Life on Mars

[clocketpatch]

Walmart has actually come through for once. Though I totally nicked the last copy in the store (actually, I think it was the only copy the store had, period, but whatever)

I'm hooked. Damnit! I just spent six episodes glued to the screen being absolutely entranced by how marvelously wonderfully amazing this show is. I already want series two. Why are there only eight episodes? Whhhy???

Everyone who recommends this show is right.

My mother was hooked to it as well, and it's so rare to find something we both love now a days. I think it helped that the one time she visited the UK was in 1973. So she just keeps pointing at things and nodding.

I've only got two problems with it:

One: I love Simm's character to bits, but every so often he step over the boundary into preachey-obnoxious land, and I just want to give him a smack.

and

Two: I keep picturing him in dress and laughing inappropriately, causing my mother to give me strange looks.

Comments

[alto2.livejournal.com]

I don't think there's ever been a show that's blown me away so completely as LoM did. It's the stuff of legend now. I can't imagine having to wait a week to see the next episode--one of my friends and I watched it together and on two separate occasions we watched five episodes in a row (which is doubtless why they tend to run together when I think back on them, but I don't care!).

If anything, S2 is even better. The next-to-last episode is my very favorite, though they're all damn good. Wait till you get to A2A!

[clocketpatch]

I've thrown budgeting and common sense to the wind to buy series 2 on an Amazon boxing day deal. It should arrive in 2-4 weeks. I don't know how I'll wait that long. Stuff of legend is the way to describe it.