Bodies, Netflix (not the hospital drama)

[KimberleyClark]

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

A bit surprised no one has mentioned the Victorian journalist - I thought he was lovely looking, and the relationship was really well portrayed. Also can’t believe the other actor is American - his accent was impeccable.

And they said in the same interview that the didn’t want to tie up everything neatly, hence not explaining the Iris in Victorian cell ending.

I've not RTFT in case of spoilers but I'm on episode 2 and I absolutely love this so far

It was a bit of a chore to watch
Got to Ep5 and was losing the will to live but stuck with it
And really wished I hadn't bothered
I love Stephen Graham but totally miscast in this
His Wife supposedly chooses his roles for him, she dropped a right clanger with this one

On Ep 2. Enjoying so far. But Nefkix subtitles are bloody awful. Why are they so poor?

He was my favourite and I did find him quite nice to look at ( a tad skinny ) oh sorry i thought you meant the policeman.
Jorno was buff

He was lovely!

Thanks for the thread OP, we just watched the first one and really enjoyed it, looking forward to the next one. Avoiding reading the whole thread as I don’t want any spoilers!

I’ve just finished and enjoyed it.

I’ve got questions though. How did 2023 Elias who was witnessed setting off the bomb not end up in prison?
My assumption is that the KYAL cult got him out somehow, and I’m guessing he made his fortune and influence in the same way as he did in the 1800s.
There are other questions but I’ve forgotten them.

As for the 2050s detective and her accent, accents are changing. It was on the news the other day, genuine cockney has almost vanished, compare the way the late Queen spoke as compared to William and Harry. Someone who has grown up in London surrounded by different nationalities might well have a different accent to someone today.

I obviously missed something but why did Mannix / Polly want Esther to die?

She witnessed the body dropping in the alley and saw Mannix there.

The 3 bodied physicist explained in his 2053 lecture that his discovery about how particles could split was impossible but they nevertheless did. Thus apparent doppelgangers and different time periods. It's only fiction. It doesn't have to make sense in the real world. Liked it a lot regardless of any faults.

Thanks @IAmtheVampiresWife

Just finished. I wasn't bothered about the first episode, thought it was plodding. But now I see it was purely the set-up. The more complex the time lines got the more I enjoyed it and the last episode where the ramifications move through time I really enjoyed.
Definitely a few implausibles - Sarah had a record player! Lucky. (Mind you we've got one...) And perhaps wisely we skimmed over Shahara finding clothes (shades of Termjnator!)
I liked the hint of a possible second series at the end.
I did loathe adult Mannix. I just find the actor very very creepy. The boy Elias was very good though. And the girl who played Esther is up there with Bella Ramsey.

She was brilliant wasn't she? Such an expressive face. Too many child actors these days look like perfect little adults - she was very believable as a rough and tumble East End street kid.

We finished it last night. DH and I agreed the part we found completely unbelievable was Hillinghead and the journalist. We found the time travel, cult and paradox of Mannix far more logical! However having seen it all, Hillinghead and journo was only way to explain his sacrifice setting things in motion. It felt forced and like a modern take on Victorian Britain.

Iris at the end made no sense. She was born years later surely?

However it was a compelling and enjoyable. Really good series.

Assume Iris had travelled back from 2053 to meet up with Sharah again, thereby setting up season 2?

I also assumed that Iris had travelled back again in the future to 2023. Would have liked to have known what happened to her after she talked with Hillinghead in the 1890’s.

But my main question is how do they specify the exact time to travel to using The Throat? It didn’t appear to be a Time Machine where you plug in a date. They just seemed to walk through it!

We liked it very much few niggles but one of the better things we watched recently and I agree boy Elias and the girl who played Esther were exceptionally good.

Iris at the end made no sense. She was born years later surely?

She time traveled back for some reason - for possible season 2 - it's why she was agreeing everything would kick off and how she knew Sharah's name.

The Throat did just seem to spit people out at set points on time loop rather than get programmed to set date.

The Throat did just seem to spit people out at set points on time loop rather than get programmed to set date.

That was my understanding of it but at one point Mannix instructs Defo to send him back to 1890 like he can program it in. And obviously 2050 Sharah specifically goes back to 2023 timeframe to look for clues in the pub. Which was another huge stretch by the way; that it would still be there after 80 years!!

It seemed to conclude in a rush I thought. Quite disappointing after all the episodes being so good.

That was my understanding of it but at one point Mannix instructs Defo to send him back to 1890 like he can program it in

I let that slide thinking it must be a paradox thing - they know that is when he went because he'd already done it - but you are right they didn't need to be that specific though that may have been to make it very clear to audience what was going on.

But I agree there were contrivances pub photos being in same place, pub being there and them all happening to find the same bricks in side bit of alley way again coincidences or time loop seeming to want certain events - but that's not that uncommon in any TV drama/stories.

Definitely a few implausibles - Sarah had a record player!

Yeeeees…..vinyls have made a comeback but they are still quite niche aren’t they.

I want a spinoff of Weismann and Esther in Inverness.
They were an adorable duo.

Loved the show, apart from the inexplicable casting of Stephen Graham. I usually love him but he can't do posh! His accent sounded more foreign than Iris' at times!
Also didn't look like young Elias and he had no chemistry whatsoever with Polly. In the initial loop, they clearly had a loving sexual relationship. He looked way older than her father! Really put me off.

Just finished this and didn’t really get into the whole time travel thing. What I did like was both the Hillinghead and Whiteman scenes, would love to see either character in a detective series in their time period. Solving crimes against a backdrop of homosexuality/homophobia or Whitemans story of being a non-religious Jew and antisemitism during his time. Maybe they could be alternate episodes following each character.

I know it was the main premise but I found that the whole Harker/Mannix story had way too many holes and wasn’t remotely interesting. Infact ‘know you are loved’ didn’t make any sense, did it? If it’s a second series set in the ‘future’ with more of the throat, I would give it a miss.