Director: Jez Scharf
Three podcasters chasing a decades-old cold case get far more than a good episode out of it in Bodkin, a 2024 dark comedy thriller shot through with small-town Irish charm.
What is Bodkin about?
The setup is deceptively simple: an American podcasting team arrives in a picturesque Irish town to investigate the unsolved disappearance of three strangers years earlier, hoping the story will make a gripping true-crime series. What they find instead is a town built on decades of quiet secrets, where everyone has a version of events and nobody's version quite lines up. As the team pulls at loose threads, they discover that the case connects to smugglers, feuds, and personal histories that reach well beyond the original disappearance, and their own presence starts changing the story they came to tell. The tone balances genuine unease with wry humor, treating the podcasters' outsider naivety as part of the joke even as the mystery around them grows more serious. Created by Jez Scharf, the series uses the true-crime-podcast format itself as a way to poke fun at how outsiders package other people's tragedies for entertainment.
Cast & crew
Siobhán Cullen and Robyn Cara lead the podcasting team at the center of the investigation, with Chris Walley, David Wilmot, and Will Forte among the ensemble giving the town of Bodkin its mix of warmth and menace.
Context & significance
Bodkin premiered in 2024 as a joint Irish and American production, created by Jez Scharf, and runs 45 minutes per episode across a comedy-drama-thriller blend. It arrives amid a broader interest in the true-crime podcast genre, using the format's conventions to examine who gets to tell a community's darkest story.
Where & how to watch
Bodkin is available on K-Time with a Farsi-language interface designed for Persian-speaking viewers, along with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles. This page can be read for free, and watching the series requires only signing into a K-Time account, with no extra steps needed.