Bodies
2023
Original language: English
- crime
- mystery
- sci-fi & fantasy
- drama
The story
One victim, found dead on a London street. Four detectives, in four different time periods, must solve the mystery to protect Britain's future.
What it’s like
Cold, grey London light and dense, wet streets dominate this series, with the four timelines each given their own colour temperature: sodium-orange 1941 wartime nights, flat clinical blues in 1890s police stations, washed-out 1980s beige, and a sleek, rain-slicked near-future. Camera work tends toward handheld urgency in the chase and procedural scenes, while quieter moments linger on faces in interiors lit by lamps and fluorescent strips. The score is pulsing and synthetic, with sudden silences where the timelines break. The vibe is bleak, paranoid and layered, a tense conspiracy thriller with a cool, grim edge. It suits a focused evening rather than background viewing, since the timeline jumps reward attention. Violence is regular and sometimes brutal, including shootings, beatings and deaths on screen, and there is some sexual content and drug use. The emotional register is melancholic and driven, following detectives who carry personal losses and slowly open up to one another across time. It is for viewers who enjoy intricate time-travel puzzles, grim British crime, and queer characters at the centre of a dark, ambitious story.
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