The 'Bodkin' Trailer is a Podcaster's Nightmare

You don't have to be in the entertainment industry to realize that creating television can be an odd business. This has been especially true since 2013, when the streaming revolution caused executives to lose their collective heads and blow up a model that had been working for 50 years to chase one that hadn't yet turned a profit. You also don't have to be an American to realize our system of government is a bit wonky, in that a human can reach the pinnacle of power as leader of the free world at the age of 46; and then find themselves completely at loose ends eight years later. However, when Barack and Michelle Obama announced they were getting into the business of producing television, the assumption was they'd be making American shows about serious American issues for American audiences. Instead, we have... Bodkin.

You must forgive us for not noticing Bodkin previously; like most people, the production credits caused us to dismiss it without looking closely. After all, the former president of the United States isn't about to be producing a series for a niche entertainment site dedicated to Anglophilic shows set across the pond, right? LOL, wrong. Bodkin is, in fact, a series that would be more at home on BritBox than it would be on Netflix. Led by Siobhán Cullen, best known as the star of the ITV/RTÉ series The Dry, Bodkin is set in a small coastal town in Ireland, where a group of strugglebus podcasters in search of a hit find themselves poking about in hopes of turning up a Serial style story.

However, the more they dig into the mystery hidden beneath the quaint Irish scenery and behind accents so thick they warrant constant subtitles, the weirder the answers get. Almost as weird as this series being a product of a former president's production company.