Have you ever felt like crime dramas tell the same story over and over again? Well, a new show starring Stephen Graham will do just that by design.
He stars in Bodies, a new Netflix crime thriller about the same murder that occurs multiple times over 150 years, which is based on the 2015 graphic novel of the same name by Si Spencer.
Creator: Paul Tomalin
Stars: Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, Shira Haas, Amaka Okafor
The brief look at the series jumps between time zones as multiple police forces and detectives fight to solve the murder of a man who continues to be murdered throughout the story. Here's your first look.
The plot of Bodies is unique, uniting four detectives spanning 150 years to solve the same murder case. Now, this is not a cold case that has been unsolved for over a century. No, it's the same person murdered multiple times.
In the 1890s, against the backdrop of Jack the Ripper London, detective Edmond Hillinghead stumbles upon a murder that no one wants to solve but which turns out to be bigger than he could have imagined. Then, in the 1940s, an adventurer named Charles Whiteman stumbles upon a similarly eerie scene amidst the remains of the Blitz in London. In the 2010s, a detective named Sahara Hasan comes across an unidentified body, and in 2050, in a post-apocalyptic world, Maplewood encounters a ritual murder and seeks to shed light on the century-long conspiracy.
Stephen Graham leads the cast, although not much is known about the character he plays, Elias Mannix, other than he is central to the plot.
As for the various detectives, Shira Haas from Netflix's Unorthodox will play future cop Maplewood, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd from The Queen's Gambit will play DS Whiteman, Amaka Okafor from The Sandman will take on the role of DS Hasan and Kyle Soller, known primarily for his theater roles, will play DI Hillinghead. It's (almost) exclusively a Netflix family affair.
The cast is also completed by Tom Mothersdale, Michael Jibson, Derek Riddel, Emily Barber and Gabriel Howell, playing a younger version of Stephen Graham.
The series is being produced by the same team as Peaky Blinders, reuniting with Graham, who played Hayden Stagg in the crime drama. The show is also written by Paul Tomalin, who wrote No Offense and Torchwood.
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