Sheesh, "Don't Make Love Between Men Into A Weird Grim Obsessive Thing Every Single Bloody Time Challenge 2023".
Looking at you, #Bodies ...
Also, this "Rabbi"s lines were totally written by some Christian...
Aaaannnnddd the woman main character, when shoved into a storeroom by a bad guy, just yells HELP and then sits there all night waiting for a man to come and let her out. Seriously?
"Oooh, the bad guy's said that I'm going to be instrumental in a huge bomb going off today! And he's left me a key! I think I'll go and find out what it opens, and open it! What could go wrong??" #Bodies
"Now the bad guy who wants to destroy London with a huge bomb says that I need to go to a certain place and talk to a certain person. I'd better do that!" #Bodies
The aging prosthetics aren't amazing, either. Old Amaka Okafor is just as hot (okay, that's arguably realistic) and Old Stephen Graham looks like he's wearing an oldness-mask.
I am, however, interested that it's episode 6.5 of eight, and they've apparently already broken the time-loop! So that could be fun, we'll see...
They seem to be waffling a bit in the direction of "the people involved *remember* having been around the loop before", which is an interesting take. But they aren't all-in on it. Yet?
GOOD LORD THIS IS SLOW-MOVING!
I kind of see what they're doing, but I'm not convinced it wouldn't have been better as say a 90-120 minute movie... #bodies
(Using different actors for young Polly and old Polly was certainly a better decision!)
I like the subtle 2053 London accents, too, assuming I'm not imagining it. #bodies
I do eagerly await the explanation of how traveling through time gives you a distinctive wrist tattoo... #bodies
I'm also afraid that we aren't going to find out why the good guy got split into 3+ parts, but the bad guy didn't. (Or didn't so far?) #bodies
(I do feel like someone from 1890 and someone from 2053 might have a bit more of a language / accent problem than this.)
(I was afraid for a second there that they were going to break the loop by giving the bad guy Erectile Dysfunction...)
Hm, well, okay, that did have an ending! Not awful, but...
Made from a comic book -- I mean graphic novel -- does rather check out.
Which is to say, if you'd spent like an hour reading it in graphic form, it would have been fun and visually appealing.
But as an eight hour miniseries, there are, well, a number of things that are just left hanging and/or don't make sense to the extent that you'd expect them to in a more primarily (what?) textual piece.
Something like that.
Oh, they were just playing with us in an ordinary sort of way back at 6.5, weren't they? #bodies