Life: Season 2, Episode 1 "Find Your Happy Place" (F)
Like fellow sophomore NBC drama "Lipstick Jungle," I watched the pilot of "Life" and found it utterly uninteresting and truthfully a terrible show. Oddly enough, this show actually got rave reviews from some and earned a full season rather quickly, unlike "Jungle," which was more of a surprise pickup. In any case, like "Jungle," this show is no better than it was the first time around. Sarah Shahi, so terrific as Carmen on "The L Word," is absolutely wasted as Crews' partner Reese. Casting Noel Fisher as a suspect is a dead giveaway - obviously he did it. The show just isn't clever to make it stand out in any way from all the "Law & Order" franchise shows, and Crews' investigation into how framed him is still going on? The most bizarre thing to me is the addition of Donal Logue as a series regular. The guy is known for his comedy, and was one of the reasons "The Knights of Prosperity" was actually funny. He is totally miscast here, and his scene telling Reese that he'd like to have someone like her in his life one day and then taking it back is painful at best. I will not be checking back in with this show anytime soon.
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Monday, September 10, 2007
Pilot Review: Life
Life (NBC)
Premieres September 26 at 10pm
This show is through-and-through trite from the first moment. Scratch that, the second moment. The first scene quickly catches the audience up on the fact that cop Charlie Crews served twelve years behind bars for a crime he did not commit before being released and reinstated. He is not some hardened, pissed off criminal as you might expect but rather a strange "House" wannabe who stares off into space while telling people to flush their stash of pot because the other cops are on the way. Actor Damian Lewis, who should not take full responsibility for his dismal performance, is paired with Sarah Shahi, who is on her way downhill with this show. After a starter role on "Alias" a few years back and fascinating turns on "The L Word", "The Sopranos", and "Sleeper Cell", she does what? A procedural cop show. And surprise - her boss wants her to spy on Charlie to try to get him kicked off the force. That has never happened before. Every scene, every conversation feels overdone to death. There is really nothing to recommend about this show except if you are a car enthusiast: Charlie mumbles "I am not connected to this car" for about five minutes straight as the camera zooms in on his car for a nifty car commerical smack dab in the middle of the show.
How will it work as a series? Well, he already went back to prison to interview someone in the FIRST EPISODE, so let's see how fast that gets old. If Sarah Shahi can bring out some of that talent she has shown, maybe she can try to save the show, but prospects are not good.
How long will it last? I give it three episodes.
Pilot grade: F
Premieres September 26 at 10pm
This show is through-and-through trite from the first moment. Scratch that, the second moment. The first scene quickly catches the audience up on the fact that cop Charlie Crews served twelve years behind bars for a crime he did not commit before being released and reinstated. He is not some hardened, pissed off criminal as you might expect but rather a strange "House" wannabe who stares off into space while telling people to flush their stash of pot because the other cops are on the way. Actor Damian Lewis, who should not take full responsibility for his dismal performance, is paired with Sarah Shahi, who is on her way downhill with this show. After a starter role on "Alias" a few years back and fascinating turns on "The L Word", "The Sopranos", and "Sleeper Cell", she does what? A procedural cop show. And surprise - her boss wants her to spy on Charlie to try to get him kicked off the force. That has never happened before. Every scene, every conversation feels overdone to death. There is really nothing to recommend about this show except if you are a car enthusiast: Charlie mumbles "I am not connected to this car" for about five minutes straight as the camera zooms in on his car for a nifty car commerical smack dab in the middle of the show.
How will it work as a series? Well, he already went back to prison to interview someone in the FIRST EPISODE, so let's see how fast that gets old. If Sarah Shahi can bring out some of that talent she has shown, maybe she can try to save the show, but prospects are not good.
How long will it last? I give it three episodes.
Pilot grade: F
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