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I'm ashamed to say that I live in the United States. I was lucky enough, however, to catch an episode of the original series on BBCA. I was glued to the screen the entire time, utterly entertained and interested in the plot and characters. I was thinking about purchasing the series when I saw an advertisement on television. "The acclaimed British crime drama is coming to America" it said. I decided to record a few episodes, one of which I watched today. Almost immediately, I began to suspect the wrong program had been recorded.
The first five or ten minutes was a pretty awful, rushed and messy CSI ripoff. It was uncomfortably wedged in before the major event that sets up the whole series. It wavered from two minutes of boring to two minutes of action, and back again. If you're going to re-make a series, nothing's wrong with an occasional nod to the original, but here they're obvious and painful. It's like they're jumping around with a sign that says "This happened in the original series too!" After the aforementioned major event occurred, I turned it off and swiftly deleted this program from my schedule. Amazon here I come. This reinforces the idea that America should never re-make British television. It lacks everything that made the original Life on Mars so enjoyable to watch. AVOID AT ALL COSTS!
score 1/10
arc_a2007 10 October 2008
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