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Sam Tyler was a cop in 2008 he got
hit by a car and got transported
back to 1973 where oddly enough
everything kind of fit into place.
He has an apartment, he has a job as
a cop and everything fits too
well together for it to make sense.
Sam works as a cop solving cases on
the 124th Precinct and all the while
he tries to figure out a way to get
home.
The best thing about Life on Mars
was the casting Harvey Keitel as
Gene Hunt was brilliant. One of my
favorite characters to come onto TV
in the past few years and the main
character; Sam was just kind of a a
badass. He was good in every
embodiment of the sense but he
didn’t trivialize over useless stuff
just because it might have been a
little wrong. Plus you add in
Michael Imperioli as Ray Carling and
you’ve got a great group of
characters to center a series
around.
So the cast was excellent and even
the individual storylines were
written very well. Really there
wasn’t an episode that ran on the
series that didn’t make sense or
shouldn’t have been there. It jus
worked. The music supervision on the
series was also stellar and that’s
an important piece of any series
these days.
Life on Mars only lasted one season.
I think mostly because the idea of a
time traveling cop to 1973 might
have been a slight stretch for
audiences to just tune in and
turn on.
The good thing about this series on
DVD though is that they actually
gave the series an ending on TV.
It’s one of the oddest finales of a
show I’ve ever seen and it’s worth
watching just for that reason. The
DVD set is four discs and 23
episodes plus some behind the scenes
footage. Life on Mars was a great
show, it’s too bad it didn’t last
longer but you can relive it on this
DVD set.
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