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- Netflix
- May 9, 2024
- Netflix
- May 9, 2024
Summary American podcaster Gilbert (Will Forte), researcher Emmy (Robyn Cara) and investigative journalist Dove (Siobhán Cullen) look into three disappearances that occurred 21 years ago in the Irish town of Bodkin in the dark comedy thriller created by Jez Scharf.
Created By: Jez Scharf
- Netflix
- May 9, 2024
- Netflix
- May 9, 2024
Summary American podcaster Gilbert (Will Forte), researcher Emmy (Robyn Cara) and investigative journalist Dove (Siobhán Cullen) look into three disappearances that occurred 21 years ago in the Irish town of Bodkin in the dark comedy thriller created by Jez Scharf.
Created By: Jez Scharf
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
58
38% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
56% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
6% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
It expertly crafts a riveting mystery but also fleshes out its central – and supporting – characters. A series like this hinges on the chemistry of the show’s cast, and thankfully, each and every player gives it their all.
Bodkin is, by and large, a fun time that doesn’t reinvent the wheel but continues the trend of darkly funny and mysterious true crime stories.
That Oscar winner [Martin McDonagh] juggles humor and tragedy expertly, while this Higher Grounds Production (the Obamas production company) drops the ball occasionally on both. You won’t care since it’s the three central characters and the actors who portray them that pick them up and put them back up in the air and keep us engaged.
It gains in pace, charm (and in dead bodies) and that first hour turns out to be an investment worth making.
The series is a tricky balance of tones and ideas that works at some times, but not at others. And its own interest in the mystery of what happened that night of the Samhain festival comes and goes. But many of the performers do interesting and appealing work.
It’s not effective true crime, nor is it an effective censure of true crime. It’s somewhere in between, and that doesn’t really serve anyone. The true-crime genre certainly has its pitfalls, but it deserves sharper analysis than this.
Plot points, including a mysterious death partway through, are lazily explained away. Heinous acts don’t match up with the characters who supposedly committed them. Identities are discovered and then go unexplored. With shoddy plotting and chaotic pacing, Bodkin falls far short of the thought-provoking satire that it aims for.
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