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Bodies, Netflix (not the hospital drama)

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KimberleyClark · 21/10/2023 13:50

This is a crime/sci fi drama set in 4 different periods - 1890s, 1940s, late 2020s and 2050s. Quite intriguing. Anybody watching?

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IAmtheVampiresWife · 29/10/2023 02:06

Finished it tonight and it somewhat makes sense 😂but we have decided not to think too deeply about it 😂Glad we watched it though!

Kelta · 29/10/2023 04:15

It fails as soon as you introduce the “I’m you and also your own mother/grandfather/ great grandparent” concept. That’s just not even potentially possible. Dark fell apart for exactly the same reason (although Dark still remains the best series ever)

appreciate the irony of saying this in relation to a time travel programme..

SweetFemaleAttitude · 29/10/2023 05:37

titchy · 22/10/2023 14:48

Loving it so far.

Stephen Graham's accent is awful though (was in Venom too) - he cannot seem to lose the Scouser!

Because of his accent, I couldn't get past episode 2.

It's bloody awful.

I adore him and think he is an outstanding actor, but he can't lose his Scouse. Don't know if it's because I'm a scouser or what, but it's put me off watching it.

Wanderingowl · 29/10/2023 09:02

I'd have liked to have seen more about how London went from nuked to an authoritarian 'utopia' in 30 years. How did Elias, a crazed 15 year old driven to the point of desperate insanity, kill 600,000 people (the largest number given in the show). 200,000 of whom died horribly in the following months which would have been televised/seen online. Then go on to be both the architect and the figurehead of a new society.

Presumably the KYAL cult had been planning for it since the 1890s. But how the hell did they convince people that this kid could save society? You also have to kind of imagine the UK exists in a vacuum and that the UN, NATO, the US, the EU, the WEF, etc don't all step in and return everything to the status quo as soon as they could. It's kind of obvious that the whole, Elias creates a utopian society as a result of the big bomb, is nonsense. So instead of seeing what happens next after the bomb, we just go back to the 19th century and see what Elias does after he leaves the future he created. All stuff we didn't need to spend most of an episode on because we'd already inferred all of that from what we'd already seen. I think the whole show really ran out of speed there. It felt like treading water because they knew they couldn't actually get from 2023 to 2053.

RoyKentFanclub · 29/10/2023 09:09

SweetFemaleAttitude · 29/10/2023 05:37

Because of his accent, I couldn't get past episode 2.

It's bloody awful.

I adore him and think he is an outstanding actor, but he can't lose his Scouse. Don't know if it's because I'm a scouser or what, but it's put me off watching it.

What put us off is the Israeli actress who plays the future cop. Her accent was so bad, were we really supposed to think she was British? I kept thinking that they must be about to provide an explanation for the fact that she sounded completely different to her brother but no, they compounded the flaw by saying that she had been a baby in London when the bomb went off. It was really distracting and annoying.

Ginmonkeyagain · 29/10/2023 10:30

Yeah, I would have liked to see more of the future London.

All we got was hints - there were clearly winners and losers, Iris got the back implant that enabled her to walk because she joined the regime, whereas her brother refused so he didn't.

Some of London clearly hadn't recovered - the street in Whitechapel that linked the four time periods was overgrown and boarded up and the housing estates where the poor and dispossessed lived looked run down and abandoned by the authorities.

But Greenwich, just over the river from the blast zone, was the location of a shiny new prestigious university.

mizu · 29/10/2023 11:40

I sent a text to my sister last night saying I was on episode 6 and mind was a bit blown but just finished it all and, despite the slight ridiculousness of it, thoroughly enjoyed it.

Wanderingowl · 29/10/2023 11:42

But Greenwich, just over the river from the blast zone, was the location of a shiny new prestigious university.

We kind of get a clue about Greenwich, as 2053 Hasan says that her son didn't die in the blast but from radiation sickness in the aftermath. And he was in Deptford with the world's shittest evacuator. Who despite knowing that Jawad had been threatened and a man broke into their home, dithered around when Hasan called and told him to get out of London. Though to be fair to him, she had hours in which she could have called him and told him to leave, but even though she'd been told her son would die she took a long, long time to call her dad. When she does eventually get around to it, she told him to go stay with an aunt, when she'd have known that the route there would have skirted a similar radius of the bomb.

As soon as she listened to the record Mannix left her, which detailed exactly how the bombing would kill people, she should have called her dad and said, 'Hey, remember how some crazy people stalked and threatened Jawad. I need you to get him out of the city immediately. Don't stop for anyone as my boss seems to be in on it. And don't try to get through or around the centre. Just go north. Take the train if you don't feel like driving. Go hang out in Cheshunt or something. He'll be safe as long as you leave London, right now.'

