Bodies

I wasn't sure what to expect when I first started Bodies. The reviews were mostly good but the only actor I recognized was Stephen Graham so I thought how good could it be? Well, it was pretty damn good as was the entire cast. It's a time travel series that reminded me of Dark but easier to follow along. It's about four different detectives, in four different time periods, all investigating the exact same murder. It may start a little slow for some but stay with it because I promise it picks up. The best thing about it is it doesn't end with some cliffhanger, it has a very satisfying ending. If you enjoy sci-fi and time travel then give this a try. You won't be disappointed.

As a weaving of four stories this works well. The sets are great and even the thirty years into the future thread wasn't too out there.

There are a few good characters, some good light and shade and some that develop nicely as the series progresses.

Everything starts with a body being discovered in a lane in London and develops with four different time lines, Victorian, World War Two, present day and thirty years into the future. At first there is a lovely kind of what-is-going-on feel to the story, but come the middle of it, you realise that it's just the same thing that's been done so many times in so many other sci-fi programmes and films that it becomes more and more disappointing and eventually so incredibly and sadly predictable.

People found too many loopholes, problems etc. But what I don't understand is the generations passed from 1941-2023, THEY(For spoiler alerts...no names mentioned 😉) kept feeding stories to the people through recordings and THERE WAS NO ONE SANE ENOUGH TO QUESTION IT OR IGNORE IT!! Everyone followed THEM!!

Creators should have made this as a movie or a series with less episodes maybe 6. I THINK they stretched a little bit. In every episode they will not tell what's going on and for me it was frustrating. Every character kept saying you won't understand!! (So why are you telling the other person). For example Elias asked Hasan to be in the interrogation room so that he can share something but he never shared anything. It was exasperating!!!

They kept all explanations for the last episode!!! I have watched a similar show on Netflix called Dark which is SOMEWHAT similar to this show.

I liked the cast especially young Polly and every main character is given a proper screen time. The story is little bit slow in the middle but it picks up later!! One time watch!! Pretty decent show!! Liked it!!

Hokum but I enjoyed it all except the WWII London police car sirens which weren't fitted until 1963 when they also introduced the blue flashing beacons. They just had bells but like all science fiction fans I do tend to be obsessively pedantic. I was prepared to accept all the other minor errors but those police car bells are a sound of those times which transport me back in time which the film makers missed. I suspect that those not liking science fiction will find the plot difficult to follow and the continual time shifts confusing but the production isn't made for non science fiction fans so if this isn't your style, don't bother struggling with the plot. :-)

Initially, I was 'only' a little interested because it was kind of slow to start AND I knew next to nothing about it except that a friend had recommended it. We have very similar tastes in shows, so I trusted them, obviously.

Anyway, I was hooked by about halfway through the first episode but I didn't realise HOW hooked I was until the episode ended and I went straight to the next rather than to bed like I should have.

The core conceit may not be anything new (most time-travel-hijinks movies and shows seem to stick to the same two or three ideas for some reason) but the cast, and the way the story unfolds, is just REALLY well done, especially Gabriel Howell as young Elias in the 'now' timeline. He's really only kind of an afterthought for most of the show but he absolutely comes into his own at the end, and absolutely steals the entire series in his relatively short but powerful spotlight moments. That being said, the rest of the cast are equally good, especially Amaka Okafor and Jacob Fortune-Lloyd as DS Hasan and DS Whiteman respectively.

A small part of me wants more of this, because it was so well done, but that small part is an idiot because 'more' would likely ruin it since they told a complete story. I guess I just want more of each of the cast?