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Eve Lockhart leads us into her other world on ‘The Body Farm’, a private forensics facility that is pushing the boundaries of scientific research and crime solving into unchartered territory. Eve is an exceptional forensic pathologist who leads a brilliant and ambitious team of scientists at the private facility where human remains are donated for scientific research. They are called upon by police forces all over the world to provide expert knowledge to help solve crimes. Here, no horror is taken for granted and murder is seen to be what it is--visceral and shocking.
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- Extended Episode One With Deleted Scenes
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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2.4 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital Stereo ), English ( Subtitles ), ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN (1.78:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: 3-DVD Set, Alternative Footage, Anamorphic Widescreen, Deleted Scenes, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: Tara Fitzgerald plays Eve Lockhart, from 'Waking The Dead', in this original six-part series made by BBC Drama Production. Eve Lockhart leads us into her other world on 'The Body Farm', a private forensics facility that is pushing the boundaries of scientific research and crime solving into unchartered territory. Eve is an exceptional forensic pathologist who leads a brilliant and ambitious team of scientists at the private facility where human remains are donated for scientific research. They are called upon by police forces all over the world to provide expert knowledge to help solve crimes. Here, no horror is taken for granted and murder is seen to be what it is - visceral and shocking. ...The Body Farm - Series 1 - 3-DVD Set
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26 of 31 people found the following review helpful
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As a fan of Waking The Dead, and BBC drama in general, I was looking forward to this series. Week one left me feeling unconvinced, weeks two and three have consolidated my disappointment - I totally agree with the comments of the first two reviewers. Additionally, there are just too many occasions when the viewer is required to suspend belief in relation to timescales for complex scientific analysis to be undertaken and this detracts from the suspense. There are some good bits, but these are overshadowed by the overall lack of credibility in the plots and a dvd of the series will be at the bottom of my priority list.
43 of 52 people found the following review helpful
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Dr Eve Lockhart (Tara FitzGerald) from Waking the Dead gets her own series.So where does it go wrong?
-'The Body Farm' itself-a collection of farm buildings in an unspecified location filled to the rafters with digital and computerised technology that 'real' forensic teams can only dream about. It is too technical,giving the impression that serious crime can be solved merely by pressing a button.
-The character of 'Oggy',one of the 'team'.A stereotype- techno-phobe,uber geek happiest at his terminal and totally at odds with the real world.A past illness is hinted at but not developed. He is a genius-can spot a death scene fungus sent to him via an I-Phone and give its latin name.He self harms to test viral infection!! Yes,its that sort of pretentious programme.
- The lone police presence-played by Keith Allen, a seemingly one man police district with no other officers or means of solving crime. He therefore enlists the assistance of the good Doctor and her team. To be fair, Keith Allen gives a restrained performance but just who is he?
-Who indeed are this specialist team and who do they work for? The viewer is expected to accept what is shown without asking what? who? or why?
-The hour long format which wraps everything up in a nice little parcel with plots so thin that you can spot the suspect(s) a mile off and are expected to suspend disbelief that a hospital ward sister would allow a woman with no ID into intensive care just because she claims to be working for the Home Office! The same said woman then proceeds, with some level of accuracy, to inform the patients relatives of the patients condition and recovery prognosis!!! Utter fallacy.
-Snap decisions are made, with little to back them up,and they usually-wonder of wonders-turn out to be right.
I could go on. A waste of Tara FitzGerald and a poor attempt to jump on the Waking the Dead bandwagon. The former worked because of the strong cast which gave excellent interplay between the team members and,generally tightly plotted scripts: this fails through poor acting and paper thin scripts. The graphic crime scenes,blood,guts and gore serve only to add a sense of crude voyeurism. Very disappointing.
As a postscript,I've now seen more of this-on the off chance that I had been harsh- and can only revise my opinion down...alas, no zero star option. It is,quite simply,appalling.
-'The Body Farm' itself-a collection of farm buildings in an unspecified location filled to the rafters with digital and computerised technology that 'real' forensic teams can only dream about. It is too technical,giving the impression that serious crime can be solved merely by pressing a button.
