Why You Should Watch: Life On Mars
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2019
- One of the greatest TV shows in recent memory, here's why you should check out Life On Mars.
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I just finished watching 'Life On Mars' the other day. No matter how many times I've seen it, it never gets old.
Yes Gene Hunt is forever a Manc, not a southerner!
Yh i remember seeing the trailer for it in 2006 as a kid and the concept intrigued me back then but I did not watch it till last year lol idk why it took me that long. But it is now one of my favourite tv shows of all time.Ashes to Ashes i really like too but not as much as Life on mars if you have not seen Ashes to Ashes I would recommend watching that after Life on Mars
Life on Mars was must see TV for me - and it has not lost its charm with the passing of time. I also really liked Ashes to Ashes, which was brilliant too - never a dull moment on screen.
It's a god awful small affair...
To the girl with the mousy hair
Nivada Stars why
To The Girl With The Mousey Hair
BrokenButton 54 but her mummy is yelling no
Sam Tyler OMG SAM TYLER I THOUGHT YOU WERE IN 1973.
I just finished watching Season 1 of Life on Mars. It's brilliant! I can't believe not a lot of people know about his show outside the UK. I got to know about it from a book about the translation/dubbing of TV and films by an Italian author. He used this show as his case study. I watched the show before I read the rest of the book 😂 It's not very easy to find it here in China. Glad my friends found it for me! I'll start watching Season 2 right away.
Life on Mars is easily one of my favourite TV shows of all time. Ashes to Ashes was good too (though not quite as good as LoM, in my opinion).
Ashley W It took me until series 3 of A2A until I could even tolerate Alex.
Same I never liked Alex and hated chaz in ashes to ashes. Lom was soo good no complaints
Ashes To Ashes was ok but nowhere near as good as Life On Mars
I rewatched Ashes to Ashes during lockdown, and I enjoyed it much more than I did the first time. Both LOM and A2A are much better than a lot of what's on tv nowadays.
Just seen every episode of Life On Mars uk version for the first time and its absolutely amazing.
no joke i think they should continue it with a spinoff in the 90s
or a pre life on mars series set in the late 60s
i think they should do one in 60s i feel 90s is too modern/recent
It’s on it’s way , working title “Lazarus"
@@olliered9924The 70s was just as far away from 2006 as the 90s are now
Hot take: Life on Mars > Ashes to Ashes
I thought most people had this opinion. I guess I was wrong.
Señor Gooba doesn’t seem like it
Royce 5’9 is the goat this is also my opinion
@@senorgooba7360 People really liked Ashes to Ashes. I honestly can't gauge which was more popular since there's not exactly a massive sample size of fans online.
Really loved these 2 series
I've never seen one bit of it and I'm 62 so I guess I'm in for a real treat. Thanks for posting.
Agree with you. Life on Mars is so good on so many levels . I grew up in the 70s...Saw the show when it came out and currently watching it again.
@@davidvasey5065 oh absolutely it is. And to policing of the time too.
Gosh I loved this show and then came Ashes to Ashes and whatever opinion on the comparative quality of the two my Dad was seriously sick at the time. I had the daily drudgery of endless hospital visits and the worry and the stress and every night I would calm myself with a glass of wine and Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes. Happy days during very bad times.
loved this show, and the sequel "Ashes to Ashes"!!
I love this show too although I'll admit I too prefer Ashes to Ashes slightly. It especially holds a special place in my heart for introducing me to my favourite musician David Bowie. Heard Life on Mars and never looked back
same! This show got me into bowie as well :)
I've just found this video, and what a great video it is. I'm a huge fan of Life on Mars it's my favourite BBC drama ever. Really well written and a great story, whenever I hear David Bowie's Life on Mars I always think about the programme lol. I would love to hire the ford Cortina Gene drove in the series which now lives in Lincolnshire. I also dressed up as the legend that is Gene Hunt at a 70s fancy dress party a couple of years ago. 😁👍
It's a brilliant show, superior to the American version. Love John Simms, love the constant confusion.
John Simm*
One of my favourite shows of all time. Everything about it is amazing!
