Tomalin is also exec producing with Kreutzpaintner and Moonage Founders Will Gould and Frith Tiplady. The series producer is Susie Liggat who worked on the BBC-Netflix co-production, Giri/Haji. First I need to point out this groovy cover - great right? Draws the eye, it's pin-up, pulp, fun, and blood splattered. 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.

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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 ] Sadly, Si, who was from Sheffield, died in February 2021, just months before his 60th birthday. As well as working as an author, Si also worked as a scriptwriter, working on Grange Hill, EastEnders and The Bill. Basically the collection (8 series joined together in one edition) jumps frequently between four different detectives in London over four time periods. Edmond Hillinghead in the 1890s, Karl Whiteman in the 1940s, Shahara Hasan in 2014, and Maplewood in 2050. Each detective finds a dead body, a weird symbol, and frequent lines said to them, "You are loved." 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!He knew a lot of people. Simon was friendly and approachable – and he was very supportive of other artists and writers. I know he was a mentor figure for some up-and-coming artists. He was well-known for being very inventive with his writing.” 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. Netflix’s Bodies will likely continue in the same vein, as a very stylized project, in the hands of director Marco Kreutzpaintner who is known for 2018’s thriller Beat as well as the sci-fi romance, Soulmates, from 2020. Also directing is Doctor Who’s Haolu Wang, a Chinese writer and director whose intensely psychological and emotional works include the award-winning The Pregnant Ground from 2019. Writers for the series include Torchwood’s Paul Tomalin (who is also an executive producer for the show) along with Gangs of London’s Danusia Samal. Each character is tasked with investigating the murder of an unknown man found in Longharvest Lane with similarities cropping up for each. Besides the identical victim in each era, a double h symbol “HH” appears for them all and phrases like “Know You Are Loved” are repeated.

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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. Coming to Netflix globally in October 2023 is a thrilling epic crime series called Bodies, an adaptation of the 2015 graphic novel of the same name by Si Spencer. Bodies tells the story of four detectives in four different London eras who find themselves investigating the same murder, uncovering a conspiracy that spans 150 years.So what I ended up doing was going through the plethora of internet interviews he’d done about Bodies, so I got to kind of know him better just through research about the stuff he’d said and the seeds he’s left just through references.’ I think the double H could be a reference to double helix which is the term given to double-stranded molecules like DNA. This ties into our bodies but also the main theme of the book: what makes up our national character. I should say this is a very British comic as Spencer seems to be focusing specifically on multiculturalism and cultural identity in Britain through his characters. The Vinyl Underground #1–12 (with Simon Gane and Cameron Stewart, ongoing series, Vertigo, December 2007 – November 2008) collected as: urn:lcp:bodies0000spen:epub:6c3e4fcb-c913-442d-acb7-3915cbafe4f2 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier bodies0000spen Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s2d09q8gdg6 Invoice 1652 Isbn 9781401252755 Lccn 2015006320 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-1-g862e Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Japanese Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.3257 Ocr_module_version 0.0.15 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-1200365 Openlibrary_edition 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.

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Si Spencer sadly passed away from heart failure in February 2021, just before his 60th birthday. At the time of his death, a close friend paid tribute and said: “He would’ve been 60 this August. He was one of the good ones. It was fun to be around him. He was a really intelligent, generous and compassionate man. Netflix has just released a new hotly anticipated drama starring Stephen Graham. Bodies is set across four time periods, and the first episode of the show is dedicated to man called Si Spencer. DNF! Din't like the art, dind't like the story. Well, I liked the part from 2014, but the rest was frankly just boring and the art made my head hurt! Damn you nice cover! Terrence Howard and Dolph Lundgren have a Showdown At The Grand in the UK trailer for the new 80s action-movie homageLONDON, 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…

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In the closing moments of the show, Shahara was chatting to her cab driver about the future of London and saying that she felt the city was on the precipice of change. It was then revealed that Iris Maplewood, the detective from 2053, was her driver and knew her by name! Shahara was able to play this record to young Elias just in time to stop him from detonating the bomb as he realised that he would only be killing hundreds of thousands of people for nothing. This effectively closed the time loop as Elias never killed all those people and, therefore never returned to the past to become his own great-great-grandfather, so therefore he never existed. The phrase "Know you are loved" is said throughout, in every period. Where does that come from? Somebody tell me!! I assume it is something commonplace that I just don't know. I like intertextual clues-y books, I teach English, but I had no idea here. Satanic Farces" (with co-author Gordon Rennie and art by Dean Ormston, in Judge Dredd Megazine (vol. 3) #4–7, 1995) 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 :(Royal expert Jennie Bond had some inside info about who may and may not be getting invited to the royal Christmas traditions this year Four detectives, four different eras, one murder victim, same MO, same location - appearing to each detective. Who killed John Bull? Starring Stephen Graham, Amaka Okafor and Shira Haas, Bodies is a police drama with a twist, as it's set across four different time periods: 1890, 1941, 2023 and 2053. When a body is found - the same body - by one detective from each period, they begin to discover the investigations are linked, and must somehow uncover what really happened over the course of 150 years.