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Life on Mars: The Complete Second Series (U.K.)

John Simm (Actor), Philip Glenister (Actor), Andrew Gunn (Director), Rated:

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Genre	Mystery & Thrillers
Format	Multiple Formats, Box set, Color, NTSC, Widescreen
Contributor	Ian Puleston-Davies, Noreen Kershaw, Julie Rutterford, Archie Panjabi, Andrew Gunn, Chris Chibnall, Lorraine Cheshire, Paul Sharma, Alex Reid, S.J. Clarkson, Richard Clark, Ashley Pharoah, Guy Jenkin, Dean Andrews, Marshall Lancaster, Tim Plester, John Simm, Philip Glenister, Mark Greig, Liz White See more
Language	English
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In reimagining the detective genre, this U.K. series won sky-high viewer-ratings, unqualified critical praise, and loads of awards, including two International Emmys and a BAFTA. Knocked unconscious in a traffic collision, modern-day police detective Sam Tyler (John Simm, State of Play) wakes up in 1973 with a bullying boss (Philip Glenister, Cranford), surly squad mates, and completely different rules. The flawless cast, fun 70s references, and first-rate writing all build to a tension-filled finale.

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Best television show of the decade. -- PopMatters.com

It transcends television to become, simply, superb entertainment. -- PopMatters.com

Just Flawless. -- DVDTalk.com

The genius of this series is simply awe-inspiring. -- San Francisco Chronicle

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Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ Unrated (Not Rated)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 0.7 x 5.4 inches; 11.2 Ounces
Item model number ‏ : ‎ ACRN8325DVD
Director ‏ : ‎ Andrew Gunn, Richard Clark, S.J. Clarkson
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Multiple Formats, Box set, Color, NTSC, Widescreen
Run time ‏ : ‎ 7 hours and 48 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ November 24, 2009
Actors ‏ : ‎ John Simm, Philip Glenister, Liz White, Dean Andrews, Marshall Lancaster
Language ‏ : ‎ Unqualified
Studio ‏ : ‎ ACORN MEDIA
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B002AS45NI
Writers ‏ : ‎ Ashley Pharoah, Chris Chibnall, Guy Jenkin, Julie Rutterford, Mark Greig
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 4

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Roy Guill

The Original and Best

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 3, 2010

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When I first heard about the American Life On Mars I thought "Good lord. How does somebody come up with THAT?" My wife and I watched the short-lived series and enjoyed it (All but the rushed and silly final episode). While searching for information online about the possibility of the show going to SyFy or some other channel I discovered the "Real" Life on Mars. If all you've seen is the pale American imitation, drop what you are doing and order Seasons 1 and 2 of the BBC original RIGHT NOW. (Even if you watched it on BBC America, you only saw 3/4 of each episode)

The performances are fantastic, the story is original and they don't pull any punches. John Simm is fantastic as the lost Sam Tyler and Philip Glenister tears it up as DCI Gene Hunt. After watching the BBC series I was frankly insulted by the dumbed-down American version. LOM takes us through Sam's journey into the past and leaves us satisfied when the series has run its course. The show is filled with great 70's-era music and is an incredible homage to the 70's cop genre while still filling the bill as a modern procedural.

Like a little cop show in your sci-fi? A little of the fantastic with your Starsky & Hutch? Pick up Life On Mars. You will NOT be sorry.

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 5, 2017

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Someone put radical thought into this show from the first episode to the last. Don't try to rationalize and connect the scientific dots, just enjoy the philosophical ride. Are we more awake when we're asleep? Are we more asleep when we're awake? If we were all to take a truthful, introspective look at our lives, what fantastic vision would we dare to conceive if we found ourselves on the other side of the looking glass? Perhaps, if we dare, we may admit that we all dream at some point or the other to be more of our true selves; the selves we set aside in the real world. The challenge is and will always be choice. The chase is and will always be the freedom to choose. The crisis is the fear of letting go of fear, and allowing choice. Hooray for those who choose to feel...who choose to be alive.

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You're Nicked

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 3, 2021

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Gene Hunt and Sam Tyler.. gosh I miss the times at The Railway Arms.

Great series.

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Mr. E.

The song goes on...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 5, 2009

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One of the best TV series we've watched in years. Original, well written and produced, and the cast played their parts perfectly. It may help that I grew up in the UK during the period in which this is set but, even if you did not, it should still be well worth the view - you don't need to understand all the references but you'll probably get more out of it if you do.

I don't often like sequels but have been sufficiently impressed by this that I'll be watching Ashes To Ashes as soon as I can get my hands on the DVDs.

Highly recommended for anyone that grew up in the 70s. Recommended for anyone that enjoys great (British) TV series.

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Joseph

Is There Really BluRay on Mars?

