Mysteries can be complicated but not as hard to follow as this one, which starts out promisingly enough.
Robyn Cara as Emmy Sizergh, Siobhán Cullen as Dove and Will Forte as Gilbert Power in “Bodkin.” True crime podcasts are enough of a phenomenon that they’ve become a premise for scripted, fictional TV shows. Following on the heels of and “Truth Be Told” , we can add “Bodkin,” a seven-episode thriller on Netflix about a trio who arrive in the sleepy Irish town of the title to investigate the disappearance of three strangers who went missing 20 years earlier.
The show isn’t a satire so much as a misty, murky thriller that has some decent sardonic energy driving it. There’s a running joke every time they explain the podcast to someone new: “And people will listen to it?” comes the amused if dubious reply. The show also pokes fun at cliches about Ireland’s beauty while also capturing said beauty. “Is it raining? I can’t tell,” Gilberts asks at one point. “It’s just sort of a wet breeze?” Emmy wonders.
As they make the rounds, they run into plenty of resistance. “Let the past go,” someone implores. “It’s done nothing to you.” Tempers explode, corpses are found in the trunk of a car and money is stapled to a man’s forehead . But the mystery of who went missing, and why, is too shaggy, too convoluted and meandering, to make any kind of sense or keep you locked in. Mysteries should be complicated but not hard to follow.
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