Netflix Bodies Season 1 Ending Explained & Full Series Breakdown | Spoiler Review
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Take a mind-bending trip through time with the genre-smashing crime drama Bodies! This video will recap the twisty events of the series and analyze the perplexing questions left open by the finale's cryptic ending.
Detectives Shahara, Maplewood, Hillinghead and Whiteman span centuries investigating the same murder, uncovering a conspiracy across time orchestrated by the sinister Elias Mannix. How do their actions manipulating the past reshape the future? Did they break the loop Mannix created?
The appearance of Maplewood in 2023 hints that the temporal troubles may not be over. How and why did she travel through time? What are her motives? Does a threat still lurk across the timelines?
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I love the tidbit that doesn't really mean anything but when Maplewood first goes near the throat, Defoe says 'Everyone throws up the first time'. When Mannix goes near it to travel to 1890, he doesn't throw up and maybe I'm imagining it but the look of realization on Maplewood's face made the turning point evident.
Such a small detail of Mannix not getting sick ends up being a clever bit of foreshadowing. It hints early on that he has greater knowledge and experience with time travel than the others, and causes Maplewood to see him differently. Smart subtle writing choices like this really enrich the storytelling!
My theory for the ending : we hear maplewood address her concerns that if they were to destroy manix then her reality will no longer exist. She willingly goes into the past knowing her current state will die in the past. How ever what if she had a plan all along to copy exactly what manix done to ensure her own survival. She directly copied what manix done and used her own existence to ensure her own survival in the future. Maplewood is now in her own constant time loop. Hence why 2023 maplewood knows about shahara?
That can't really be valid because all the timelines where reset. So when Elias didn't detonate the bomb, Iris never went to the past, and the time machine was never invented.
That’s a valid point , but then you can also argue how did manix know to create a family that would ensure his survival before the loop even started does that make sense ?
Or maybe because the world with manix in was THE way of the world, when that time line was destroyed the world naturally found its self somewhat similar to manixes.
It’s hard topic to discuss when it comes to time lines. There’s a million possibilities ! I hope the director gives a clear explanation some day.
@@TheNobody_podcast It is mind bending really. Would love for an explanation one day.
Here's my question - If Elias is his own ancestor, then how would he have ever come into existence in the first place to take part in the version of reality containing the time loop upon which the entire series was based?
Thanks for the comment! Elias Mannix being his own ancestor does present a logical paradox. There are a few potential explanations:
1. Bootstrap Paradox - Mannix has no true origin point. He exists because of an internally consistent time loop where cause and effect are looped. This is similar to how information can exist without an origin in a bootstrap paradox.
2. Alternate Timelines - The "original" timeline may have had a different origin for Mannix. By going back and becoming his own ancestor, he created a new timeline separate from his original one.
3. Multiple Iterations - It's possible there were multiple iterations of the loop before it stabilized into a consistent closed loop with Mannix as his own ancestor.
4.The Timeline is Unstable - Him disappearing at the end suggests the timeline containing the loop was inherently unstable and never fully consistent.
It's part of what makes the show's take on time travel so fascinating.
It always was that way until the loop was broken.
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If you really want your mind blown with a "grandfather paradox" story, watch the movie "Predestination" starring Ethan Hawke and Sarah Snook!
@@BEYONDPREMIEREmy brain hurts.
The bodies the split into 3. Shahara went back to 2023 . To play the record for young Elias, but that also means another version of her went to 1890 or 1941, same happened to Iris . It's a new loop unless those version ceased to exist when Elias didn't pressed the button. But also Elias has to exist in 1 timeline in order for the first loop to be born, also they never explained how the singularity came about, I bet you Kyal from the new timeline has something to do with it
What about the idea that The KYAL cult exists before Elias was any part of it? in the new reality this would explain the KYAL sign on the building but maybe they haven't had as much influence yet in 2023. Iris was still committed to the ideals of KYAL though she wasn't a fan of the explosion so maybe she started KYAL? honestly any time travel gets super confusing and the series did well to make as much sense as it did.
This would help explain Alise being his own ancestor as maybe the specific kid isnt that important the cult just needs someone they can influence enough to start the loop. As its not possible the first alias who starts the loop is his own ancestor is has to start somewhere.
this series was good at first but kind of dissapointing really. Some things don't make sense and the whole plot is just dumb when you really think about it. You mean to tell me a time machine was built solely for the purpose of this one person to detonate a bomb that would unite the world and it has to happen throughout centuries? Also if the machine splits you into three different timelines where are the other elias? how do they choose which timeline to pick specifically? If the detective really wanted to save her kid why not go back and warn her past self of what will happen or at least get her child and dad out of the country before anything happens? Did this guy really do all of this just to be loved? How is this old bomb tied to a mobile phone activation? ( Maybe I am getting that part wrong) How does one bomb change the entire course of history when it really only happens in one city?
