The Body Ending Explained: When a group of teen girls perform a hazing ritual on their new recruit, things go horribly wrong. Grace finds herself in the hospital, and the dance group slowly gets more and more unhinged by the minute. As morale dips and everyone starts to share in the delusions, manipulation and secrets rot the group and the town from the very inside. The eight episodes of the series take viewers on a journey through teenage secrets, Catholic guilt and a whole host of manipulative lies that leave the entire school destroyed by the end.
Is Grace truly someone who can do miracles? Did the Halloween initiation ritual bring out something demonic? What is Lisbeth’s role in all of this? We discuss all of this and more in this series about teenage drama and people who just can’t seem to stop lying!
Starring Kristina Bogic, Geena Meszaros, Sara Boustany, Jackson Kelly, Sofia Wylie, Shirley Chen, Louisa Krause, and Nnamdi Asomugha, the series is created and directed by Quinn Shephard.
The Body Ending Explained
What Really Happened to Grace Franklin?
The mystery surrounding Grace Franklin and what happened to her becomes a talking point throughout the runtime of the series as the school and the townspeople go through emotional ups and downs surrounding it. After the Halloween ritual goes out of hand, Grace falls into a coma, and doctors are unable to understand what has happened to her since her blood work comes out clean.
In the end, however, the entire truth comes to light. Grace and the rest of the dance group had consumed ecstasy and alcohol on Halloween, which probably negatively affected Grace. As we learn later on, doctors didn’t run a panel for ecstasy and other similar drugs, as a result of which they didn’t show up at first. However, thanks to Maddie’s confession later on, her parents finally learn the truth. But by then, it was probably too late. Thus, as the dance group and the townspeople had initially thought, Grace wasn’t going through something supernatural – it was probably a reaction to the drugs and alcohol that she had consumed that night.
Anya, Lisbeth and the dance group are the only people who know what happened. However, none of them says anything to authorities for fear that they might be charged. It’s their selfishness that results in Grace being misdiagnosed, and she didn’t receive proper treatment either. Meanwhile, their guilt and emotions result in them dreaming about Grace and seemingly seeing her while awake as well. However, the series consistently reminds her that all of this is not real or supernatural; it’s just a manifestation of the girls’ consciousness and desperate need to fit into the narrative whilst someone catches their lie.
Did Lisbeth Manipulate Everyone Into Believing in a Miracle?
From the onset in The Body series on Netflix, Lisbeth is shown to be an extremely manipulative character who will exploit anyone to get what she wants. Thus, when she moved to this school, she had her sights set on joining the dance team and found Anya to be the right target for her. She slowly made her way close to her, knowing that she had some insecurities that she could manipulate, and, with the Grace incident, used it to her benefit to stay close to Anya and make her way into the dance team.
Thus, she is the driving force behind the chaos as she started the rumour of Grace being taken by the devil to push the suspicion away from her and Anya. She used this as an excuse to blackmail the latter and used the chaos from her lies to make a stronghold in the team. Using religion as her shield, she made everyone believe her thanks to her understanding of such practices from the cult she was once a part of.
Lisbeth, thus, isn’t an innocent bystander caught up in the chaos. She actively uses any information at hand and twists it to suit her narrative and get those around her under control. She does this at home as well, trying to control her mother and brother to do her bidding. However, her mother is shown to consistently see through her lies, something that she clearly does not like.
What Happens Between Anya and Elise in the Finale?
The finale puts Anya and Elise’s bond to the test. Their attraction for one another eventually culminates in a physical relationship, something that Anya is not able to accept thanks to her religious upbringing. However, despite that, she desperately tries to stay close to Elise since she’s the only person who truly understands her.
In the end, however, their relationship faces its biggest challenge yet when Elise realises that Anya will put anyone under the bus if it means saving herself. She did the same with the dance team in the beginning by forcing them to keep the ecstasy a secret, and she was going to let Elise and Steven take the fall for her in the end. Thus, when the truth comes out and Anya still doesn’t accept what she has done in front of everyone, Elise is left disgusted and walks away from her, although we don’t see whether or not they overcome this situation.
What Does the Final Scene Mean?
In the finale, Anya tearfully goes to Grace’s house to ask for Father Franklin’s forgiveness and tells him her sins. Right at that moment, Grace wakes up, while Lisbeth tells the dance team that she had given Grace a second life by trying to take her to the hospital and saving her on the road with her touch. Lisbeth, of course, is lying, and despite knowing the chaos it can cause, she continues to do so to save herself.
The final scene shows Michael asking Grace whether she remembers her name, and she says, “I’m God.” While it’s understandable that a devout religious person like her, who is also coming out of a coma, would be severely confused, it indicates that those around her, including Anya and Father Franklin, would misread her words and think that she’s actually god.
The ending leaves everything up in the air, as, by that time, Father Franklin was coming to the conclusion that he had jumped the gun by believing the girls, but this new twist could shake everything up, particularly with Lisbeth’s lies, which will surely spread like wildfire among the townspeople.
Will There Be The Body Season 2?
The Body‘s ending turns everything upside down as, although we see a definitive answer to everything, the ending leaves everyone confused and mistrustful. While Anya and Lisbeth have both been manipulating people around them, in the end, it’s Grace who has suffered the most. However, now that she is awake, will this bode well for her and her family? A second season could answer that question and more!
Watch The Body on Netflix. What did you think about the series? Let us know in the comments below!
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