Gilbert In Bodkin: Netflix presents a mystery thriller “Bodkin” from the creator Jez Scharf. The series has seven episodes with nearly 50 minutes per episode. The story is about three people who come to Bodkin to make a podcast. A podcaster and two journalists join hands to find the secret of what really happened the day three persons disappeared in Bodkin.
They started getting more truths when they started enquiring about people there. How they find the truth and what really happened that day is the plot of this series. Set in Ireland this series also shows the beautiful scenery of Ireland too.
Gilbert Power’s character is played by famous actor Will Forte. Will Forte acted in many films and series. He is an excellent artist who can pull up any kind of character seamlessly. Will Forte showed his best performance in this series as Gilbert Power. He is calm and entertaining at the same funny too.
Even though he can do jokes he is also good at doing emotional scenes. Especially in this series, he had that depression face throughout. The creator opting Will Forte for the role of Gilbert Power was his best choice. Will Forte is known for his best performance shown in MacGruber (2010), Nebraska (2013), Extra Ordinary (2019), and Scoob! (2020), Strays (2023) and many more.
Gilbert Power is a podcaster who came to Bodkin to make a podcast on the disappearance of three persons who happened years ago. He wanted the podcast to be thrilling. His family name is Power. Apparently, he was from Ireland also so his ancestors may be related to someone with Power. The sergeant’s name also ended with Power.
Gilbert Power made a good career by making a podcast on his and his wife’s personal story of fighting cancer of his wife. After that, his wife left him. Gilbert Power got very sad and felt guilty because of his doing in the past. He tried to contact her and talk to her but she doesn’t have interest in continuing their relationship.
Gilbert Power met his wife while his podcast on Bodkin was going on. She came to get a sign from him on divorce papers. Gilbert Power apologised many times to her but she said she couldn’t live with him anymore. Gilbert Power is an innocent-minded man. He goes by the rules. Even if he gets exclusives for his podcasts he doesn’t break rules to get it. When he and Emmy went to meet Sergeant Power, Emmy stole the case file, but Gilbert Power opposed doing that. He was an honest man. Gilbert Power got involved in gambling when he was drunk and he owed 8000 dollars to Frank.
Frank used to blackmail him but Seamus offered him money to give to Frank in return he needed to keep his name out of the podcast. Gilbert accepted it because he had no other way. He was guilty about it, but when the real killer was known he got happy for it was not that bad choice.
That’s all about Gilbert Power from the ‘Bodkin‘ series. If you have any doubts about this series, please leave a comment.