And with that, I feel like i've given this all a lot more thought than the writers who just handwaved away how Jawad died when it would have been super easy for Hasan to ensure he didn't.

Gothambutnotahamster · 29/10/2023 12:08

Couldn't agree more @Wanderingowl - despite all that, I really enjoyed it and have been thinking about it a lot Grin

SummerWillow · 29/10/2023 18:30

I really enjoyed this, although somewhat puzzled at various points 🤣. Im glad others were also puzzled as DH took pleasure in telling me I was thick because I couldn't get my head round it.

Off to look into Dark and Utopia now!

Mooserp · 29/10/2023 20:54

I really enjoyed it and as others have said, the oldest 2 periods were great just by themselves. Those 2 detectives were great and I loved how it ended for them with their interactions with the photographer and Esther 😊

Traceyislivid · 29/10/2023 21:12

They Should have finished the series on episode 6. However, I persisted to the end and must admit, I did cry at the end! A lot of loose ends not tied up though. How come the 2053 detective was the same age in 2023????

NotSorry · 29/10/2023 21:12

We binged the whole lot this weekend as I was stuck at home with covid 🙄thought it was fantastic - although I always overthink time travel stories, I drive myself a bit mad working it all out

BoredAuditor · 29/10/2023 23:34

Traceyislivid · 29/10/2023 21:12

They Should have finished the series on episode 6. However, I persisted to the end and must admit, I did cry at the end! A lot of loose ends not tied up though. How come the 2053 detective was the same age in 2023????

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Maybe it wasn't Iris but Iris' mother..?

BoredAuditor · 29/10/2023 23:35

Really, really enjoyed it. Bit mind exploding but overall v different and fresh.

looking4pup · 30/10/2023 05:57

Traceyislivid · 29/10/2023 21:12

They Should have finished the series on episode 6. However, I persisted to the end and must admit, I did cry at the end! A lot of loose ends not tied up though. How come the 2053 detective was the same age in 2023????

Edited

Do you mean Hasan?

Gothambutnotahamster · 30/10/2023 07:49

I assumed they meant Iris at the end driving the taxi.

looking4pup · 30/10/2023 07:52

Oh forgot that bit.

It was obvious the driver was someone we had seen before as they didn't immediately show their face. Even when I saw the hands it didn't click.

I didn't like that ending.

Plus in 2023 would she physically be able to drive?

I didn't like that actress at all to be honest.

curlykate99 · 30/10/2023 10:04

Traceyislivid · 29/10/2023 21:12

They Should have finished the series on episode 6. However, I persisted to the end and must admit, I did cry at the end! A lot of loose ends not tied up though. How come the 2053 detective was the same age in 2023????

Edited

I think she travelled back to fix another future issue, presuming that this professor guy still invented the throat in the non-bomb timeline?

user73 · 30/10/2023 10:08

Yes there is no reason why the professor wouldn’t have invented the device even without the bomb going off. We’ll see, there’s clearly a plan for a second series. Just a shame that the worst casting decision will follow through to the next series. Her accent bugged me so much.

BoredAuditor · 30/10/2023 13:21

curlykate99 · 30/10/2023 10:04

I think she travelled back to fix another future issue, presuming that this professor guy still invented the throat in the non-bomb timeline?

Ah, that's a better theory than mine upthread and also gives room for a second series

Gothambutnotahamster · 30/10/2023 14:55

I agree @user73 - she really was a strange choice of actress and her accent was jarring and didn't fit with anything on screen.

She was great in Unorthodox but acted exactly the same way in this, which just wasn't appropriate at all.

Mooserp · 30/10/2023 15:17

I don't think the ending was meant to make sense - so you are left thinking, hang on - what's happened now?

Wanderingowl · 30/10/2023 18:07

Gothambutnotahamster · 30/10/2023 14:55

I agree @user73 - she really was a strange choice of actress and her accent was jarring and didn't fit with anything on screen.

She was great in Unorthodox but acted exactly the same way in this, which just wasn't appropriate at all.

In the comics, Maplewood's disability was mental in that she was amnesiac and couldn't form much in terms of short term memories. But 2050 was post apocalyptic due to a pulse wave that affected other people worse than her. I almost wonder if her character was cast before the 2050 timeline was completely reimagined and she was meant to be more "weird."

Gothambutnotahamster · 30/10/2023 21:09

Maybe @Wanderingowl - that would make sense.

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