Life on Mars is about a Manchester City police detective, Sam Tyler, who was knocked to the ground by a car while working on a case. After waking up from a coma, he found that his 4×4 had been transformed into a 30-year-old model, with his Documents transferred to Manchester Police Station. It turned out that he went back to 1973, still working in the same building, and became a subordinate of another police detective, Gene Hunt. Gene is DCI (Detective Chief Instpector), and Sam is DI (Dectective Inspector). The relationship between the team leader and several police detectives, including the uniformed policewoman Annie (WPC Woman Police Constable).
It's easy to think of a story like this as a comedy like "Back to Future," and Life on Mars
had some of that at the beginning of its first season, like Sam saying "find my mobile" to a uniformed police officer. ", the other side replied: "mobile what?", Sam said "I was driving a jeep", the other side replied "You are driving a military vehicle?" but quickly dropped these little jokes and turned to describing Sam and Gene In the conflict between the two, Sam advocates the 21st century case handling method. In addition to following the rules, he will also talk about evidence, technical identification, fingerprints, DNA, statistical analysis of data, persuading witnesses to cooperate, etc.; Detectives often pick up and beat the suspects who are found guilty, and they are confident in this method. What stands out about Life on Mars is that this conflict is rendered into a kind of self-deprecating black humor, which then rises to a sense of the absurd.
An open question for Life on Mars is Sam's origins. Did he travel back in time? Or are these stories all his dreams in a coma after a car accident? There is also a third theory that these stories, including contemporary police back in 1973, etc., are all imaginary of the mentally ill Sam. Sam often finds that when he watches TV, the characters on the TV are talking to him, and this detail may not be the first, but it is very suitable here. This uncertainty about Sam's origin also adds to the absurdity of the story. At the end of the first season, Sam encounters his childhood self, trying to solve the mystery of his father's disappearance, but the story is told here, not limited to the dead knot of "can change history" that often appears in time travel dramas, but focuses on Can Sam unravel the knot in his heart about his father's disappearance. This treatment of Life on Mars is one of the reasons I enjoy the show.
There are two other important roles besides Sam. One is Gene Hunt, whose character and way of doing things are just the opposite of Sam's, completely "politically incorrect", but for today's audience, this character brings a nostalgic "carefree" era, the audience almost I hope that the current police can be as vicious as Gene and dare to act. Another character, Annie, is the only character on the show trying to understand Sam, Sam's secret, only she knows, she can always listen to Sam's strange stories about his origins with sympathy and love. Annie's role in the play is also to show the low status of women in the male world of the police station. In the second season, she was promoted from Uniform Policewoman (WPC) to Woman Detective Constable (WDC, Woman Detective Constable). But I still think she's sexier in a police uniform.
Too bad Life on Mars is gone after the second season. It is said that two endings have been filmed, and there must be a clear account of Sam's origin. There will be a new show called Ashes to Ashes, about Gene Hunt 8 years later (1981). That's how British series is. It's rare to have many seasons, and not many episodes per season.
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