The new British limited series, Bodies premiered in October on Netflix and is more than just a crime series. The genre-bending show is a mix of mystery, crime, thriller, sci-fi, and period drama spanning four different time periods. The 8-episode series stars Jacob Fortune-Lloyd (The Queen’s Gambit), Shira Haas (Unorthodox), Amaka Okafor (The Split), Kyle Soller (Poldark), Greta Scacchi (Run Rabbit Run), Stephen Graham (Boiling Point), Michael Jibson (The Essex Serpent), and Tom Mothersdale (Culprits).
Based on the graphic novel by Si Spencer, Bodies follows the same body found on Longharvest Lane in London’s East End in 1890, 1941, 2023 and 2053 and one detective from each period must investigate. As connections are drawn across the decades, the detectives soon discover their investigations are linked.
If you’re looking for more shows like Bodies to check out next, we have 10 recommendations for you below.
12 Monkeys (2015-2018)
Cast: Aaron Stanford, Amanda Schull, Kirk Acevedo, Noah Bean, Todd Stashwick, Emily Hampshire, Barbara Sukowa, Tom Noonan, Demore Barnes, Alisen Down, Ramon De Ocampo, Romina D’Ugo
Synopsis: “Follows the journey of a time traveler from the post-apocalyptic future who appears in present day on a mission to locate and eradicate the source of a deadly plague that will nearly destroy the human race.”
Where to watch: Hulu
The Alienist (2018-2020)
Cast: Daniel Brühl, Dakota Fanning, Luke Evans, Brian Geraghty, Robert Ray Wisdom, Douglas Smith, Matthew Shear, Q’orianka Kilcher
Synopsis: “Newly appointed police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt, criminal psychology Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, New York Times illustrator John Moore and Sara Howard, a headstrong secretary determined to become the city’s first female police detective, set out to find and apprehend one of New York City’s first serial killers.”
Where to watch: Max, Spectrum
The Chestnut Man (2021 miniseries)
Cast: Danica Curcic, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, David Dencik, Iben Dorner, Lars Ranthe, Esben Dalgaard Anderssen, Liva Forsberg, Louis Næss-Schmidt, Ali Kazim
Synopsis: “At a grisly murder scene sits a figurine made of chestnuts. From this creepy clue, two detectives hunt a killer linked to a politician’s missing child.”
Where to watch: Netflix
Dark (2017-2020)
Cast: Louis Hofmann, Lisa Vicari, Gina Stiebitz, Oliver Masucci, Maja Schöne, Antje Traue, Andreas Pietschmann, Julika Jenkins, Max Schimmelpfennig, Moritz Jahn, Karoline Eichhorn, Jördis Triebel, Deborah Kaufmann
Synopsis: “A missing child sets four families on a frantic hunt for answers. Their search for a culprit unearths a small town’s sins and secrets.”
Where to watch: Netflix
Dear Child (2023 miniseries)
Cast: Kim Riedle, Hans Löw, Naila Schuberth, Sammy Schrein, Justus von Dohnányi, Julika Jenkins, Haley Louise Jones
Synopsis: “Escaping captivity in a basement, a young girl and her unconscious mother are found at the site of a car accident. But the regained freedom offers neither salvation nor security.”
Where to watch: Netflix
Sleeping Dog (2023 – )
Cast: Max Riemelt, Luise von Finckh, Carlo Ljubek, Antonio Wannek, Melodie Wakivuamina, Peri Baumeister, Tara Corrigan, Tara Corrigan, Helgi Schmid, Martin Wuttke
Synopsis: “A former detective now living on the streets searches for the truth after a new death raises unnerving doubts about a supposedly settled murder case.”
Where to watch: Netflix
Stay Close (2021 miniseries)
Cast: Cush Jumbo, James Nesbitt, Richard Armitage, Sarah Parish, Eddie Izzard, Jo Joyner, Daniel Francis
Synopsis: “When Carlton Flynn vanishes 17 years to the night after Stewart Green did, it sets off a chain reaction in the lives of people connected to both men.”
Where to watch: Netflix
True Detective Season 1 (2014)
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson, Michelle Monaghan, Michael Potts, Tory Kittles
Synopsis: “True Detective focuses on Martin Hart (Woody Harrelson) and “Rust” Cohle (Matthew McConaughey), two detectives and former partners who worked in Louisiana’s Criminal Investigation Division in the mid-1990s. In 2012, for reasons not immediately revealed, the two are interviewed separately by investigators about their most notorious case: the macabre 1995 murder of a prostitute by a possible serial killer with disturbing occult leanings.”
Where to watch: Max, Spectrum
Twin Peaks (1990-1991)
Cast: Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Ontkean, Mädchen Amick, Dana Ashbrook, Richard Beymer, Lara Flynn Boyle, Sherilyn Fenn, Warren Frost, Peggy Lipton, James Marshall, Everett McGill, Joan Chen, Ray Wise
Synopsis: “An idiosyncratic FBI agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more idiosyncratic town of Twin Peaks.”
Where to watch: Paramount+
The Valhalla Murders (2019-2020)
Cast: Nína Dögg Filippusdóttir, Björn Thors, Bergur Ebbi, Sigurður Skúlason, Bergur Ebbi Benediktsson, Tinna Hrafnsdóttir, Edda Björgvinsdóttir
Synopsis: “An Oslo detective with a painful past returns to his native Iceland to help a dedicated cop hunt a serial killer with a link to a mysterious photo.”
Where to watch: Netflix
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