Netflix's Bodies boss shares disappointing season 2 update
Bodies writer Paul Tomalin has shared a disappointing update about the prospect of a second season.
Following its premiere on Netflix, Tomalin spoke to Hello! about the time-bending police drama, revealing that he'd initially written the series to be self-contained.
"We went to Netflix like, 'This is one series, this is a one and done, we wanna close this off', because I think when you have such an amazing concept up front, you [expletive] your audience off if you don't solve it," he said.
"As the viewer, I hate it when you get this amazing thing. And at the end it's like, 'Duh, duh, duh', and you're like 'Right so I've got to wait a year and a half'."
The eight-part follows four different detectives from four different time periods investigating the same murder in London across a 150-year time period, in a mind-bending saga which centres around Stephen Graham's character Elias Mannix.
Alongside Graham, the series also stars Jacob Fortune-Lloyd (The Queen's Gambit), Kyle Soller (Andor), Amaka Okafor (The Responder) and Shira Haas (Unorthodox).
While Tomalin didn't rule out the prospect of a second season entirely, he added that he didn't want to leave viewers with unanswered questions.
"We really wanted you to feel that you'd seen the red curtain at the end," he explained.
"That being said, when you see the back end, there's certainly a dot dot dot. But the premise that the show sets comes to an end."
Okafor recently spoke to Digital Spy about the show's ending, revealing she would love to return should the opportunity arise.
"They told us it's a limited series. But if I was telling my deepest heart's desire, I would love to play her again," the actress said of her character DS Hasan.
"I love her. She's like the best character I've ever had."
All episodes of Bodies are available to stream now on Netflix.
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