Netflix’s new Irish thriller produced by the Obamas is the series we deserve because it has everything: comedy, true crime and a touch of horror
It premiered on May 10, when we all had our eyes on the first part of the third season of ‘The Bridgertons’ that would arrive just six days later. But despite that he managed to be in the Top 10 most viewed on the platform in 51 countries for three weeks and with more than 53 million hours watched.
It has arisen at a time when we are talking about fever for true crimesomething that we could verify with the series by Candela Peña and Tristán Ulloa ‘The Asunta case’which has become one of the best releases of 2024. Using as a hook that genre that is now so fashionable, but from a different perspective, what is the first series produced by Barak and Michelle Obama: ‘Bodkin’.
‘Bodkin’, the miniseries to devour in an afternoon on Neflix
A journalist from Guardiana podcast host with a passion for true crime, and a junior filmmaker arrive in a small town near Cork, on the coast of Ireland, to investigate the mysterious disappearance of three strangers 25 years ago. They want to find the loose ends that will lead them to the truth, but as soon as they start pulling the thread they discover a story much stranger than they imagined. While they try to discern between reality and fiction, “the series challenges our perception of the truth and uncovers the stories we tell ourselves to justify our beliefs or ratify our fears,” Netflix says in the synopsis. And up to this point I can read, as Maira Gómez Kemp would say.
It reminds us of ‘Only murders in the building‘, the excellent Disney+ comedy with Selena Gomez who gets to talk about podcasts true crime without falling into clichés, but drawing on satire and black humor. This time The protagonists are Robyn Cara, Siobhan Cullen and Will Forteand rounding out the cast are Chris Walley, David Wilmot, Seán Óg Cairns, Peter Bankole, and Kerri McLean.
Directed by Jez Scharf, this fun miniseries also acts as a thriller in itself in which the classic investigation of the true crime and a pinch of folk horror, one of our favorite horror genres. A cocktail that works extremely well and is the reason why it has become an unexpected hit on Netflix.
This parody produced by Higher Ground, Barack and Michelle Obama’s audiovisual company, not only tells us about an unsolved mystery. It focuses on the characters and the dynamics between them, and As it only has seven episodes that do not last an hour, it is the perfect miniseries to devour in an afternoon silly.
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Photos | Bodkin (Netflix)
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