'Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue's Trailer Presents 10 Passports

Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue has set an ambitious premiere date for its debut on MGM+, arriving the first Sunday in March, dead smack in the middle of every network's big premiere window to get the most Emmy love for their broadcast. It's obvious why parent company Amazon Studios would choose that calendar position: there's a real sense this limited series could be the best show yet to air on the little-watched network. Moreover, Amazon execs see the series (and its well-known author, Anthony Horowitz) as an Emmy vote-getter. At this point, the streaming service is desperate to get any attention in the drama or limited series categories, having been beaten to the punch now not just by Disnay+/Hulu but Apple TV+, Max, Netflix, Peacock, and Paramount+ besides.

Every time I write about MGM+, it may seem like I yell about how badly undermarketed and overlooked it is. Listen, I don't pick on MGM+ and Amazon Prime Video because I am a person full of hate; I pick on them because I know they could be so much better than they are. Amazon legitimately treats its streaming services like cheap dollar theaters off the giant global flea market half-filled with fake products. (And then they wonder why Emmy voters think its shows are unworthy of awards.) 

Writing about shows like Nine Bodies and Rogue Heroes irritates me more than most, because these aren't aggressively mid at best, unlike other MGM+ series such as Belgravia or The Winter King. They are shows that ought to be massive cultural moments, with performances worthy of viewer attention, which they would get if they were on Netflix, Disney+, or even PBS.

But they're not, so they'll go unnoticed when everyone should be tuning in for this 21st-century take on the Agatha Christie classic formula.

Here's the limited series' synopsis:

In the six-part series, a plane carrying a small group of passengers, crew and pilot, crashes in the Mexican jungle. All the bodies are recovered and placed in a morgue…but it turns out that only one of them died in the crash. The other passengers were murdered afterwards, each one in a unique way. But by whom? And why? As the story unfolds in flashback, we meet the survivors as they fight against the heat, a shortage of supplies, the many dangers of the jungle…and each other. The setting becomes increasingly tense and claustrophobic as, one by one, they are dispatched with a series of shocks that bring us ever closer to the truth and – at the very end – a jaw-dropping reveal.

The flight's manifest of international characters starts with British and Irish actors David Ajala (Star Trek: Discovery) as Zack, Siobhán McSweeney (Derry Girls) as Lisa, Peter Gadiot (Yellowjackets) as Carlos, Adam Long (Happy Valley) as Dan, and Jan Le (D.I. Ray) as Amy. Also part of the ill-fated flight: American actors Eric McCormick (Will & Grace) as Kevin and Lydia Wilson (The Swarm) as Sonja, Spanish actors Oscar Foronda (The Crown) as Revueltas and Horacio Colomé (The Tribe) as the Radio Operator, and Icelandic actor Ólafur Darri Ólafsson (The Tourist) as Travis.

Anthony Horowitz (Moonflower Murders) created and wrote all six episodes of Nine Bodies. Directors Viviane Andereggen (Tatort) and Brian O'Malley (Alex Rider) split helming duties. Horowitz also executive produces the series with Jill Green and Eve Gutierrez for Eleventh Hour Films, a Sony Pictures Television-backed company.

Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue will premiere on MGM+ on Sunday, March 2, 2025, and stream with weekly episodes through mid-April.