Life on Mars ain’t in Uranus
November 3, 2008 by Teabag Rhino
Filed under Television Reviews
Enter 2008, New York City. The streets are dirty, the people are jaded, and I’m annoyed by the ridiculous blue camera filter! (Come on guys, the whole Matrix filter effect thing is a little overdone!) That being said, ABC’s new gritty, time-warped, existential crime drama, Life on Mars, hit the ground running. The main character, Sam Tyler (Jason O’Mara) is thrown into 1973 after a beautifully filmed ‘hit and run’ leaves him face down on the pavement literally 6 minutes and 15 seconds into the first episode. Cue David Bowie’s Life on Mars on the iPod…... [Read more of this review]
