Catholic schoolgirls behave badly in ambitious but empty ‘The Body’

The Body has interesting ideas, but doesn’t fully explore them. Toward the end of the first episode of The Body, awkward teenage outcast Lisbeth Anderson (Geena Meszaros) has maneuvered herself into a position of influence over popular dance team captain Anya Butler (Kristina Bogic), putting her within reach of a coveted position on the team. Returning to the debaucherous Halloween party the team has been throwing at a notorious, reportedly haunted abandoned convent, Lisbeth dons a bedazzled team jacket and exits the car into a full-on dance number, a gloriously stylized moment that sends the dark drama into the realm of the completely surreal.It’s disappointing, then, that the rest of the eight-episode season contains almost none of that quasi-musical energy, despite its occasional abstract touches. It’s not until five episodes later that there’s another similarly evocative choreographed number, which comes as a welcome break from the repetitive vagueness of the central story.

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