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Brilliant

posted 10 years ago by ianpwilliams
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I've just finished watching the box set of this absolutely brilliant show. The last episode was tough to watch though, knowing it was going to end.

I've now bought the Ashes box set so that's up next. I've already lowered my expectations because following Sam and Annie has to be impossible. But hopefully it'll still be good in its own right.

[–] Walleyrange 10 years ago

You're approaching it right. There's plenty to enjoy about Ashes to Ashes but without John Simm it never quite reached the heights of LOM.

[–] ianpwilliams 10 years ago

Yeah my dad didn't rate it, but it gets so many great reviews on here that it has to have something going for it.

[–] Sleepin_Dragon 10 years ago

Life on Mars will always be the best, but Ashes has some brilliance too, stick with it as the first few are a little ropey, but it gets going, some great, and not so great episodes in each series.

When he said Mr Leeman was dead i thought he said he's still in bed

[–] Dan_Garten 9 years ago

Cool.

[–] Hammerfanatic46 9 years ago

For me, while Ashes to Ashes didn't quite reach the hights of Life on Mars, it was still great by the standards of normal TV drama. Gene and Alex had a wonderful chemistry and there were some marvellous supporting actors.

While there was more overt comedy in A2A, it managed, at the same time to be somewhat darker in tone . The final episode is breathtking and incredibly poignant.

[–] Sunflower1970 9 years ago

I loved LoM very much, but I think I prefer A2A just a tad more. Mainly because that's the era I was a pre-teen/teen in, so the fashions & music (and of course Charles & Di getting married) had more of an impact on me, so watching them re-create it in a hyper-real way has been fun to wathc.

[–] theemaster 9 years ago

I only really liked season 1.. I'm kinda iffy about season 2 LOM 👅