New NBC TV Show: 'Life' 'Our Take' - A Review of the Pilot Episode! This is a 'repost' for tonite's season premiere episode as I see that several blog readers are looking at our prior post! We previewed the NBC TV Show Pilot Episode of this new Fall series. Here is 'Our Take', plus notes on this first of an ongoing series for this show. One Paragraph Snyposis: 'Life' is a new 'cop show with a twist. The main character is a re-instated detective back on the police force AFTER serving twelve years in a federal maximum security for a crime he didn't commit. The why is shown at the end of the pilot, as the very large cash settlement he received for falsely being imprisoned has set him up for a much different 'life' style than the prison he had been serving time in! (SPOILER WARNING: Don't read the below IF you don't want to know what happened!) The show starts with the main character 'Charlies Crews' (played by Damian Lewis) being released from Pelican Bay Penitiary... a Federal Maximum Security Prison. We see by the people being interviewed on camera that he has an ex-partner on the police force, an ex-wife, a business manager for all the money he recently received, a woman lawyer, etc. etc... Less than ten minutes into the show, Tina says 'this is stupid'... Twelve minutes into the show, Tina says 'this is really stupid'... Charlie is driving a very fast new luxury car... we see him stop his ex-wife's new husband for a traffic violation... this doesn't endear him to either Tina or me, not very smart... Since Charlie has been behind bars for twelve years, he doesn't know what an 'IM' is so he asks his new detective partner (Sarah Shahi) what that is. He asks other questions as the show goes on, he hadn't known about 'camera phones' etc... so much technology has come in since he was incarcerated. Lt. Davis, the department supervisor is trying to get Crews' new partner to talk about Crews' activities, she is trying to get Crews removed from duty. Another 'this is dumb; comment from Tina... but I keep the DVD Preview Disk playing... Cut to Crews' new mansion bought with part of the settlement money... his business manager 'Googles' himself, and then Crews wants himself 'Googled'. He sees multiple entries on himself, with the big one being 'Got Framed? 12 Years For A Crime He Did Not Commit'. Quotes more Zen philosphy... etc... At this point Tina argues that anyone that spends that amount of time in prison would not come out being such a 'goofball', reading Zen or not! It appears that his new partner is 'on the program', probably drugs as the 'coke' in the next arrest gets all over her, and she has to immediately take a shower at the suspect's apartment as it affects her immediately! (...Continued top of next column!) | We next see more quotes from Zen... and I also am tiring of this show, but sticking it out... At the very end we see why he apparently rejoined the police force, his new mansion has a room with a wall covered in photos of all the persons he is figuring out had something to do with his wrongly being convicted.... he is trying to figure out why and who did this to him! At last something promising for this new series.... but it is too late for us, Tina says in finality for her, that she doesn't understand why the producers would have such a stupid premise. The main character is a happy go lucky guy, loving life, even tho he lost his life for 12 years, lost his wife, c'mon she says this is so stupid!! Well, it's Thumbs Down for her on this new show For me it's not worth staying up for at 10-11pm Wednesday nights, nor worth taping... it took too long to show any possiblity of getting interested in this show beyond the pilot... One note though, I had not noticed Sarah Shahi before, so I 'googled' her in the 'images' link. She is really good looking, but this episode didn't bring that aspect out in her, nor any endearing acting ability that would bring me back for more. Thanks for viewing this pop culture / comic book blog post.... and feel free to post your comment below! This blog post is written for the 'mainstream' blog post reader as well as the pop culture collector! Michael (and Tina) 
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