I am in LOVE with this version of 'Life on Mars'. In general, I'm a fan of time travel shows, but when I happened upon it a few years ago on American PBS, I was absolutely captured.
Nice review, and agree with most of your comments, but how can you make a video about Life on Mars without mentioning Annie Cartwright, or Chris and Ray for that matter, or Nelson, or the test-card girl? I finished watching it just two days ago, absolutely loved it, and can't get it out of my head.
Totally agree one of the great tv shows. Superb conclusion that’s actually enhanced by the ending of the sequel show too.
Binged it over a year ago.
One of the best and most underrated shows I’ve ever watched.
It wasn't underrated, it was highly rated.
I love Life On Mars so much! I was about 10 when it came out and I loved it then. I've actually revisited the show recently and fell in love with it twice! And I'm so glad I found this video because most people in New Zealand, where I currently live, have never even heard of the show! So good to know that the fandom is still alive!
I loved it! I was 6 in 1973 and a teenager when Ashes to Ashes was set. I still enjoy The Sweeney, despite having watched every episode several times. Excellently written with a superb cast.
I freaking love shows like Twin Peaks, Life on Mars, Ashes to Ashes, True Detective and Mind Hunter...cheers for this video, not only was it brilliant, it makes me remember the classics 🏆
Oh, and I reminds me of the animation Inside Out. I don't know why, but I feel like Gene Hunt, Annie Cartwright, Ray Carling, and Chris Skelton are those different emotions inside of Sam's head.
Life on Mars and Ashes toAshes are both amazing! I love all the weird surreal parts of both of them, especially test card girl and the clown.
Gene Hunt had really good chemistry with both Sam and Alex too.
I will admit I had a much easier time warming up to Sam “Mars” than Alex in “Ashes”.
I keep debating on whether they should ever bring the characters back in any way🤔
Maybe as a one off Red Nose Day special?
YEAH a modern classic series Wingy
I was shocked when you mentioned Ashes to Ashes as your favourite, because I thought I was the only one! Love Life on Mars though and I also 100% agree that the Peter Davison's Dr Who intro is the fucking best! First saw it when I was five and I was hooked
I recently binged this and Ashes to Ashes again. It was fabulous.
I loved Life On Mars but Ashes to Ashes lost me from the second season on. It's still a good show, but I think maybe it gets too dark. Then there's the ending. Not sure how I feel about it.
Anyway, Life On Mars; great music, clothes, hair, cars, it's great fun, but there's also heaps of drama. It makes me nostalgic for the 70s even though I wasn't born until 1986.
Also, i makes me really want to get hold of a MKIII Cortina.
Na it's still great
I prefer the Quattro tbh
Both series are on britbox, what an absolute joy, binge watched the whole 5 series 😁
John Simms doctor who reference ...
I was talking to someone about Blakes 7 and they told me about Life on Mars. Thanks for reminding me Wingy
I totally agree. My sister found some old DVDs of it for sale (vendor at a car show), knew I liked John Simm and had wanted to watch this series, and bought it for me. Best ending ever (though I needed to use closed captioning to understand the accent sometimes. Okay, most of the time. Doesn't matter, it's a great Tv Show!).
Great job, Wingy! This is an incredible show and well deserving of any/all the praise it gets. It's a shame folks here in the States haven't seen it -- thankfully more people than the shit US version, though. It's tough to get it here. Keep it up. Now, I'm going to go dance to "Jean Genie."
this really is one of my fav tv shows of all time.
I love your videos wingy.
What is your view on Red Dwarf?
They should have made a 3rd season. In fact I would like to see a couple of Life On Mars movies.
My favourite TV show ever. I just love it. I wish they had done a 3rd series.
Both series are brilliant, just took over 2 weeks to watch Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes. Missed them originally due to work, want to re watch due to hints and line ups for final episode. 👍
This is weird, I just started watching this show. I love the music in it.
Harry Hill prevented me from taking this show seriously because I'm always thinking of a giant cooked chicken walking about.
Nice review.
I bought it second hand before having watched it at all with other DVDs. Not sure which one to watch first.
Shall have a look at yer other reviews
I think I’m with you there with slightly preferring Ashes to Ashes. Although they both are fantastic
Ashes To Ashes was nothing like as good
Truly excellent show, will have to watch it again soon!
