Bodies: Will the Netflix show be renewed for season 2?

Bodies has arrived on Netflix, giving subscribers the chance to binge watch the time travel crime drama to their heart's content.

The series, which is based on Si Spencer's graphic novel of the same name, follows four detectives in different timelines (1890, 1941, 2023, and 2053) who all discover the same body and begin investigating what happened and why, leading them on a collision course with each other across time and space.

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Told across eight episodes, viewers may well speed through the season and then wonder if there will be any more to come.

Here is everything we know about the possibility of the show being renewed for season 2, and consider this a major spoiler warning for the events of the season.

Bodies season 2: Will the Netflix show be renewed?

In Bodies, detectives Hillinghead (Kyle Soller), Whiteman (Jacob Fortune-Lloyd), Hasan (Amaka Okafor), and Mapelwood (Shira Haas) come to realise there is a greater threat afoot — Stephan Graham's mysterious villain Commander Mannix.

Graham's character appears in multiple timelines and this is because of the discovery of time travel in 2053, where he rules through the organisation KYAL (which stands for "know you are loved") that took over following a catastrophic event in 2023.

The seeds of the event and KYAL's establishment were sown much earlier though, as Mannix travels to 1890 to establish the cult, begin preparations for the 2023 event, and ensure his own birth takes place. It is a time loop — if Mannix doesn't go back in time to secure his bloodline and set the world on a path of destruction that comes to a head in 2023, then none of it will happen.

This, it turns out, is how the four detectives are able to tackle the problem — by stopping Mannix as a teen in 2023 he never establishes KYAL by 2053, or discovers time travel and goes back to 1890 to set the wheels in motion for his own takeover.

As a result of their actions Mannix disappears from existence, and while that makes it seem like all is well and time is back to how it should be the show ends on a cliffhanger.

At the very end of the series detective Hasan travels to her father's birthday party by taxi in 2023, everything appears fine until viewers realise she is being driven by detective Mapelwood — who hails from the 2053 timeline.

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That Mapelwood has travelled back in time suggests something is afoot, and this is only further heightened by the final shot of the series which shows the London skyline with a KYAL neon logo visible on one of the buildings — thus suggesting the organisation is still thriving regardless of Mannix's demise.

Viewers may well be wondering whether the show will therefore continue this narrative thread moving forward, however the sad news is that it won't because the show is a limited series.

Speaking about the show's format, creator Paul Tomalin said: "I believe that an eight episode limited series should feel like three series boiled down to one.

"I grew up with movies not TV, so I like cinematic experiences and actual definitive endings. This is a one and done... You’ll walk away with your heart wrenched, but satisfied come the final curtain.

"There’s no drag in this f***er. A premise of such magnitude demands an ending of the same nature... I hope we did that."

So, this means that Bodies will not be renewed for a second season, despite the way the show ends.

Bodies is out on Netflix now.

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