I love that. Hated it before, love it now!
A few months ago I read this script. I knew it was a foreign (British?) show and after I read the script I spit on it, lit it on fire and took some of that twilight drug to make me forget the last hour. Seriously, it was so bad. I didn't know how anyone could make such doodie.
Now, more then a month into its season, this show is AMAZING. Like I think it's my fave show. At least close to the top. I don't even know why I watched that first show since I hated the script so much but I'm so glad I did.
Seriously! Golden!
Really, you'd be thinking the same thing, or maybe you did. A show about a guy who gets hit by a car and ends up in the 70s. Huh? That sounded dumb just writing it. The biggest question I had was "how did he get there?". At first that question was said with an eye roll and a head shake. Now I ask the question like I ask a question about Lost, "where did the island go". My sarcasm is completely gone. I am ALL FRAKKIN' IN.
Sam's mentor who in the 70s is an up and coming detective. Really, genius.
Sam Tyler is a cop who gets hit by a car in present day NY and wakes up in the 70s where he's a new transfer to his old police precinct. In this new/old precinct things are done truly old school, no Miranda rights, no women doing detective work, and lots and lots of witness ass kicking.
Come on! I giggle when I see this.
The cast is beyond stellar. Jason O'Mara plays Sam. He is all kinds of adorable. I saw him at a party a few months back and he's completely normal sized. Not tiny and not huge. Lisa Bonet plays his love in present day. Harvey Keitel and Michael Imperiolli (from the Sopranos) play his lieutenant and fellow detective, respectively. Havery Keitel as a hard nosed detective. Not exactly out of the box casting, but perfect nonetheless. Gretchen Mol, yes, ex-model Gretchen Mol plays a lady police who helps women and children but who should be a detective herself, but they don't promote dames! Hahhah.
Not only is Sam trying to figure out where/when the hell he is, he's also working cases as a detective. He figures if he solves something there it'll send him back to the his present to be with the woman he loves. This sounds like Quantum Leap and I LOOOOVVEE Quantum Leap. Usually if a show really excels in one respect it loses focus in another. This show's meat and potatoes is the cases Sam investigates with sprinkles throughout of his old life that he comes across randomly, making him wonder what is reality and what is a dream. For instance, he wakes up in the middle of the night and is watching a professor give a lecture on TV but it suddenly turns into a doctor talking about how he (Sam) is in a coma, like he's explaining it to family members. At some point Sam's heart even sounds like it stops beating. People appear and disappear. I love this show!
There are so many things right about this picture.
Can you tell I love this show. Watch the first two episodes. If you aren't in love with this show then your heart is dead. No, if you don't like this show after 2 episodes fine, but if you like any of these shows: Law and Order, Lost, Quantum Leap, NYPD Blue, Kojak, any good show ever!, you're going to love this.
I love that. Hated it before, love it now!