Apparently, the format was dreamt up by the three main writers on a boys weekend in Blackpool, where they discussed what was their favourite cop show, this emerging as "The Sweeney". Then the idea came of the out of place 21st detective in 1973!
Marvellous series at the height of the mini Sci fi TV boon bought about by the "Doctor Who" revival!
Everything about this series is great & i love gene hunt & some of the lines he has are brillant and annie cartright played by liz white is so damn cute.
Have you seen the Lakes series 1 and 2 with John Simms ?
The ending of the US version was wosrt than the UK, but I like better the American version, it is really good!
It’s coming back!!!
Love the series. Been watching mad dogs which stars Phillip Glennister and John Simm. Great actors.
Life On Mars Is absolutely Fucking-Mint Boys and Germs...
To this day I still think that Sam Tyler was both lying in a hospital bed in 2005 *and* he was somehow actually back in 1973. Remember the nightclub owner who Sam put in prison during 1973 and tried killing him while he was in a coma in 2005 by messing with his drug feed? That is a heavy hint that Sam was actually back in 1973.
"Oooeew... He's got a verruca."
🤣 This whole scene was priceless. Swear someone's wearing armbands 🤣
I honestly think Ashes to Ashes had a better ending than Life On Mars, I was completely blown away 🤯
Probably the reason I first listened to Bowie as a kid, so got to be grateful for that. But yeah Ashes to Ashes is a better show.
The American version got prematurely cancelled so they had to wrap it up like that, from what I remember...
i just finished watching this for the first time last month, never watched it at the time when it was on the box, fantastic show, just started watching ashes to ashes, just as good in my opinion
yh i watched it for first time last year one of my fav shows cant believe I did not watch it much earlier i remember seeing it advertised on tv
I love life on mars just started season 2
Life on Mars is such good show there version all around world like :Usa ,Spain Russia , Czech republic and South Korea . Ashes and ashes were good too I don't why that show didn't get same popularity as life on Mars.
If anything happens to this motor, I’ll come round yer house and stamp on all yer toys.
Couldn’t agree more with everything u have said in this video about this show
I remember when Life on Mars arrived grew in U.S. and though i liked the idea, it just didn't seem to have the chemistry. That was in 2008. Then in 2021, enter subscription to Britbox an I search everything within John Simm and I found this little jewel. OMFG!! I have already binged the entire series twice. All I can say is thank you for making British shows available. I started Ashes to Ashes but got sidetracked by Mad Dogs. And Devil's Mistress. And The Village. Maybe I'll get on it sometime this month. And I agree that LOM could be the best show ever, but in the running with The Mentalist.
You need to finish Ashes To Ashes, series 3 especially is fantastic
@@WingyMedia Well I took your advice and watched Ashes to Ashes and wow! I still don't know what really happened to Sam and for that matter the rest of the team in the final episode. I think that there needs to be a sequel. Have heard John Simm mention it may come back. Fingers crossed.
Great series great characters.
Agree the football episode is brilliant. Also the episode from series 2 with "Dicky Fingers". Also a great supporting cast, Dean Andrews and Marshall Lancaster. I was saw the series "Life on Mars" and "Ashes to Ashes" as one series anyway. Ashes to Ashes was weak in Series One, but Series Three doesn't miss a beat, and the final two episodes are just beyond brilliant and make sense and tie up with "Life on Mars" as well.
Forgot to mention the supporting cast but they're all great! Random story but I actually bumped into Dean Andrews in Manchester on my lunch break a few years ago, very nice guy 😂
During Sam's big speech about hooliganism, John Simm is actually acting to an "X'" on the wall, not to a person. He is amazing!
I wonder if Sam ever looked up about his companions being back to his own time. I would have done so.
I love life on mars and ashes to ashes it's awsome.
wait the sequel is called ashes to ashes? is this actually just one massive bowie reference?
Yes
I heard the other day that onother series of Life on Mars in confirmed🤯😎👍
I think they will call it Lazarus
Just found your channel and it is awesome. Dropped a sub and recommended it to everyone.
Legend 🙌
maybe of interest to you: there is a korean re-make !
