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Positive:
7
Mixed:
10
Negative:
1
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Critic Reviews
The Daily BeastMay 9, 2024
Season 1 Review:
The series is a genuine two-hander; when Siobhan and Gilbert investigate together, Forte and Cullen’s chemistry and their mutual commitment to fleshing out their characters’ neuroses helps the show jump off the screen in ways its subdued style otherwise wouldn’t allow.
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ColliderMay 9, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Bodkin isn't as good as similar series, but it only gets better as each episode unfolds. It starts out with too many tropes and characters who don't always click, but by the end, it finds its way and sticks the landing with a finale that's both frightening and sweet.
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The Mercury NewsMay 15, 2024
Season 1 Review:
That Oscar winner [Martin McDonagh] juggles humor and tragedy expertly, while this Higher Grounds Production (the Obamas production company) drops the ball occasionally on both. You won’t care since it’s the three central characters and the actors who portray them that pick them up and put them back up in the air and keep us engaged.
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May 9, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Created by Jez Scharf, “Bodkin” represents a low-key addition to that slate, but still makes for a passable binge; still, what looks like a distinctive show gradually blends into its saturated genre – less a commentary on true-crime podcasts than a reminder that even with series that start out well, there’s not always a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
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May 28, 2024
Season 1 Review:
One of the big problems with “Bodkin” is that it hardly adds up to much. All of the investigation goes to some absurd places, and I don’t think that was intentional. And there are plot holes galore along the way. The denouement, incomplete and hard to believe, may test your patience.
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May 9, 2024
May 9, 2024
Season 1 Review:
I kept waiting for the series (from Jez Scharf, who is showrunner with Alex Metcalf) to find its narrative footing, but it lacks the kind of methodical unraveling needed to sustain interest. The cast of characters remain undeveloped beyond their surface-level tropes.
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May 8, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Superficially, “Bodkin” has all the makings of a treat — there are plenty of snazzy one-liners and touching reveries as well as some fresh and inventive violence. Many of its twists do work, and there is plenty to critique about the true-crime industry and its mawkishness. .... But as with many true-crime podcasts, all these evocative elements together amount to a story that is ultimately unsatisfying.
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The TimesMay 9, 2024
Season 1 Review:
The performances are good. Some are very good. The writer Jez Scharf’s script is fine and often witty. .... But little about the people or the events rings true. Not the plot, nor the dynamic between the three leading characters or any of the people they meet along the way. It feels too — what’s the word? — cartoonish, as if we were playing Irish cliché bingo.
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May 9, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Plot points, including a mysterious death partway through, are lazily explained away. Heinous acts don’t match up with the characters who supposedly committed them. Identities are discovered and then go unexplored. With shoddy plotting and chaotic pacing, Bodkin falls far short of the thought-provoking satire that it aims for.
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