-The character of 'Oggy',one of the 'team'.A stereotype- techno-phobe,uber geek happiest at his terminal and totally at odds with the real world.A past illness is hinted at but not developed. He is a genius-can spot a death scene fungus sent to him via an I-Phone and give its latin name.He self harms to test viral infection!! Yes,its that sort of pretentious programme.
- The lone police presence-played by Keith Allen, a seemingly one man police district with no other officers or means of solving crime. He therefore enlists the assistance of the good Doctor and her team. To be fair, Keith Allen gives a restrained performance but just who is he?
-Who indeed are this specialist team and who do they work for? The viewer is expected to accept what is shown without asking what? who? or why?
-The hour long format which wraps everything up in a nice little parcel with plots so thin that you can spot the suspect(s) a mile off and are expected to suspend disbelief that a hospital ward sister would allow a woman with no ID into intensive care just because she claims to be working for the Home Office! The same said woman then proceeds, with some level of accuracy, to inform the patients relatives of the patients condition and recovery prognosis!!! Utter fallacy.
-Snap decisions are made, with little to back them up,and they usually-wonder of wonders-turn out to be right.
I could go on. A waste of Tara FitzGerald and a poor attempt to jump on the Waking the Dead bandwagon. The former worked because of the strong cast which gave excellent interplay between the team members and,generally tightly plotted scripts: this fails through poor acting and paper thin scripts. The graphic crime scenes,blood,guts and gore serve only to add a sense of crude voyeurism. Very disappointing.
As a postscript,I've now seen more of this-on the off chance that I had been harsh- and can only revise my opinion down...alas, no zero star option. It is,quite simply,appalling.
Format:DVD
then you most likely will like Body Farm.
Yes, it does have its "gorey" scenes, but
a good thriller.
And if you like Trevor Eve...he's one of the producers so you know he does great work.
Yes, it does have its "gorey" scenes, but
a good thriller.
And if you like Trevor Eve...he's one of the producers so you know he does great work.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
A bit science fictionish
Without being a scientist, it seems to me, however, that the scientist are a bit too good, a bit science fictionist.
Published 4 months ago by Mirja Tiri
Body Farm Review
Interesting first season. Not over-stuffed with tech info, but just enough for folks to learn something new in every episode.
Published 5 months ago by Royce Andrew Ratterman
A dead loss
I was looking forward to this after Waking the Dead, but it was a major let-down. The new characters are second-rate and the stories aren't anywhere near as good. Bring back Trev !
Published 6 months ago by I. P. Terry
Great TV
I simply can not understand the negitive reviews on this new TV series. This Series is set for a cult following. Read more
Published 6 months ago by andyg
I don't get the negative reviews!
Living in the States, the only way I can watch British tele is from their DVD issues, and being a huge fan of Waking The Dead, The Body Farm was high on my list. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Keiley Blair
Not the real thing!
I am a real Anatomical Pathology Tecnologist and so deal with forensic and Deceased persons every weekday... Read more
Published 6 months ago by NikonSi
casting let down
They really screwed up on this one, a real shame for Tara Fitzgerald, as she was the only one putting anything into the program, The cast is pretty bad, with Keith Allen really... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Michael Wilden
What a waste of Tara Fitzgerald
This series is an outgrowth of "Waking the Dead", set in an eponymous "body farm", where Tara Fitzgerald and her assistants forensically study the effects of decay on human corpses... Read more
Published 6 months ago by O. G. M. Morgan
Shallow characterisation
If there was a weakness in Waking The Dead it was the lack of biographical backstory of its characters. Read more
Published 6 months ago by mancheeros
Yet again! No Blu-ray
This isn't a review about the series - feel free to skip...
Okay, I admit it isn't the end of the world - but, I'm getting sick and tired of the BBC and others releasing... Read more
Okay, I admit it isn't the end of the world - but, I'm getting sick and tired of the BBC and others releasing... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Mike
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