Why was the professor sent to multiple times while mannix and Maplewood were only sent to a single time each?
Defoe uses The Throat once, traveling from 2053 back to 1889.
This causes his body to show up dead in 1889, 2023, 1941, and other eras simultaneously.
So he only personally time travels once, but his body manifests across multiple time periods as a result.
Meanwhile, Elias Mannix and Iris Maplewood each use The Throat once to travel to a single destination (1889 for Mannix, 1890 for Maplewood).
Unlike Defoe, Mannix and Maplewood's bodies do not appear in multiple eras - they stay in the destination time period.
@@BEYONDPREMIEREsorry but you are just summarize the plot. The OG commenters question still stands and is imo a plothole. That would also mean his body will appear im 2 other times in the futuee next to the first appearnce after 4 days. The same stands for the other travelers
@@BEYONDPREMIERE this is not an answer. In reality, writers are dumb, so they made a massive plothole here. This is the only explanation.
i would think ether: plot hole. Or Maybe they did split but the series didn't cover their stories (this would explain iris being in the final scene ) Or it has something to do with him being shot basically about to die.
Someone said that the bullet being in the picture made the body travel weird
i have so many questions. if Mannix went from the future to the past via the throat
how did he existed ?
why did t mannix had the mark on his wrist?
this was a very cool series
I honestly think the Writers don’t even know yet how or why Iris can be in 2023 at the end - and how she can know Shahara.
I think the Writers will just make it up if a Season 2 gets commissioned.
What do u think?
The writers leaving Iris Maplewood's presence in 2023 unexplained does seem to imply they wanted to keep things open-ended, without necessarily having all the details planned out yet. A few thoughts on this:
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- They probably wanted to hint at a larger mythos and new story possibilities for a potential Season 2, without boxing themselves into a set explanation yet.
- Leaving Maplewood's knowledge of Shahara ambiguous does give the writers flexibility to construct an explanation later if needed.
- A sequel renewing would force them to commit to an approach, making sure it aligns with Season 1.
But leaving things open seems a creative choice to spark discussion.
@@BEYONDPREMIERE Netflix called this a "Limited Series", which has come to mean complete story, not something open ended. If there was a Mannix in 1941 (separate from the elderly version), he could still have started a cult/religion but without the time loop. I do with The Throat had been explained. Where did it come from, could they adjust the time stream, why did it give people a tattoo/star on their wrist?
This series makes no sense at the end, i would have hope the put an extra bit with the girl in the future having a new life inbher timeline with many things differently just to show she existed. The fact she is in the cap make no sense after the loop stopped, only for leave way for a season 2 that is not needed, the story was good as a mini series.
Was Iris trapped in 1890 since there's no way for her to go back in 2053? Also, how the hell did Iris meet Shahara in 2023? Did another "Iris" from another universe go back in 2023 to meet and warn her about the impending doom? This show hurts my brain as fuck.
Some theories that could potentially explain this:
Another version of Iris from a different timeline or universe traveled to 2023 deliberately to meet Shahara.
Iris discovered another way to time travel on her own that hasn't been revealed yet.
Timeline changes caused Iris' consciousness to merge across iterations, allowing her to appear in 2023.
You're absolutely right that it hurts the brain! The show doesn't provide a concrete answer, so for now we can only speculate on how she could end up in 2023. But it's a fascinating puzzle that raises so many mind-bending possibilities around time travel and alternate timelines. More layers to discover!
Or maybe the Iris that we saw in the end, was a different Iris from another timeline, possibly from a pre-loop time like a sacred timeline version of her who is aware of time travel and in her timeline she’s part of a time police.
I’m so confused about Elias’ rise to power he was so young when the bomb detonated was he not sent to jail? I dunno how anyone would follow the cult of a teenager. Plus they showed the cadaver of Defoe in the glass jar. Wouldn’t it not be there?
Too many plot holes. Mannix’s origin was not explained as in what led him to set off the bomb in the first place and why he had to go back in time to ensure the events that takes place actually took place. I mean what’s the point in going back when the events did indeed take place. My only explanation is that he was fearful that the Time Machine would be used to erase the events from the past including the setting off of the bomb so he went back to become his own ancestor to ensure that does not happen (the show does not explain this)
Also with the Time Machine why is it that only Defoe was abled to travel backwards and forwards? Why was Mannix ONLY seen in the past? But also Maplewood was alluded to be present 4 days in the future. Why was Defoe going to 4 timelines and not Mannix? Or was that intentionally left out? Because in the end we saw Maplewood in 2023, does this imply she was also there in 1941 as well??
