Life On Mars - Series 1 Reviews

Policing at it's best!!

This is how policing should be!!

Well, some of it.....no red tape, no bloody human rights....

Oh, and it is a fantastic series, John Simm & Philip Glenister are brilliant actors....it's just a shame it can't go on for more and more series.

It would be good for Sam to go back to his year and meet DCI Hunt as an old man, and they have one of those 'deja vu' moments....

Get it, watch it and fully enjoy it!!

Cracking stuff from the Beeb!

I watched the first episode of this and was instantly hooked. The stories are great, the skips between modern day and the 70's are trippy man!! Its actually quite scary to watch the policing methods from back then. Warning, you WILL be hooked after the first look!

Quantum leaps meets kojak?!

Saw this on tv and was hooked and glued for the entire series. Top notch acting with indepth plots and the time-trip mystery that continues to keep you guessing until.........!

This is must watch tv to be grabbed and savoured. The Americans are having a bash at remaking it for them over the pond so I presume we will be seeing a Starsky and Hutch approach at some point in the future. This is required viewing of the highest order for story, sub-plot, acting and sheer brilliance of concept but as said, be warned - Series 2 has been commissioned by the beeb...

a fine blend

ok! so it's a cross between 'quantum leap', 'the sweeney' with a touch of 'the wizard of oz'. give this blend a twist of northern-england life in the '70s, and for those of us who are old enough to remember when their parents had rodger whittaker records on their chrome record racks, this is an excellent piece of television. great characters and superb script (especially when the 1973 and 2006 cultures trip over each other).

[Highly rated reviewer]

'Life On Mars'

There is something lacking about these series, it is more like the appropriation of unreality, like a staged Adult ' Mr Benn'' series where for whatever reason, the hero is allowed to exhibit the worst excesses of moral narcissism, and the supporting actors are used to placate this smugness. It is all very manipulative and there is more of this in Feb. I just wish the BBC didn't feel so proud about itself for more such mediocrity

Makes you wonder!

I'd seen a couple of episodes when screened on the TV and decided to get the DVD's. Hmm, my wife watched one and loved them all - addictive viewing to say the least.

There are some scenes that make's you wonder how things have changed - I can relate to that year! To mention just one scene that had me laughing so much... He asks prior on them going to arrest some potentially violent criminal, 'What protection are they wearing, have they got anti-stab vests?' (and a few other things). The reply he gets is 'They got their helmets!'. In the context it's said and the timing it makes instant viewing appeal. Well thought out plots and perfect timing and acting makes the episodes compulsive viewing.

The other issue really is that was it better then or is it better now? Those who can relate to that year will no doubt have the answer!

Life On Mars

Boring didn't go anywhere or do anything at all interesting , one for the old pretentious Potato Sacks to watch on a sunday afternoon after EastEnders has finished , It sent me to sleep

very good

you lot just live to complain how can you give this a bad review, and one you said the 'best thing about this movie is when it ended' god you don't even know that your reviewing a tv series lol......... anyway this a good tv series recommend it to anyone

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overrated

Naive, unrealistic, plodding writing, insufficiently developed and crassly imposed plot arc, inexplicably popular, shamed by comparison with similar HBO series. Take for example the episode where our hero tackled a fearsome gang boss, defeating him using nothing more than steely integrity, the power of his idealism and the trusty sword of truth. The locations and cinamatography are well done, though.

Ah yes. Lives up to the hype.

If you liked Spooks (same production company), and/or you liked The Sweeney, and/or you like a fast paced action drama with interesting characters developed in some depth then you will like this.