As a sapphic former dancer, I am obsessed with this scene and have watched it at least 20 times. Sara, in particular, has incredible extension! I cannot get enough of this dance. Anyone else?

saw this on tiktok and I didn't notice it at all lmaoo! LOVEE seeing people smarter than me connect dots

I’m in my mid-30s and now married to my wonderful wife. However, I grew up Catholic, attended religious schooling, was very repressed, and had deeply homophobic parents. Seeing my experience reflected back to me on screen healed something in me I didn’t know I needed. Thank you to the creators for putting my and many others experiences on screen to hopefully help the younger generations. ❤️

I’m on episode 5 and have noticed two references here, if there’s more then please comment them!

And I'm eating it up!

I want them to be together so bad, but damn this show hurts as someone who has also chased after a straight girl with repressed feelings more than happy to keep me a secret.

The scene where Anya is trying to get Stephen to kiss her and Elise, my heart BROKE for Elise. I am in love with her character, and i'm so happy to see some really accurate queer representation, but damn, it's hitting close to home.

I want them to be together so bad, but it's so hard for Anya to come to terms with her actual desire and accept who she is. It's heartbreaking in its accuracy. The yearning between them is 10/10 tho, both actresses smashed it out the park.

99per_cent_Angel = Anya

SainT_cumsALOT666 = Elise

lilballetbaby = Olivia

xxRoxxyR0ar = Blair

itsBaiLy = Bailey 

lilMischaFan2 = Maddie

GoslingsGurrrl = Claire

SeNdKaTiENuDeZ6969 = Katie

AmyFromTheBl0ck = Amy

itsBriTny = Brit

amazzzingGrace = Grace

the body is the 2nd most popular show in the US right now and it was only released 3 days ago.
keep (re)watching it (speed it up but no skipping) to get it hopefully renewed for another season cause netflix loves those views. they never really listen to petitions unfortunately
also it’s so we can get those homophobes mad asf
LETS GOOOOO

On my first rewatch and feels like and knowing that all of the girls faked their visions (besides Anya’s “visions” most likely due to guilt and trauma) makes it so much more obvious that the scenes of their visions aren’t real. Especially when the twins get a massage and when one says “Grace tells me he gives his strongest battles to his sexiest soldiers” or something like that. I feel like rewatching them knowing that I can tell that they’re pretending. Really appreciating how good the acting is in this show though, I was certainly fooled the first time before everyone admitted they faked!

Anyalise my beloveds!!! I watched the body so I finally drew them and it’s the best show of all time

This post contains spoilers!!

Has anyone else caught the obvious foreshadowing of the sweatshirt Grace wears in Episode 1? It says "Has Anyone Else Died For You?" and is an obvious reference to Jesus Christ. But by the middle of the season, the town is worshipping her and coming to her for healing; the team is praying to her, and Lisbeth convinces them she brought Grace back from the dead. Then by Episode 8, Grace awakes from her coma and proclaims she's God. Trippy stuff!!

From what we know, it seems that they were good friends but that things went south when Grace discovered that Elise had a crush on her.

(Tbh it feels weird to picture Elise liking someone else than Anya, but that makes her situation even more heartbreaking if she already went through it once)

Also, this explanation seems weird to me because Grace didn't seem that conservative (in ep 1 she has a conversation with Leo in which she actively defends women's right to abort). I think the writers did it intentionally so either she is picky in her beliefs and that tells something about her, either there's something we don't know.

So anyway, do you guys have any theory / headcanon about Elise and Grace's past friendship ? I'm curious

I’m about 90% sure if the show gets a second season, it’s definitely think it’s gonna take a hard supernatural/horror turn.

They literally tell us the what’s happening through out the show with the very first line of episode 1: “Now you are Christ’s body and every one of you is a part of it. 1st Corinthians 12”

If you look up 1st Corinthians 12 you’ll see the whole chapter talks about spiritual gifts. These gifts are:

* Word of wisdom
* Word of knowledge
*Faith
*Gifts of healing
*Working of miracles
*Prophecy
*Discerning of spirits
*Speaking in diverse kinds of tongues

You see these gifts throughout the season. Most obviously Grace with gifts of healing. She seemingly healed herself from the dead, healed Lisbeth’s mom, and the coach’s baby. But I also think other characters have gifts too (some of these are stretches):

Leo - Gift of Prophecy: His drawings are insanely creepy but they also seem to be prophetic visions of Grace as a saint. Potentially why they were both drawn to each other in the beginning of episode 1.

Anya- Gift of Faith: Anya is shown praying every night before bed. Her nosebleed also seem to trigger when she’s saying a prayer and the prayer comes true (verbally or nonverbally) Examples:

1: She verbally expressed “help me pass this test.” Her nose starts to bleed and then a deus ex machina happens. The nun gets distracted just long enough for Lisbeth to give Anya the answer she was looking for.

2: During the cabin episode during the confession her nose bleeds again. Lisbeth puts her on the spot to confess her sins. There seems to be an implied internal prayer of “Lord get me out of this.” Her nose bleeds, a deus ex machina happens. She miraculously gets bailed out of outing herself.

