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

[librarylover82.livejournal.com]

I am jealous, because I like Life on Mars very much. Have you seen Ashes to Ashes? It is the sequel, set in the 1980's.

[abbyromana.livejournal.com]

I've seen the U.K version and I loved it too! :)
However, I know what you mean about Simm's character.He can be borderline annoying on doing the right thing. Yet, it's him taking that led that ends up making the difference in the stories. I truly feel sorry for him, but at the same time, I think as I watch I think he's better off there than back in modern day. ;)

[greatbriton.livejournal.com]

oooh I love Life on Mars! so freaking good

[alouzon.livejournal.com]

Yay, I'm glad you got a copy!

Mmmm... John Simm....





OK, I'm back.

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

Now, Gene Hunt would sort out the Master pretty quickly, I'd imagine.

[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!

[thisbluespirit]

I'm so glad you like it! It blew me away, too, although I nearly didn't watch it, because the only whole episode I caught, other than the last was ep 7, which is written by that Man of Evil, Chris Chibnall and I thought, "Hmm, and it looked so much better in the last five mins of ep 1." Luckily, I caught the last episode after all, and was hooked. I had to get the DVDs to see the other eps eventually, but was glue to S2 and A2A when it was on.

I can see how watching it after Simm was the Master rather than before, as those of us over here, did, could be very disturbing. Poor Sam. Heh.

But, I'm bouncing about happily here to think you like it; it just isn't like anything else that I can think of. Might well be the UK's TV show of the decade in my book. (Although that does include Spooks, and that was also Kudos and also ground-breaking when it started - it's just easier to forget that, since 2002. Obviously, DW returned, but, no - Spooks or LoM, definitely!)