Bodies creator ‘reluctant’ to return for second season of Netflix drama

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Bodies showrunner Paul Tomalin is reluctant to bring the show back for a second season on Netflix.

The streamer’s gripping new mystery thriller follows four detectives in different timelines, spanning from the late 19th Century to the near future.

Each of the detectives is somehow investigating the same dead body in London, an impossible clue to a vast conspiracy across the decades.

Speaking exclusively to Express.co.uk, Tomalin said that, while a follow-up mystery is certainly a possibility, it’s unlikely to happen unless season one is incredibly successful.

“When you’ve got such an amazing concept – that Si Spencer, the graphic novel’s author, came up with – I think you do the audience a disservice if you don’t answer it, in some way, shape or form,” he explained.

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“As a viewer, I can’t stand it when somebody has a bangarang concept right up front and then you think, ‘Oh man, they’re gonna push this out for five seasons if they’re lucky enough’.”

Netflix already has several limited series under its belt, such as Beef, Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, The Fall of the House of Usher and the upcoming All the Light We Cannot See, to just name some recent examples.

However, plenty of its programming has also found surprise success and has been renewed for second and third instalments.

Although Tomalin isn’t ruling out that outcome, he originally pitched Bodies as just one eight-part story.

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“We really went to Netflix going, ‘Okay, we’re not going to rule out a second season, but in terms of what this sets up, we end it’,” he recalled. “So it’s a limited series.

“If it’s a huge success, who knows? But, whatever it is, you get the ending to the story that you’re signing up for on this one.

“Which is a rare privilege, because normally you’re told to avoid endings.

“But with this… it’s a one-and-done. With a dot dot dot…”

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The Netflix drama is based on Spencer’s limited run of eight issues that began in 2014.

He sadly died in 2021 at the age of 59, and no follow-ups to Bodies were ever published.

This means any future instalments of the Netflix adaptation would have to invent a brand new narrative, so season two is still a long way off even if the streamer does want the mystery to continue.

Bodies is available to stream on Netflix.

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