You should know if The Body is a show for you from the premise alone. After a botched dance-team initiation, a group of Catholic high school girls inspire a wave of mass hysteria in their small religious town — it may or may not be connected to the devil. Personally, it’s as if someone smushed all of my favorite keywords into one eight-episode Netflix series.
Set in the aughts and dripping with Juicy Couture apparel, low-waisted jeans, and a bedazzled title card, The Body feels like a Zillennial take on The Devils, only gayer and with a peripheral interest in men. There’s less horror than promised, but man does it deliver memorable mean girls, dreamy dance routines, and AIM drama. The Body is, above all, a really good time.
Created by Quinn Shephard (Under the Bridge), the series centers on three very different girls. Anya (Kristina Bogic) is popular and sweet, the co-captain of the Lions, her school’s dance team. She shares the title with her best friend, Elise (Sara Boustany), the mean to her nice. And then there’s Lisbeth (Geena Meszaros), a strange and lonely girl who’s the daughter of the town recluse (Louisa Krause). Her mother rarely leaves her bedroom, and when she does, it’s to deliver fanatic religious rants.
Lisbeth and Anya cross paths after Lisbeth botches her audition for the dance team, which painfully features her doing the robot while the girls don’t even try to hide their snickers. Still, Anya can’t help but feel bad for Lisbeth, and does what any good girl would do: invites her to a party.
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