The first season of the genre-bending murder mystery series, Bodies, on Netflix made its debut on the streaming service this past weekend. The series, based on the DC Vertigo series with the same title, has become a hit with fans. According to Comicbook, the writer of the show, Paul Tomalin (No Offence), spoke with Hello! In an interview revealing Bodies will not be returning to Netflix for a second season. Tomalin stated he would rather provide an ending that fans are happy with, as opposed to a cliffhanger leaving fans waiting for the next season.
The show is about four detectives who live in different eras in Whitechapel London, and find the same body of a murder victim. The detectives make another shocking discovery, their investigations are part of a puzzling conspiracy over 150 years old. The series has been given an 81% Tomatometer score and 74% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. The show stars Shira Hass (Shtisel) as DC Maplewood, Kyle Soller (Andor) as DI Hillinghead, Amaka Okafor (Greatest Days) as DS Hasan, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd (The Queen’s Gambit) as DS Whiteman, and Stephen Graham (Matilda) as Elias Mannix. Written by Si Spencer (Life During Wartime), and first published in 2014, Bodies was a limited series graphic novel with eight issues which ran until 2015. Via Comicbook, in an interview with Cosmopolitan UK, Tomalin said of the novel and Spencer, “I didn’t know him well, but he knew it was brilliant, too, There was never any thought to change the characters because they were so well thought out, so we really broke our backs to make sure we kept that… We’d often go back to the graphic novel as our road map when we got lost in filming, too.”
All episodes of the first season of Bodies are available to watch on Netflix.
Below is the official trailer for the show.