I have question if someone can explain it will be helpful
1.They never explained why and how the bodies of dafoe reached in those specific timelines like 1890, 1941 2023 and 2053 was these any pattern or just random occurance.
1890 - just after jack the rippers, 1941 - during ww2, 2023 - just before the nuke, - 2053 - the discovery and use of the throat. The comic explains its more, there is significance, but that might be spoilers for season 2.
4 detectives Separated by time Past ,Present and Future impacting all time lines .it was Amazing
Super creative 👀
Did yal note how all the DS's recognised the people that played a significant part in their past's turning point, Karl and Esther, Hillinghead and Henry?? Are they still going to encounter them in the future or are they their official "past"?
But im also trying to understand how Iris made it to 2023 when she was last seen in 1861*...? But is from the future Elias had "built"??...
But we also see a glimpse of 2053 in 2023 being constructed.. question is... by who?? And why sooner than the initial timeline.. could it be the proffessor?? He looked almost sad or surprised when Iris spoke of how she believed in what the system meant for her..., and he has a soft spot for her...🤔
Make it make sense😭
You raise some excellent questions and observations about the ending of Bodies! Let's break down some of the key points:
- It's meaningful that the detectives encounter pivotal characters from their altered pasts like Karl, Esther, Hillinghead, and Henry. It suggests echoes of those relationships persist despite the timeline changes.
- Iris Maplewood's presence in 2023 is very perplexing given we last saw her in the 1890s. It's unclear how she traveled to 2023 or retained her memories after Elias was erased.
- The brief glimpse of the KYAL sign being in 2023 ahead of schedule does imply someone is still advancing Elias's agenda earlier than expected.
- Professor Defoe certainly has a soft spot for Iris. Perhaps he finds a way to help bring Iris to 2023 to give her a second chance.
- Or members of the cult could be responsible for Iris being in 2023 and rebuilding pieces of Mannix's future plans sooner than the original timeline.
The show leaves a lot unexplained about the ending and how certain events and character intersections are occurring despite the timeline shift.
There are definitely a lot of thought-provoking paradoxes and possibilities raised by the ending that I don't think we can definitively answer yet with the information provided. Hopefully a second season could provide more clarity.
@@BEYONDPREMIERE .... I keep leaning towards the professor behind Iris' mysterious return in 2023, as he was the only one left behind in the Throat while Shahana made it back to find Karl's "one good thing" at the Silk...
i also recall Iris was 37yrs in 2053?.. so how old is she in 2023.. 17yrs maybe...?
Also remember despite the regret she felt for shooting Defoe, Iris actually believed in the system as she felt that she "belonged" and wanted to be part of something. Where possibilities existed... Could she have seen an opportunity to feel loved.. be loved? Be Elias himself - "walk" in his power?
And something we overlooked, despite stopping the young Elias from causing an explosion.. Shahana said she cannot help but feel that "this place will explode" and asked Iris if she knew what she meant.. in which Iris agreed.
Season 2 definitely needs to answer all these qz
Although i am confused i liked the show, i wish there would be more clarity withs second season if not we fans can use the clues rewatch it andana,
Re analize what we know. It was a great premises, and in my opinion well acted and executed. I was highly entertained even if confused …
@@silviaetna9874 haha your hopes are shared... truly confusing but entertaining..
in Mannix first timeline he was very happy with his wife why would he be convinced that he wasn’t
i liked how his “mother” knew he wasn’t his son and embraced him anyways
interesting
Like Shahara said to Iris when she was about to travel back, they just needed to plant a seed of doubt. Since it was THAT Elias's first time living in the past and pursuing Polly, he didn't see how it would play out like we did. It's not like he had any photo albums or home videos to prove their happiness and love for each other, he only had the records left behind by Elias, which Hillinghead then told him were lies, as well as everything his foster parents told him. This was more than enough to make him doubt his success in being loved, which ironically caused him not to be loved. Obviously, this was the best course of action since it ended up saving everyone, but it was sad to see their relationship fall apart, especially during the pregnancy announcement and birth of their baby 😢
On a somewhat unrelated note I also found it interesting that Elias had no problem going along with this timeline loop after loop despite the fact that his wife and son get murdered at relatively young ages. Like, that wasn't something he felt he should try to prevent? He didn't feel guilty about that??
