The Netflix collection Bodies is a time journey thriller about 4 detectives in several time intervals trying to unravel the identical homicide. TV author Andrea Kail was instantly captivated by the present’s intriguing premise.

“This came up in a list of upcoming shows on Netflix, and I’m like, ‘A detective show that’s also speculative fiction? Oh my god. Hello, wheelhouse,’” Kail says in Episode 558 of the Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast. “So I was anticipating this for months.”

Bodies relies on a 2015 graphic novel by Torchwood author Si Spencer. Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy host David Barr Kirtley was impressed on the manner that showrunner Paul Tomalin was in a position to adapt such an experimental, impressionistic graphic novel. “Paul Tomalin made the story much more conventional—almost entirely in good ways,” Kirtley says. “He took this really trippy comic and tied the storylines together and made it make a lot more sense.”

Fantasy writer Erin Lindsey loved how Bodies retains its focus squarely on the characters, not like many time journey tales wherein the intricacies of the plot threaten to overwhelm the story. “All of that [time travel] stuff is just scaffolding, and I really love that about it,” Lindsey says. “It’s there enough to intrigue and to direct, but ultimately this is four separate stories about four different people that are all interesting in their own right, and that’s what I connect to, personally.”

TV producer Ruairi Carroll appreciates Bodies as a enjoyable time journey yarn that gained’t make your head spin. “You can think about this, but you can also let it kind of wash over you, and that’s what I enjoyed about it,” he says. “I think this is designed to be a more enjoyable, entertaining program than some of the harder stuff like Dark.”

Listen to the entire interview with Andrea Kail, Erin Lindsey, and Ruairi Carroll in Episode 558 of Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy (above). And try some highlights from the dialogue beneath.

Erin Lindsey on a number of timelines:

They do soar loads between these completely different timelines. One factor that they did that I believed was notably intelligent was they don’t drop the longer term timeline into the equation till the very finish of the primary episode. You suppose you’ve received it discovered: “OK we’ve got our Victorian detective, our Second World War detective, and our modern detective, and we’re jumping back and forth between these three.” You’re simply beginning to really feel snug, after which proper on the very finish it’s like, “Welcome to the future. What?”

David Barr Kirtley on logical issues:

I did have an extended checklist of logical questions. Actually on a second watch it semi-addressed a whole lot of them. You’re like, “Why didn’t they do this? Why didn’t they do that?” And then sooner or later a personality will say, “Oh, we just can’t do that. We tried and it didn’t work.” It doesn’t actually logically make sense why they couldn’t, however since they addressed it I’m keen to kind of give them half credit score for all that stuff. They anticipated all of the objections and had a personality say, “We can’t do that,” although it’s very hand-wavy.

Andrea Kail on Gabriel Howell and Kate Ashfield:

The two actors that I believed have been excellent have been {the teenager} taking part in Elias Mannix—I believed he was implausible. The ache turning into anger, and his eyes have been so expressive. I believed he was nice. And additionally the lady who performed his adoptive mom. … She was the good little Regency housewife from Sanditon, the place she’s simply candy and everybody loves her. And she’s only a fucking lunatic on this. The scene the place she’s being questioned and she or he simply loses her shit and does that entire, “Ooh, I said too much,” and bites her tongue off. She was so good.

Ruairi Carroll on Bodies vs. Dark:

I believed Dark was manner above this, to be trustworthy with you. I believed total it appeared higher, every part about it … There was much more occurring in Dark. There have been three seasons. We had what number of completely different timelines, we had a number of characters, there was loads occurring. And that was a part of the enjoyable, making an attempt to maintain observe of all of it. At the identical time I feel I’d be extra inclined to return and rewatch this than Dark. It’s a better watch. After sitting via three seasons of Dark, I’d be like, “Oh wow, I don’t know if I can put myself through that again.”

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