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So I have to tell you about this Netflix crime drama time travel sci fi show called Bodies, in which four detectives from different time periods all discover the same dead body.
To be clear, this is neither a rec nor an anti-rec. I have no ability to judge this show, nor any real self-insight into whether I liked it or not. I simply know that I must talk about it or I will explode.
Without spoiling past the trailer and first few scenes with each lead, our four detectives are:
1890: Closeted Queer Victorian Detective: I think this show is straight tv by and for straight people, so I have no idea if his sexuality or internal conflict about it are meant to be gradual reveals, but you and I, my friends, will recognise from the first ten seconds that CQVD has been painted by numbers and all those numbers want to fuck men.
1941: Corrupt Blitz Jewish Detective: We meet CBJD as he is being baselessly and antisemitically accused of corruption by A Bad Man whose only justification for suspicion is that he's Jewish. In a win for diversity, it immediately turns out he is corrupt, thus bravely breaking down barriers for 1941 Jews everywhere.
2023: Single Mum Emotionally Intelligent Muslim Detective: Our entry character into this world, and probably the character whose various identities and worlds have been given the most genuine thought. Enough genuine thought? Obviously not. But I'm pretty sure she's the writers' favourite character, which is nice.
2053: Disabled Cyborg(?) Totalitarian State Detective: I don't want to tell you too much about 2053, because much of that gets revealed over a longer stretch of the show, but I didn't want you to worry even for a second that she wouldn't have a time-period-specific minoritised identity that caused conflict between her different loyalties and duties.
I kind of love them all? And also cannot believe that they sustained my attention for eight hour-long episodes? And also want to feed them all soup? And also cannot in good conscience recommend this show to anyone?
Here are some of my favourite bits of the show, where I really have to stress that favourite does not necessarily mean good. They are spoilery for different developments along the way, but not for the overall plot.
( Faves )
And here, my friends, is the overall plot. I would not read this if you're thinking of watching the show, but also I don't want to deny you if you're quite wisely planning not to:
(NB This is not the plot in the order the show gives it to us - one of my favourite actually-good things about the show is how well-paced many of its reveals are.)
( The whole plot )
To be clear, this is neither a rec nor an anti-rec. I have no ability to judge this show, nor any real self-insight into whether I liked it or not. I simply know that I must talk about it or I will explode.
Without spoiling past the trailer and first few scenes with each lead, our four detectives are:
1890: Closeted Queer Victorian Detective: I think this show is straight tv by and for straight people, so I have no idea if his sexuality or internal conflict about it are meant to be gradual reveals, but you and I, my friends, will recognise from the first ten seconds that CQVD has been painted by numbers and all those numbers want to fuck men.
1941: Corrupt Blitz Jewish Detective: We meet CBJD as he is being baselessly and antisemitically accused of corruption by A Bad Man whose only justification for suspicion is that he's Jewish. In a win for diversity, it immediately turns out he is corrupt, thus bravely breaking down barriers for 1941 Jews everywhere.
2023: Single Mum Emotionally Intelligent Muslim Detective: Our entry character into this world, and probably the character whose various identities and worlds have been given the most genuine thought. Enough genuine thought? Obviously not. But I'm pretty sure she's the writers' favourite character, which is nice.
2053: Disabled Cyborg(?) Totalitarian State Detective: I don't want to tell you too much about 2053, because much of that gets revealed over a longer stretch of the show, but I didn't want you to worry even for a second that she wouldn't have a time-period-specific minoritised identity that caused conflict between her different loyalties and duties.
I kind of love them all? And also cannot believe that they sustained my attention for eight hour-long episodes? And also want to feed them all soup? And also cannot in good conscience recommend this show to anyone?
Here are some of my favourite bits of the show, where I really have to stress that favourite does not necessarily mean good. They are spoilery for different developments along the way, but not for the overall plot.
( Faves )
And here, my friends, is the overall plot. I would not read this if you're thinking of watching the show, but also I don't want to deny you if you're quite wisely planning not to:
(NB This is not the plot in the order the show gives it to us - one of my favourite actually-good things about the show is how well-paced many of its reveals are.)
( The whole plot )
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