Life: Season Two

AT THE TIME OF WRITING THIS REVIEW, I DID NOT KNOW THE SERIES HAD BEEN CANCELLED!

I’ve watched both seasons. This show needs to do some radical pruning in order to to make it the excellent show which glimmers through the convoluted mess of a plot which tries to drag it under week after week. It is fine that Charlie returns to being a cop after being awarded tons of money for being wrongfully imprisoned for a murder he did not commit. To have him continually trying to solve how this happened to him is the weakest part of the show and may well sink it. Here is what will make it the show it deserves to be: SOLVE THE MYSTERY OF WHO FRAMED CHARLIE, GET RID OF THOSE PEOPLE AND MOVE ON. Charlie, played by always excellent UK actor Damian Lewis, is best when he devotes himself to the present day problems which confront him. This doesn’t mean that Charlie can’t still suffer from his unjustly spent 12 years in prison. He can still do that. He just has to be finished with this massive conspiracy inside the police department which framed him for murder and sent him away. There are plenty of present day aspects which can then be given more attention in the series. Adam Arkin is excellent as his former cellmate Ted Early, who was a top notch white collar criminal. Charlie has taken him into his home and life. Every time Early is onscreen it is magic time. Presently he has fallen in love with Charlie’s father’s fiance. This is the father Charlie wants nothing to do with because he believed Charlie had committed the murder. Again, magic time. Dani Reese (Sara Shahi), as his partner is fine but she was wasted this season being taken away by the people who framed Charlie. Let her resume being his partner and her amusing affair with their chief, Lieutenant Kevin Tidwell (Donal Logue). Then the writers need to wholly concentrate on fresh present day stories for Charlie and his supporting gang of characters.
Rating: 4 / 5
Life: Season Two

gosh i luv thi show so much. this set is great – the only drawback is when it ends u wish it would keep going. lewis is so wondeful, amusing, coy, funn, witty, and clever in this role – i liked this even better than the 1st season.

lots of philosophical and theological nuance leaks in. LA at its best is the back drop. if u are like me an ddont like cop shows, u still will enjoy this.

“All this is flashy rhetoric about loving you.

I never had a selfless thought since I was born.

I am mercenary and self-seeking through and through:

I want God, you, all friends, merely to serve my turn.

Peace, re-assurance, pleasure, are the goals I seek,

I cannot crawl one inch outside my proper skin:

I talk of love –a scholar’s parrot may talk Greek–

But, self-imprisoned, always end where I begin.

Only that now you have taught me (but how late) my lack.

I see the chasm. And everything you are was making

My heart into a bridge by which I might get back

From exile, and grow man. And now the bridge is breaking.

For this I bless you as the ruin falls. The pains

You give me are more precious than all other gains.”

cs lewis
Rating: 5 / 5
Life: Season Two

This is an interesting series in which ties one show to the next, but provides enough background to allow a watcher to enter mid series easily.

Nice show.

Rating: 4 / 5
Life: Season Two