Sheesh, "Don't Make Love Between Men Into A Weird Grim Obsessive Thing Every Single Bloody Time Challenge 2023".
Looking at you, #Bodies ...
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?
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?
Oh, they were just playing with us in an ordinary sort of way back at 6.5, weren't they? #bodies
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
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.
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.