Life on Mars is currently my favorite show. In a nutshell (this is the IMDb quick plot outline): "After being involved in a car accident in 2006, DCI Sam Tyler (Simm) wakes up to find himself in 1973, the era of 'Sweeney' type policing, Mark III Cortinas, and flared trousers." That's what it's about. But it's only the barest outline of what it's really about, as Sam---aware that his real self is lying in a coma in the 21st Century and that somehow or other every move he makes in his dream life or alternative life controls his fate in the "real world"---adjusts to policing in the Seventies.
None but the Brits could produce something so dark, so darkly funny, so witty, so gritty, so bleak and violent, and so intrinsically terrifying----or so beautifully produced and acted. See the BBC website (quite cool), and for a detailed synopsis, Wikipedia (no reason to reinvent the wheel).
Some of You Tube's fans have created "tribute vids." The best part of these is that they include the David Bowie theme song, "Life on Mars," sadly missing from the second series. (Hearing this made me realize that I needed more David Bowie in my life).
If you don't have BBC America, I am really, really sorry.....
This, by the way, is yet ANOTHER reason you need BBC America. Seriously. No one should miss this amazing series.
This one is by cdtall.good
Another! By Hillkatback.
This is a rather sweet tribute, with the young person who posted it performing the music, quite well I believe. By TheSmi
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