Last Nox ’s installment of sentence - traveling cop show Life On Mars was the first episode not loosely based on the British version . And if that ’s the guidance the show aims to go in from now on , I ’m a shade concerned . I miss Journeyman , last twelvemonth ’s show about a man unstuck in time . It used to convey the horrors and episodic profoundness of the past in much subtler , and smart , way . This feel like a one - hour moral in margin and sweetness , wrapped up in a too - loud soundtrack and cap off with some weak humour . Did you get laid that gay - bashing was wrong ? And that gays are people too ? If not , then maybe you ’d be interested in being brow - beaten by Jason O’Mara and Harvey Keitel about it . The scene where Keitel chide Michael Imperioli about how it ’s still untimely to shoot down people even if they ’re gay was the bad , mostly because Keitel reckon narcoleptic as usual . If I ’m lead to be rag on margin , I ’d like my lecturer at least to be half - alive . Just in case you really did drowse off during this episode , here ’s what take place . The bunch from the 125 found a dead Vietnam Veteran in the common , and Harvey Keitel went ballistic ( well , sort of . He squeeze in his quietus ) about solve the law-breaking . At first , the crew thought the dirty anti - war hipsters had done it , which was our cue for lots of scenes of people trip the light fantastic in hotpants and Sam having weird acid - y flashback even though he had n’t dropped any dose . And then Sam cope with the beat guy ’s faggy comptroller ( this show is subtle ! ! ) and had to be told in very simple words that the dead guy was probably queer . Eventually , Sam convinced Harvey of this fact , and then they sent the prettiest of the young bull out to the parking area to suffice as “ bait ” for the gay bashers . They caught the gay - bashers , but it wrench out the dead guy wire ’s squad leader had actually done it , because the police squad drawing card was all closet . In the end , Sam did n’t have the heart to state the utter guy ’s wife he was actually merry . fundamentally , someone reached in a bag of Topical seventies Issues , and find “ Vietnam , ” “ hippies , ” “ gurus , ” and “ gay - bashing . ” And they sort of threw them together in a random order . And the humor ? Erk . The whole line where the pretty cop realize his uncle was gay , because he met a guy in the park who expect sort of like the uncle ? The way Sam kept say he believed in the whimsical culicues of fate ? And my personal pet peeve , the prison - rape - is - hilarious scene ? ( “ Major sodomy ” involves kissing ! Ha ha ha ha ! ) This was the first time I mat up as though my worst fears about this U.S. remake were justified . Actually , there ’s a bigger problem with the show at this point than the whole “ show we ’re more enlightened than those 70 trogoldytes ” motif . And that ’s the tall mallow factor . The big fear , with the U.S. Life On Mars , was that it was going to flirt up the kitschy scene of the other 70s , and the producers have gone out of their way to insist they ’re not going to do that . “ No lava lamps , ” they told newsperson , including me . And last night ’s episode , with the random Maharishi and silly hippies , came a bit close for comfort . I do n’t know , perchance I ’m being too hard on it . It did have periodic moments of charm . And I was really like this show until now . What did you cat conceive ?
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