Bodkin was a great series that failed to stick the landing .
I have always been a fan of Will Forte.He and Jason Sudeikis have this way of being the audience in their shows and movie. I find it endearing. With Forte there is always a bit of darkness about it and he plays it so straight so it relies on you as the audience member to both suspend disbelief and also appreciate the irony of the situation at the same time. Bodkin is a charming whodunnit that modernizes the genre using the newer occupation of podcaster as the vehicle to tell the story about a 20 year old mystery that some people would prefered would stay in the past. A trio of investigators left by Forte also includes Siobhan Cullen as Dove and Robyn Cara as Emma. The three descend upon the coastal village of Bodkin located in the Republic of Ireland. They all have different agendas, with Dove and Gilbert's being the most disparate. Dove wants to discover the truth while Gilbert wants to wallow in it. Emma is probably the most chaotic in terms of trying to serve the other tw...