I have a theory about the ending.
What if when Iris uses the time machine to go back in time, she instead made an branching timeline of some sort...
In this timeline she causes a chain of events that makes old Elias really regret everything and create the additional record. Younger Elias listens to the record, which prevents him from detonating the bomb. With the loop broken in this alternate timeline, Elias and his cult then ceases to exist.
However my theory is that this is just an alternate timeline and the original timeline is still "intact".
What if this whole thing was the "Know You Are Loved" corporation trying to exploit the multiverse theory. The characters successful changing the past was just yet another case where the corporation manipulated them. At the end, the building suddenly lights up with the corporation's name. The corporation might have created this alternate timeline just to take over it as well.
And maybe this could go even further as the corporation wants the alternate timeline's Elias to cease to exist, so the original corporation won't have any "competition". Like how in Loki, He Who Remains wants to remove competition by preventing his variants from existing.
my only question is how did he rise to power when people know its him that caused the nuclear bomb
Yeah exactly. Forget all the time travelling mumbo jumpo for a minute: people saw this terrorist who killed hundreds of thousands and were like, Hmm let's make him Commander??
No, I don't think they knew it was Elais who did it (in the future). DC Maplewood surely didn't. I do think there is more than one person pulling the strings. It creates one massive paradox in the end, though 😅
Everything is because of the throat, right, and the motivation is to go back and undo the explosion. That was the professor's motivation to a degree and not just to build it on a theory. So, if Mannix never exists? Does the throat exist?
So many questions 😅
Know you are loved
KYAL
Just like the body went back multiple times and forward the same amount, im guessing that Mannix and the 2 detectives did as well
There is a key difference between how Gabriel Defoe's body moved through time compared to Elias Mannix and the detectives:
* Defoe's body was shown in multiple different time periods - past, present and future. It appeared to uncontrollably skip across decades.
* In contrast, Mannix and the detectives (Maplewood, Hasan) each consciously chose a specific time period to travel to using the time machine.
* They did not spontaneously travel to multiple eras like Defoe's body did. They traveled in a controlled way to their chosen destination.
* You could argue that Defoe's body traveling across time demonstrates flaws or instability with the time travel technology.
* Whereas the detectives purposefully traveling to selected times shows mastery over the technology and when/where they arrive.
@@BEYONDPREMIERE Iris in 2023... and Defoe explained the time travel as having waves or something like that. I have to rewatch, I only binged it yesterday for the first time.
Right at the end, does 2023 Shahara remember 2023 Elias and 2053 Shahara vanishing right before her eyes?
There are a few possibilities:
She does remember - The trauma of seeing them vanish sticks with her even after changes ripple through time. This memory could motivate her going forward.
She doesn't remember - The timeline shift erases her memory completely of those events. To her they never happened.
She gets fuzzy memories - Shahara may have vague déjà vu or confusing glimpses relating to those events buried in her mind.
My theory going by the other characters.
@@BEYONDPREMIERE cheers
Hey here is my question, why Maplewood's body is not shown through different timelines as of professor?
Do they have different landing times ? Like iris went to 1889 or 1890 first and appeared in 2023 in future?
This is just regurgitating the plot not an explanation
Im waiting for FROM 😩
May do a timeline of events soon 🥺
Reminds me of looper and predestination
SPOILER ALERT:
1. If time travel splits you up in three people and one Elias ended up in 1889, where (or rather, WHEN) are the other two versions of Elias?
2. Why did all the time travellers end up in Longharvest Lane while the location of the Throat was somewhere else entirely?
3. If Shahara is a muslim woman, why is she covered in tattoos in 2053?
Muslims are not allowed to have tattoos.
4. If the time loop has been broken, why is there a building with a KYAL neon sign in 2023?
A lot of Muslim men have tattoos.
3. She lost faith after the bomb, hence why she doesnt cover her hair anymore. 4. in my opinion the timeloop wasnt broken because the time machine splits people that use it. one of the character variants had to have done something
3. seems like she lost her faith after the bombing. and some muslim sects allow tattoos, some don't. I'm a muslim woman with tattoos (because my sect allows it). depends on which sect you belong to, really. also if shahara did lose her faith, i'd love to see it in the story if there's a season 2 ^-^
Time travel sucks so much that it will forever remain a writer facility, never a reality. Too many unexplained paradoxes...
What part of LIMITED series do you people not understand? It's a standalone season that wraps everything up relevant to the story being told. Limited series means just that: LIMITED