Bodies: Official trailer
Bodies has been released on Netflix today (November 19) with all eight episodes streaming on the global platform now.
The show charts a mysterious crime which takes place in four different time periods: 1890, 1941, 2023 and 2053 and an extensive cast to match.
Netflix’s drama is highly reminiscent of the streamer’s other big sci-fi series Dark, which also has multiple timelines all interconnected by time travel.
Who was Si Spencer?
Episode one of Bodies ends with a title card dedicated to Si Spencer and many viewers are keen to know more about him.
Si Spencer was a comic book artist and a TV dramatist. His graphic novel of the same name also serves as the inspiration for the Netflix series Bodies.
The writer worked on Bodies with his frequent collaborator and artist Dean Ormston, along with Tula Lotay, Phil Winslade, Meghan Hetrick and Lee Loughridge.
The eight part limited series graphic novel was published between July 2014 and February 2015.
Spencer sadly died in February 2021 at the age of 59 from heart failure.
He was born in Sheffield and had an impressive career, writing comics for the Judge Dredd Megazine.
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The writer went on to create The Creep, which focused on a mass murderer who existed in the same universe as Judge Dredd.
Moreover, he also worked with DC Comics through their Vertigo imprint on Books of Magick: Life During Wartime in collaboration with Neil Gaiman.
He also worked across TV and in the 1990s served as a scriptwriter on Grange Hill, The Bill and EastEnders.
In the mid-2010s, Spencer published his graphic novel Klaxon and a six-part comic series Slash and Burn.
Spencer even wrote an episode of Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood.
Netflix confirmed in 2022 it had greenlit an adaptation of Bodies in 2022.
The show’s creator Paul Tomalin said of bringing the graphic novel to the screen: “Doing justice to author Si Spencer’s incredible premise was seriously daunting, and in the end we just had to throw our hearts and minds in wholesale and get freaky together, staying true to as many of the maddening tentpoles and spirit of the graphic novel as possible.
“With a show of this complexity, it was important not to get bogged down in fears of plot contradictions or ‘we can’t do thats!’, in the end it was the pulse of the story that defined our road map… Being on the other side of the show now feels like coming out of a three year trance.”
Bodies is streaming on Netflix now
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