Well. That was just… stupid.
I remember thinking if the series ended with Sam being in a coma, I’d be ticked. I’ve changed my mind. What would really annoy me was if the whole thing was a dream by some astronaut on his way to an actual landing mission on Mars. But not as much as [...]
[I never wrote a summary for this episode when it aired. So here it is, just in case you're interested. And also so I'll have something to link to for my review of "Revenge of Broken Jaw." (I like to link.)]
Poor Sam Tyler, 38 years old and he still has daddy issues.
The squad is waiting [...]
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I want to like this show. It has a great cast. It has tons of interesting characters just waiting be fleshed out. And yet, I’m not being pulled in. Is Sam’s penchant for crying at the drop of a hat (or, in the case of this episode, a video clip of President Obama’s inauguration) supposed [...]
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I watched the movie Dreamgirls last night. I tell you this because we had not only a Supremes knock-off, we had a James Brown knock-off, a Four Tops knock-off, and a Bo Diddly knock-off. And on this week’s Life on Mars, we have a KISS knock-off. Oh yeah, and we get an X-files knock-off as [...]
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Jason OMara as Sam Tyler on ABC
Well, well, it looks like Live on Mars (the US version) is back on tv, and I didn’t get the memo. I’ve missed two episodes already, not to mention I never wrote a review for the last (very pivotal) episode before the hiatus. So, look for some new reviews [...]
Watching this week’s episode of Life on Mars, I felt like I was being handed all these puzzle pieces, and my mind started trying to put them all together. Every week there’s a new piece to the puzzle. But it’s not like Lost, where there’s ten thousand pieces and a hundred questions asked [...]
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I’m going to guess that the title for this episode came from a song. But I’ve never heard of it.
We start with a red-headed woman in a red dress singing a boy named Sammy to sleep. As Sammy nods off, he drops his Red Rover toy, which rolls all the way into a sleeping Sam [...]
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Hey, look at that. I spelled “maharishi” correctly on the first try.
Seriously, if you’re going to do an episode about a Navy veteran, at least do a little research. Navy special ops guys are called Seals not Black Berets. They don’t work in squads, and if they did, the squad leader would be [...]
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Initally, this episode didn’t leave much of an impression on me, but in retrospect, it was more enjoyable than I remembered.
Temporally (not temporarily) displaced detective Sam Tyler is writing a list of all possibilities for his new 1973 reality on a chalkboard. The list includes the very obvious “coma,” the not-so-likely “very intense drug [...]
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Is there “Life” for “Mars”?
Probably not. And I say this not by looking at Life on Mars‘ (shrinking) ratings or its decreasing “Renew / Cancel” index. This theory is solely my own based on two unscientific measurements.
1. The time ABC allots for the series: When Life on Mars premiered on Thursdays behind Grey’s Anatomy last fall, it ran for [...]
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