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 2, 2010

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I was delighted to see that Season Two of this series was available in BluRay format. Although I felt some caution at seeing the accompanying statement, "The manufacturer has discontinued this product", I took a chance, since none of the reviews said "it won't play on your machine". I discovered that my Sony BDP S350 player does play the episodes; but it hums quite audibly when loading and reading each new segment of the disc. The really disappointing discovery was that none of the special features will play. Their titles appear on the screen, but when they are selected, the screen refreshes to the main menu. The issue is the same for the special features on both discs. I'm really curious to see the "making of" bits, so I have requested the DVD version from my local library. I don't feel like buying the season over again in DVD format.

Also, I know it's heretical, but my viewers think the DVD version I own of Season One looks and sounds just as good as this one.

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charlies mom

One of my favorite shows

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 30, 2015

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I watched this series when BBCAmerica aired it a long time ago. After watching it again it still holds up. John Simm and the rest of the cast are great, the story is interesting and the characters and script is well written. If you haven't seen it and you like British television I would highly recommend it. If you watched the American version this one is much, much better.

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They're back!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 5, 2010

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Thank you thank you BBC for finally releasing this amazing show in a format those of us in the U.S. can view. This show was that remarkable combination of comedy, drama, and fantasy that is almost always doomed to fail, and somehow through amazing acting and brilliant writing this wonderful show managed to not only get away with it, but to excel at it. This is the only show I've ever seen that could have me laughing one second after choking back tears. Bravo BBC! Now make more like this.

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Greg

Very Entertaining

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 28, 2014

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Just watched the series again. It is so much better than the American version. The depiction of life in the 70s was quiet accurate. This show has a very original plot with some strange (paranormal?) elements but I think they blended the strange bits in well. I found the ending to be very satisfactory.

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Paul Davies

Funny, tragic, fast paced, slick;just what your tv needs! Be very impressed. Buy it!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 2, 2014

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If you do not watch this then your life will never be complete. A Materclass in how tv series should be made, this won numerous awards, accolades and created a cult following that was, for once, hugely deserved. Telling the continued story of a tragic accident, travelling back in time to the flares, music and cars of the 70s, seen through the eyes of a politically corrected police officer of the Millenium. 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. Sam gets frequent visions of what's happening to him whilst he's lying on his hospital bed back in the future. Or at least that's one of the options he's exploring. Could be that he's hallucinating the whole thing. There's no way to know.
Startlingly brilliant, funny and sad, great 70s music by Bowie, Roxy Music and so many others cleverly woven into stories. You will long fondly remember this.Funny, tragic, fast paced, slick;just what your tv needs! Be very impressed. Buy it!
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A. Whitehead

A rich and satisfying finale to the series

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 28, 2009

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Sam Tyler is still stuck in 1973, unsure if he has somehow really travelled backwards in time or if he is merely stuck in a coma in 2006 and is fantasising everything that is happening to him. However, now he has been there for a few weeks he is getting more used to life in the 1970s and is starting to downplay the unusual auditory and visual hallucinations he continues to suffer from. But, just as things seem to be settling down, questions about Sam's previous 1970s life in 'Hyde' before relocating to Manchester arise, and set in chain a sequence of events which could lead Sam home...wherever that is.

Life on Mars' second season was the last, due to a combination of the producers not wishing to over-exploit the concept and lead actor John Simm's well-known reluctance to be typecast in a long-running television series. It was a bold decision for a series that had become a big hit on British television and done the seemingly impossible by getting audiences fired up over a cop show.

The second season offers up pretty much more of the same as the first season: Sam and Gene butt heads over their different approaches to policing, but they have, grudgingly, accepted that each has skills the other does not, and when they combine their approaches it often leads to good results. Sam and Annie continue to not quite get it together in the tradition of all great TV will-they, won't-they romances, and Sam continues to be haunted by hallucinations of his life in 2006 which relate to his current situation in 1973. The show also moves onto slightly more contentious ground in Season 2 by covering the more controversial subject of IRA terrorism in one episode whilst continuing to examine the extent of corruption and heavy-handed methods in the 1970s police force.

In my review of Season 1, I mentioned that the show's continuous use of Sam's odd mental state occasionally gets a little exasperating, as sometimes you'd quite like to just see Sam and Gene butt heads and then solve the crime without Sam freaking out every twenty minutes. The producers play on this in two episodes in particular in the second season, one in which Sam doesn't have any odd experiences and starts getting worried about the lack of them, and another in which Sam reacts very badly to whatever is happening to him in the present and has to sit most of the investigation out. This latter episode, which is by far the most 'freak-out' intensive of the series, also perversely is one of the very best episodes, with flashbacks showing how they operated before he arrived (and giving rise to the unusual sight of scenes not featuring Sam, which feels odd as he is in every other single scene of every other episode of the whole series).

