Hulu’s new anthology series Into the Dark offers a darkly comic slasher story in its first episode, The Body, more akin to Alfred Hitchcock than Rod Serling. Television critic Glenn Garvin takes a look:
The bloodshed is already well underway when The Body gets started. It opens with Halloween-night a shot of a bloody corpse at the feet of a dapper fellow we’ll soon come to know as Wilkes (Tom Bateman of last year’s Murder on the Orient Express), a renowned and rather cosmopolitan hitman. (Go-to conversation starter: recitation of Dante’s Inferno. Midnight snack of choice: casu marzu, a dish of Sardinian cheese and live maggots.)
Wilkes must deliver the corpse—it’s somebody famous, though we never learn exactly who—to his client, and after casing it in Saran Wrap, drags it downstairs from a penthouse, confident it will be mistaken for part of a costume. That works, but his car has been trashed into immobility by Halloween vandals.
To get a ride, he has to fall in with a collection of self-important and dazzlingly airheaded millennials, impressed by what they think is an amazingly realistic corpse prop. (“Super sick!” gasps one in admiration.) If he’ll stop into a hipster party and boost their cred, they’ll take him on his way.
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