You don’t seem like the rest of them and you’re clever enough to know what you’re saying can’t be true. –Annie
In this original BBC series [which coincidentally the canceled American television show copies almost exactly], Detective Inspector Sam Tyler [John Simm] gets hit by a car in 2006 and wakes up in 1973 back in his own Manchester police office. Naturally he flips out. He cannot believe it is 1973 or any of this is real. Tyler befriends and confides in Annie [Liz White], an officer in the women’s division of the force [to the dismay of his colleagues he treats her as an equal and values her input on cases]. Here’s the kicker: in 2006 his partner and girlfriend Maya [Archie Panjabi] had been killed by a serial killer; now in 1973, a serial killer seems to be following the same m.o. as the one in 2006. Coincidence for Tyler? This is the nightmare from which he cannot awake. Everything is foreign to him and he cannot grasp how outdated and seemingly backwards everything is in 1973. The other detectives behave boorishly and in an unregulated manner that often does not sit well with Tyler. And this is something he has to come to terms with every day in order to work with this force. Life on Mars makes everyone in 1973 seem dumb, woefully untrained, chauvinistic, and almost savage. And ironically, they were. Life on Mars is a clever program with a mix of vintage and present tone and style. The unpredictability of the show will keep you watching.
DVD Bonus Features: “Take a Look at the Lawman,” a behind-the-scenes documentary that includes interviews with cast and crew interviews; interview with director Bharat Nalluri; and a featurette about the music of Life on Mars with composer Ed Butt
<!–
document.write('
‘);
//–>
