Simply dreadful. This is the quintessence of everything that's wrong with American network television. It's a frame for frame remake of an extraordinary British TV show that manages to miss the entire point. It's clumsy, inept, politically "correct" and, all in all, awful. The acting is mixed, to put it kindly. But the direction and the writing are everything that we've come to expect from the big four networks. I know that there are people, mainly in the flyover states, who've missed out on the last fifty odd years but they are, thank God, a dying breed. Network TV needs to wake up. There's a reason that people watch cable shows. Life on Mars might have been even better than the UK version. Shameless managed it. The US version was even better than the UK version but as long as the big four networks believe that we're living in the 1950s they will continue to lose ratings.
Review of Life on Mars
