made it make a lot more sense.”
fantasy author Erin Lindsey I enjoyed how Bodies keeps its focus squarely on the characters, unlike many time travel stories where the complexities of the plot threaten to overwhelm the story. “That whole (time travel) thing is just scaffolding, and I really love it,” Lindsey says. “It’s there just enough to intrigue and direct, but ultimately it’s four separate stories about four different people that are interesting in their own right, and that’s what I connect with personally.”
television producer Rory Carroll appreciate Bodies like a fun time travel yarn that won’t make your head spin. “You can think about it, but you can also let it wash over you, and that’s what I enjoyed,” she says. “I think this is designed to be a more enjoyable and entertaining program than some of the more difficult things like Dark.”
Listen to the full interview with Andrea Kail, Erin Lindsey and Ruairi Carroll in episode 558 of geek guide to the galaxy (above). And check out some highlights from the discussion below.
Erin Lindsey in multiple timelines:
They jump between these different timelines a lot. One thing they did that I thought was particularly clever was that they didn’t bring the future timeline into the equation until the end of the first episode. You think you’ve got it figured out: “Okay, we’ve got our Victorian detective, our World War II detective, and our modern detective, and we’re jumping back and forth between these three.” You start to feel comfortable and right at the end you say: “Welcome to the future. That?”
David Barr Kirtley on logical problems:
He had a long list of logical questions. In fact, on a second viewing, he half-heartedly addressed many of them. You will think: “Why didn’t they do this? Why didn’t they do that? And then at some point a character will say, “Oh, we just can’t do that. “We tried and it didn’t work.” It doesn’t really make logical sense why they couldn’t, but since they addressed it, I’m willing to give them half the credit for all of that. They anticipated all the objections and had a character say, “We can’t do that,” even though it’s very wavy.
Andrea Kail in Gabriel Howell and Kate Ashfield:
The two actors I thought were outstanding were the teenager who played Elias Mannix; I thought he was fantastic. The pain turned into anger and his eyes were very expressive. I thought he was great. And also the woman who played his adoptive mother. …She was the nice little housewife of the Regency of sanditon, where she is just sweet and everyone loves her. And she’s just a fucking lunatic about this. The scene where they interrogate her and she just loses her mind and says all that, “Ooh, I said too much” and bites her tongue. She was so good.
Ruairi Carroll in Bodies vs. Dark:
I thought Dark I was way over this, to be honest with you. I thought it looked better overall, everything about it… There was a lot more going on in Dark. There were three seasons. We had a lot of different timelines, we had multiple characters, there was a lot going on. And that was part of the fun, trying to keep up with it all. At the same time, I think I’d be more inclined to go back and rewatch this than Dark. It’s an easier watch. After spending three seasons of DarkI’d be like, “Oh wow, I don’t know if I can go through that again.”
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