Bodies

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Bodies was undoubtedly a slam dunk from Netflix who managed to hook viewers into this Sci-Fi crime thriller series that was slightly mind-boggling but ultimately a fantastic eight-episode limited series. In the final moments of the show, fans were delighted to see that the detectives on the case from four different times were able to successfully work together to close the time loop. Some of his other graphic novels include The Vinyl Underground with Simon Gane and Hellblazer: City of Demons with Sean Murphy. Spencer has also written for television. After winning a 'New Voices' competition with the play Tracey and Lewis, he secured a position at the BBC as script editor on prime-time cop show City Central. He later worked as a staff writer for the BBC's EastEnders and ITV's The Bill in addition to being storyliner and series editor and contributing scripts to Grange Hill. He was credited as script editor on the 2009 Aardman pilot for CBBC show Men in Coats.

Bodies (New Edition) by Si Spencer: 9781779526977 Bodies (New Edition) by Si Spencer: 9781779526977

There's no sense trying to do a proper review as thorough and insightful as Sam Quixote's, so read that, I'd say. I learned a lot, as usual, from him. Si Spencer’s Bodies is a story told in four parts with four different detectives solving the same crime over the course of 160 years. Each part is set in London but in different eras. I actually thought I had something good in my hands....not a bad start and could`ve been good to the end but....it was not long until I hated it :( the ambition itself. Spencer gets a point for that from me, if not from all of the Goodreads readers who absolutely HATED this comic as merely confusing and incoherent. It IS confusing, and it MAY be incoherent, I'm not yet sure.England and Englishness are central to Bodies - it's essentially a story of identity and culture. I don't think I'm giving too much away when I say that this not really a murder mystery at all, and the corpse, reappearing in the same location to different people at different times - people whose speech and thoughts carry occasional echoes of one another - has a symbolic significance to England. The officers are all investigating the murder of one unidentified male, found naked on a London street, killed by a single bullet to the eye but, mysteriously there’s no exit wound. At its core, it is a story about love and compassion, and about (author's) patriotism and love for England. In 2022, Netflix announced that a series based on Spencer's Vertigo series Bodies had been greenlit, with Moonage Pictures producing. [5] The series Bodies consisted of eight episodes and premiered on Netflix on 19 October 2023. [6] Bibliography [ edit ] As for Spencer, he was a long-time comic book writer and editor who has worked in both the British and American comics industry and often collaborated with fellow British comic book writer Dean Ormston. Spencer has worked on projects like The Vinyl Underground, Crisis, and more. He also contributed to Judge Dredd Magazine, writing for the executioner for several years and creating multiple spinoff characters.

Bodies Netflix Limited Series: October 2023 Release Bodies Netflix Limited Series: October 2023 Release

It has a great and intriguing concept, solid writing, beautiful artist collaboration (four different artists drawing each their separate story from different time periods in London: 1890, 1940, 2014-15 and some weird future), each artist doing great job. But most of all this story has heart.Bodies is a police procedural with a twist. When a body – the same body – is found on Longharvest Lane in London’s East End in 1890, 1941, 2023 and 2053, one detective from each period must investigate. LONDON, 2014. As racist rioters wreak havoc in the name of their prejudiced patriotism, Detective Sergeant Shahara Hasan leads the fight against them. As a Muslim cop, she’s English to the core. But the corpse she’s uncovered may reveal something rotten deep below the surface… The first inspector, the dedicated Edmond Hillinghead, investigates the murder of an unidentified male in the 1890s. His initial discovery of the crime is then followed by Inspector Charles Whiteman’s investigation in 1940 while the Blitz ravages London.

Bodies (New Edition) by Si Spencer, Phil Winslade, Tula Lotay Bodies (New Edition) by Si Spencer, Phil Winslade, Tula Lotay

The takeaway (and spoiler): The dead, grizzly corpse (aka John Bull) loves all merry old Englanders, whether they be gay, straight, Jewish, Muslim or a loon. Good to know and yay! Laura is a news writer for woman&home who primarily covers entertainment and celebrity news. Laura dabbles in lifestyle, royal, beauty, and fashion news, and loves to cover anything and everything to do with television and film. She is also passionate about feminism and equality and loves writing about gender issues and feminist literature. Based on the mind-bending graphic novel by Si Spencer, Bodies is a police procedural with a twist. When a body – the same body – is found on Longharvest Lane in London’s East End in 1890, 1941, 2023 and 2053, one detective from each period must investigate. As connections are drawn across the decades, the detectives soon discover their investigations are linked, and an enigmatic political leader – Elias Mannix ( Stephen Graham) – becomes increasingly central. Did he have a part to play in the murder? Or is something far more sinister at play? To solve the mystery, our four detectives must somehow collaborate and uncover a conspiracy spanning over 150 years. Stephen Graham’s 2023 thriller Bodies has just dropped on Netflix, following four detectives Hasan (Amaka Oskafor), Whiteman (Jacob Fortune-Lloyd), Hillinghead (Kyle Soller) and Maplewood (Shira Haas) with an unusual case.So essentially what that means is that the detectives did in fact successfully close the time loop and stopped the bomb killing people in London, but the producers wanted to leave a slight foot in the door in case they wanted to make a second season. Right, first of all, I don't recall ever having read a graphic novel before and know almost nothing about the form, so forgive me if I review Si Spencer's Bodies (originally released in eight episodes but now brought together in a single volume) in completely the wrong way: the last book I read that had speech bubbles was probably a Monster Fun annual so essentially I have no other graphic novels as a reference point.

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I wrote the pilot and he passed away just after the script was green-lit, so I was very much robbed of the chance to speak to him more about it. I feel like even giving this 2 stars is kind of generous. The description of this graphic novel is super intriguing - four murders that take place across four time periods being solved by four detectives that are all somehow connected. Unfortunately the murders/connection between these instances were just really confusing. I read on and finished Bodies not because I wanted to solve the mystery but because I just wanted the confusion to end. (It didn't). Si Spencer was a British comic book writer and TV dramatist and editor, with his work appearing in British comics such as Crisis, before he moved to the American comics industry. Bodies ending explained: Why did Iris Maplewood show up in the taxi in the final moments of the show?

MORE : You’ll never try office team building after watching Netflix’s ‘brutal’ Swedish slasher horror Ambitious, tense, explosive: this genre-blurring whodunnit travels time to visit four detectives investigating the same murder – in different eras. It’s exceptionally good value.” - The Guardian It's hard to describe the plot well since it's too confusing for my simple brain; plus this is catered more for the British audience. I think they'll get the cultural identity conflicts and connections stronger than I can. Ambitious, tense, explosive: this genre-blurring whodunnit travels time to visit four detectives investigating the same murder – in different eras. It’s exceptionally good value.”– The Guardian