Of course, as good as the individual episodes are (and they are pretty damn good), the one episode that everyone will be left talking about is the very last one. British SF is awash with series-ending episodes that leave the audience reeling and talking about them for years or decades afterwards: Blake's 7, Sapphire and Steel and The Prisoner being the most notable (Quantum Leap's befuddling finale is probably the USA's closest equivalent). Life on Mars joins their august ranks with a finale that takes the viewer on a crazy existential rollercoaster ride as we finally get an answer for what is going on with Sam, but that answer is in turn supplanted by another, contradictory one in a manner that would make Christopher Priest proud. Which is the truth and which do we believe? The finale operates on multiple levels of reality with the viewer not quite able to trust what is going on. There is a very clear 'obvious' possible answer for what is going on, but just as with David Lynch's Mulholland Drive, that 'obvious' answer still leaves other, key questions unanswered.

Taken in isolation, Life on Mars' finale is very strong indeed. However, the news that a sequel/spin-off series was forthcoming which would shed more light on events did dilute the strength of that finale a bit, and Ashes to Ashes' plot developments have indeed plunged much of what we thought we knew from Life on Mars' finale into doubt. But further examination of that series is for another review.

The second season of Life on Mars (****½) is thoroughly entertaining, funny, thought-provoking and just the right side of ambiguous. It draws a line under the series and sets up the sequel series quite nicely. It is available now in the UK (DVD, Blu-Ray) and will be released in the USA on DVD in November.

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anonBod

Fantastic stuff!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 26, 2007

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I think in many ways series 2 of this quality drama exceeds the first.

It is more driven and piles on the plot in ways that are imaginative and complex.

The extra's on this DVD are also more slickly put together and professional.

I still have some extras left to watch but can only say at the end of the series I felt that I'd just watched something highly significant and wonderful.

The two complete series as drama will no doubt be studied forever by budding film students. And watched by new generations as it is repeated down the line.

I thought it was wonderful that something this bold could be made now amidst a 'reality tv' society. And perhaps it will lead the way for other production companies to take risks as the writers here did in order to push boundaries and bring more quality to the screen.

As said before in my review of series one - though it lacks the masterful genius of Dennis Potter (see The Singing Detective, which is simply one of the best dramas I've ever seen) - it brings an intelligent thought provoking drama to mainstream. Particularly in this series - this drama is entitled to 5 stars of its own.

Watch it then tell all your friends to watch it!

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Robert Johnson

I will never remember Camberwick Green in the same way again!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 4, 2008

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I am one of those sad individuals who learn about a rave new TV show two thirds the way into the second series and as such, having missed the first series and a half, had no idea what to expect. The first episode I watched in both series was the final one of series 2. My timing has never been that good!

So when Ashes To Ashes came on I watched all of that - and look forward to the chance to get my hands on Keeley Hawes (did I mean that?) again when it comes out on DVD. So, to get the gist, I bought series 1 a couple of weeks ago and series 2 last week. Then, after a lot of watching DVDs I understood that final episode - or did I?

The whole idea is unique in a sense, unless you discount Dr Sam Beckett, for that is another series altogether, and the creation of DCI Gene Hunt is altogether fantastic but what entertainment! Laugh? There were moments I was crying with laughter. My wife says he reminds her of me - Mmmm.

But I was not prepared for the opening sequence for the later episode in series 2 which began with a mock version of Camberwick Green, with Sam Tyler coming out of the box to be asked how he was doing. What happened next was a coffee moment - if I had a cat it would have been covered!

Buy this, along with series 1 and have a great time. I cannot wait to sit and watch the whole thing once again, from start to finish.

Great TV. Worth the licence fee just to watch this!

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Rob Barron

Idyllic Life on Mars!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 9, 2009

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What can I say? Life on Mars is the most politically incorrect show on TV which really rubs the noses in the dirt of all the PC brigade who tell us what we are allowed to say in these nanny state modern times. I LOVE IT!

Don't get me wrong, I would never say something aimed at hurting someone nor does this show try to do so. It just doesn't pamper to the current trend of modern society who insists we shouldn't call a blackboard black or a whiteboard white in case they offend black or white people. I am mixed race and not offended by either term.

As this show is set in the 70's, they use the same terminology that anyone else in the 70s used... and it makes great watching. The stories are interesting and actually quite clever as the 'hero' tries to work out how he can get out of his coma and slip back into the 21st century where he came from. There is some excellent humour as well which seeks to laugh at all of us both then and now... no bad thing in days where we tend to take ourselves far too seriously!

Watneys Party 7 pack of ale anyone? :o)

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