Bodkin is a darkly comic mystery series on Netflix set in the fictional coastal village of Bodkin on the west coast of Ireland, where three strangers — an American true crime podcaster, his reluctant Irish researcher, and a mysterious woman with her own agenda — converge to investigate the decades-old disappearance of three people during a local festival. What begins as a quirky podcasting adventure quickly unravels into something far stranger and more dangerous.

Starring Will Forte, Siobhán Cullen, and Robyn Cara, the series expertly balances genuine menace with pitch-black comedy, finding absurd humor in the gap between true crime podcast conventions and the genuinely weird, often threatening reality of small-town Irish secrets. The performances are uniformly excellent, with Cullen in particular delivering a star-making turn as the sharp-tongued, deeply competent researcher stuck babysitting a hapless American.

Created by Jez Scharf, Bodkin earned strong reviews for its atmospheric sense of place, its unpredictable plotting, and its willingness to puncture the true crime genre’s self-seriousness while still delivering genuine thrills. It stands as one of Netflix’s most distinctive original series, with a voice entirely its own.