Bodies (TV Mini Series) 'We Are One Another's Ghosts' (2023) User Reviews

'We Are One Another's Ghosts'

[Prismark10 · 7/10 · 2 November 2023]

By the fifth episode Bodies is a four dimensional mystery. It is also the case of you cannot trust anyone.

Julian Harker spawned a devout cult back in the Victorian era. He died in 1941 presumably by the hand of Charles Whiteman torn by the death of Esther by one of Harker's follower.

In 2023 Shahara Hasan learns more about Elias, his role in detonating a bomb that will shape the future.

The key is Iris Maplewood as Gabriel Defoe shows how the Deutsch particle caused time travel, even possibly splintering people in different timelines. That is how Mannix got back to 1890 and posed as Harker.

The older Shahara appears before Iris but she views Shahara all the others as terrorists.

The weak part of the episode is finding just who you cannot trust. Most of the superiors Charles, Alfred, Shahara are in contact with.

The strong part was the central mystery coming together and the time travel adds more layers to this.

The Grand Plan--I Guess

[Hitchcoc · 9/10 · 9 December 2023]

I agree with the previous writer whose concern was distinguishing the good guys from the bad. Elias, who was treated badly but also with kindness at times by Hasan, turns out to be a negative force. He creates the phonograph record that is pivotal in all this. Those whose motives are pure seem to have enough baggage to be vulnerable. I'm waiting for those setup photographs of Harker's to surface to extort cooperation and deflect blame. Once again, the rich seem to have all the power and fear is at the center of so much. The death of the little girl is quite sad. She was a dynamo and the relationship she had with Whiteman was doomed, apparently.

More stalling and giant hair dryers

[dierregi · 3/10 · 1 January 2024]

Even my favorite 1941 time line is going the way of the others, meaning stalling to expand this show to 8 episodes (when 6 or even 4 would have sufficed).

My favorite character Charles (AKA Karl Weissman) gets hold of Polly, who's nonetheless than Hillinghead's daughter, only to go through a stupid Russian roulette gimmick so that Polly can be saved.

In the 2053 time line, teeny tiny Maplewood is suitably bewildered when an older Motherly Detective appears as head of the rebels. Maplewood fights with all her strength and, with a little help from her friends, even succeed against the rebels, after having been exposed to the Throat, a Time Machine that looks like a giant infrared hair dryer.

I forgot what happens to Hillinghead and in the 2023 time line Motherly Detective rolls her eyes wide open, when she meets Sarah Mannix, Elias' biological mum and when she discovers who Elias' father is (hint... think about the only white male who's not Harker/Mannix. Seriously, what are the chances?)

I just don't get the record playing device. Why don't they convert the old recording to digital? Too difficult? But they have a Time Machine and stuff... whatever.