Netflix's Time Traveling Crime Drama 'Bodies' Set to Premiere in October

Mystery series are old hat to British TV fans. After all, the Brits have essentially made an art form out of the genre, whether it's a series based on classic literature or one that sees an individual with a completely inappropriate background (priest, professor, restaurant owner) suddenly take up solving crimes as a hobby. But a very different kind of mystery series is coming to Netflix this October with Bodies, a decidedly time-wimey spin on the traditional police procedural that sees a murder victim mysteriously reappear across multiple eras.

Based on the graphic novel by Si Spencer, the story follows four different police detectives from four different time periods who each find a dead body in the Whitechapel neighborhood of East London. But what sets the series' premise apart from other crime dramas is --- it's the same dead body, reappearing across time over 150 years.

Initially set in present-day London, Detective Sergeant Shahara Hasan discovers a naked body in the aftermath of a protest. But as she attempts to solve the mystery of the man's death, her search for the truth parallels three other investigations across multiple timelines --- in 1890, 1941, and 2053 --- each involving different detectives but the same victim. As the four detectives attempt to solve the case, they unravel a mystery that could put hundreds of thousands of lives at stake.