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London, 2023. It’s a special day for Shahara Hasan, since it’s her father’s birthday. The latter is a police officer and, on paper, on leave to celebrate her father. Bad luck, British public services are in crisis and the Londoner has been requisitioned by her superiors to stand out in a demonstration. Monkey cries, English flags and under-irrigated brains… She would have enough to kill a few racists, but she has orders not to intervene.
In an alley, however, she spots a young man of Asian origin armed with a pistol who manages to escape. What follows is a chase through Whitechapel, a multicultural neighborhood in the East End, to a courtyard. Near the fugitive, lies a corpse naked as a worm and equipped with two distinctive signs. A dark sign tattooed on his forearm and a wound on his left eye. The young armed man swears not to have killed him. This remains to be proven…
London, 1941. In the midst of the Blitz, the British capital regularly had bombs dropped on its heads by the Nazis. Charles Whiteman (Jacob Fortune-Lloyd – The Queen’s Gambit), a Jewish inspector, suffers the stupidity of certain members of his hierarchy. A phone call asks him to go to Whitechapel in the same alley as Shahara Hasan to collect a body. Charles complies. The policeman doesn’t know it, but we can see it. The body is naked and bears the stigmata of the previously mentioned dead man.
London, 1890. Whitechapel, we give it to you in a thousand, the same alley… Inspector Alfred Hillinghead (Kyle Soller) is called to the scene to discover a corpse positioned “as if it had fallen from the sky”. Around him, not a drop of blood, nor a witness. There was not a bullet or exit wound in the body of the deceased.
Finally, London, 2053. In a dystopian world, Sergeant Iris Maplewood (Shira Haas – Unorthodox) is called to an abandoned alley to find the same body as her colleagues from the past. Except that the man suddenly wakes up…
As complex as it is clear
This Dark mini-series (prohibited for those under 16) is produced by Susie Liggat (The Magdalene Sisters, Doctor Who, etc.), directed by the German Marco Kreuzpaintner (The Lazarus Project) and created by Paul Tomalin. The British showrunner was known for his screenwriting work on Torchwood (Doctor Who spin-off) and No Offense (by Paul Abott). Here, Tomalin attempts the ambitious challenge of adapting the eponymous graphic novel by Si Spencer published by DC Comics. And, therefore, to mix the two genres he likes: science fiction and police investigation.
Bodies is a success, because this plot with several drawers through time is complex, but the clarity of the writing and the efficiency of the production (notably thanks to split-screens) allow viewers to easily find their way around it. . Despite the length (8 x 50 minutes) the series is gripping, fresh and surprising. On the menu of this fiction with Stephen Graham (Snatch, Gangs of New York, The Irishman, The Chef): incessant twists and turns, successful villains, betrayals, espionage, spiritualism, threatening Phone Game calls, brilliant scientists, or even weird children who show up out of nowhere. If you want to watch this sci-fi thriller, remember this sentence: “Know that you are loved”.
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