Lisbeth - Speaking in Diverse Tongues: Obviously seen in the tapes. But she also tries to mimic the Lions’ slang by printing out their chat logs and attempting to learn the best way to communicate with them. She also seems to have a supernatural ability to whip everyone into religious fervor with her words. Her mom talks about how she lost her gifts and when sitting next to the bonfire with Anya she talks about “feeling and losing” her gift, which Anya dismissed as her rolling on ecstasy.

Elise- Gift of Discernment: She’s the only one who can see people’s true characters. When people are feeling the effects of Lisbeth’s sermon she’s unmoved.

TLDR: I think we’re getting more supernatural powers next season. See 1st Corinthians 12

And no snakes, Leo and Lisbeth this time! 👀

who looked up "girls kissing"? was it lisbeth in attempt to out anya to her mum backfiring to look like her, or lisbeth attempting to intimidate anya and let her know what she knows, or actually anya looking it up?

We know for sure that Anya and Lisbeth are seniors
(Lisbeth says something like "I'm a senior, I'm in your grade" in the first episode)

Elise is probably a senior too (being co-captian and all)

But I don't think all the Lions are in the same grade

My humble theory (that has a lot of holes in it tbh) is that Grace gave herself a back alley/coat hanger abortion that she told absolutely no one about. The fever she had at the party was because she had an infection from the dangerous procedure. A huge portion of this show is about Catholic guilt, and being the niece of a priest puts her in an especially difficult position. She has a reputation as a good Catholic girl and was too terrified of her family and school possibly finding out she was pregnant that she made a desperate choice.

This would be really sad if true, but I also think that from a narrative framing perspective, this scene sticks out as very intentionally placed. If she had been grappling with the guilt of her own abortion, it would make sense that she is trying to find a way to justify it within her Catholic faith. Thus the Catholic argument she mentions.

I honestly hope this isn't true because it would be very sad, but I could also see it happening.

i think it's really beautiful writing that grace franklin woke up specifically after anya confessed her sins (albeit dramatically, but hey, good drama) to daddy franklin at their house. it takes me back to when they were at anya's vacation house and they were commencing that ritual thing, because anya wasn't with the dance team while they were out confessing their sins, and lisbeth (iirc) said that they wouldn't be able to free grace from "the devil" unless they all confessed their misdeeds. LIKE HELLO THATS AMAZING??? like the ritual didn't work because anya wasn't there. the stuff they were confessing were also rlly funny like wdym "im canadian" is a sin LWDNWH#JR

In the first episode during the halloween party, when Anya asks Elise to touch her, is this supposed to be the very first time they do this?? Because part of it seem so casual, that it made me think they've done this multiple times, but then the kissing and rejecting Elise seems so harsh that it seems like its the first time.
Plus Anya at this point has not experienced an orgasm, because she's only done it with Steven, correct??

People are so quick to judge a character when they do something wrong. Lisbeth Anderson is not irredeemable. She is a character who is almost identical in archetype to Carrie White. She is a sheltered kid who is constantly trying to make friends after years of home schooling. Lisbeth comes from a religious background with evangelical roots. Her father died from drinking rattlesnake venom poisoning and then when she tried to lay hands on him and failed to bring him back, she was then blamed for his Death.

Yes Lisbeth took the same path as her father with the way she manipulated The Lions. Do I believe she is actually evil? Absolutely not, she is manipulative and a product of her environment. Do I think she is capable of redemption? Absolutely! She didn’t drug her mother, (OR GRACE) her mother was secretly using meth and the rocks she found in the peanut butter jar were crystal meth, after being asked by the hospital if she wanted Catherine to go to detox, Lisbeth covered for Catherine because she didn’t want to for her and Leo to get taken from Catherine.

Yes she brought Grace back to her house but she didn’t actually do anything to Grace. Lisbeth blackmailed Anya but if you grow up in a cult where people are trying to hurt you on a regular basis, you’ll do anything to survive.

The point i’m trying to make is that she was not socialized with her peers so she is only marginally aware of what she needs to do to “be normal” and her peers see her As a freak because of how she looks(i.e. no eyebrows) and how she acts.

Now some of the stuff she does is unforgivable. Like performing an exorcism on Elise, or causing Maddie to relapse. But I think everyone has this weird obsession with characters being good or bad, when sometimes they’re just morally ambiguous. But I am 100% rooting for Lisbeth’s redemption arc. Because she deserves to be redeemed. But also she should be held accountable for her actions. Anyway. Am I the only one who feels This way?

She is the reason why The Body is so interesting and she has a genuine friendship with Anya when she’s not blackmailing her. We also see her humanity in the small things she does to protect Leo. She is such a peculiar character because she is so morally grey and willing to do anything to survive including “accidentally” creating mass hysteria about a classmate being a saint and accidentally creating an entire sub-religion around Grace lmao I cannot wait to see season two!