‘The Body’ Creator on the Dance Team’s Sexuality, What Happened to Grace and Whether God Is Real

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for “The Body,” now streaming on Netflix.

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If you’re looking for clear answers about whether or not God is real in the world of “The Body” — Netflix’s spooky new drama series about mass hysteria originating from a Catholic school dance team — you’re not going to find them.

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“If we ever fully defined it, it would break the rule of the show,” says creator Quinn Shephard. “The show is meant to mimic faith, so there’s people who believe, there’s people who don’t and there’s people in the middle, like me, who are like, ‘I don’t know.’”

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But regardless of whether it’s the big man upstairs or just some devious teenage girls pulling the strings, “The Body” has a lot to say about faith and its role in the lives of young and sometimes queer girls. Shephard is a proud lesbian who was raised in the church and has stepped away from it without fully rejecting it, and the show’s up-and-down relationship with God is a product of that.

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At the beginning of “The Body,” a devout Catholic named Grace (Sofia Wylie) is the clear standout at dance team tryouts, much to the chagrin…

Original source: https://variety.com/v/tv/

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