re: Life on Mars (US) season 1
Ok, now I've seen the whole british series. Interesting. We'll see how it translates.
But the thing that gets me about the british series is how effective the actors are within their roles, in that they fill the role exceptionally well and come across as very believable.
This isn't an offense to Keitel, but he doesn't have that everyman quality to him that makes him an ideal figure for the role he's in. The dynamic between him and the character of Sam in the US version will have difficulty being as effective. That having been said, I'm now very interested to see how this goes on the US side, and there is nothing against it in it's time spot for me I give a darn about, so we'll go from there.
I do love the music; I wonder how long the premise can last. 16 episodes on the British side pretty well flushed the whole thing where it seemed reasonable. If they shoot for 100 episodes or something, the allusions to his real status are going to start seeming very weird.. I mean
Warning Spoiler! Click to showwouldn't you think at a certain point if it goes past a ton of episodes that he'd just be a vegetable, really?
I'm also wondering how many US viewers will get this. I almost wish this had the direction of someone like David Lynch, an almost Twin Peaks type US recreation rather then what it is. I really wish someone had the unaired pilot with Colm Meany, who despite his lack of major star talent in comparison to Keitel, he could have offered the role a more oafish crooked cop that might have been more effective and believable.