John Simm confirmed Life On Mars S3 -Lazarus-is in the works...how cool is that?
REALLY??
@@richhughes7450 there you go....around 3.30 bud ruclips.net/video/YJe7sZLG_rg/видео.html
Wow. Sounds promising. I am a little concerned how this would work as tbe ending in Ashes that explained all was the worst episode of the whole saga and spoilt the superb drama for me. they would have been better off leaving us guessing than that bizarre ending.
@@richhughes7450 I actually quite like the idea of using the pub as a gateway out of Purgatory. I’m sure the writers will come up with something good. Simm, said himself it sounds good ;)
love this show sm
Please do an Ashes To Ashes video please
LOM is one of my all-time favorite shows.
I wonder if I would have liked the American version, if I hadn’t seen the original first...
One of the bigger problems in adapting to US, is that 60/40 minutes of content needs to be crammed into 42/23.
The characters end up talking and moving too quickly because of commercials.
Have you seen Luther ?
Please do why you should watch Hustle
Camberwick Green that is all
What are your thoughts on ashes to ashes?
It's amazing because the show goes into more detail about Ray, Chris and gene's personal lives as well as their lives at work. It's also really funny and very dark towards the end and you should watch it!!!
@@lucywarner2319 I was asking Alex, not you!
@@charliewarner787 no need for that bro, no need. Watch ashes to ashes!
In answer to the confusion over where to watch this, people in the UK and/or with a VPN can stream all of Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes on BBC iPlayer for free.
Yes, it's also on Netflix UK
What do you think about this new series of life on Mars/ashes to ashes that they’ve announced they’re making.
Curious to see how it ends up
Wingy Media me too especially after some of the quotes and hints Matthew graham has dropped
After watching life on mars ive got the perfect idea. Philip Glenister playing Neil Warnock in a biopic...
great show. I liked Ashes to Ashes too, but its nowhere near as good. Still thats pure opinion. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Lucky they did it in the 70s while they still could. It would be waaay to expensive to do now.
Best show ever
Agree great series...The Sweeny meets Blakes 7.
Still waiting for that ashes to ashes vid 😬
I just finsihed watching "Svět pod hlavou" a Czech series inspired by "Life on Mars", where the main character ends up in a communist totalitarian Czechoslovakia, where what the party needs is more important than truth, I do recommend it for anyone reading, but I'm not sure if it's in English. 🤷 I'll have to check out "Life on Mars", then.
Wholesome
Can you do Ashes to Ashes
ruclips.net/video/SMS2ssVpkA0/видео.html
People saying it's a shame about that s ending cause the rest was good apprently
Wingy, will you vlog comic con?
More than likely!
Oh cool! You’re great at reviews wingy! I look up to you! (I write reviews but don’t post them) :)
@@sazmarie1281 You should post them! Be confident in yourself
Thanks mate!
What do you think of the Chris Chibnall episode?
Pretty good actually, wouldn't say there was a bad episode of Life On Mars.
@@WingyMedia apart from the trademark race against the clock that he used for 42 and Dinosaur's on a Spaceship, though with LoM at least it was the 1st time used
I loved both L. O. M and Ashes but that ending that explained all was a real let down. They would have been better off not explaining it and keeping us guessing.
Love. It. Watch. It. Again. The. Other. Day. Gene. Hunt. Is. So. Funny. Love. His. Comments. So. Rude.
Love ashes to ashes & life on Mars UK Brit box
If you look past the ridiculous ending the American remake of life on mars is actually quite good
I still don't completely understand the Life On Mars story
I have the box sets! Love it!!
Happy days back then, the only snowflakes fell in winter, no one knew what woke culture was and the music was great and I knew it!.
Would love to see the Gene Geanie remove the oil protesters out off the road.. probably take all of a minute before going to the pub!
Memorable lines -
Uuuuuurrrrggh!! GET OFF HIM!!!
HE'S GOTTA VERUCA!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Give up! You're surrounded by armed bastard's!!🤣
Anything 'appens to this motor, I'll come round your house & stamp on all yer toys, GOT IT!!
GOOD KIDS!!🤣🤣
One thing to say: trust the Gene Genie!