Audiences’ thirst for true-crime tales during the last decade has led to a wave of satirical TV reveals, together with Only Murders in the Building, American Vandal, and Trial & Error. Netflix’s Bodkin is the newest sequence to throw down this gauntlet, promising a light-hearted critique of the entertainment-driven and exploitative true-crime style.
Bodkin follows investigative journalist and Dublin native Dove (Siobhán Cullen) as she joins forces with American podcaster Gilbert Energy (Will Forte) and his assistant, Emmy (Robyn Cara), to unravel a decades-old thriller involving three lacking folks within the Irish city of Bodkin in West Cork. Despatched to Bodkin in opposition to her will after a earlier case went bitter, the sequence finds the excruciatingly unlikeable Dove infuriated by her involvement with the podcast, which she sees as inane leisure. Embittered by a mysterious previous, she’s snobbish, impolite, and incompetent, consistently irritating the efforts of her comparatively inexperienced colleagues.
