(Re)View (Pre)Views : America Ruins Great TV Shows

M(R)V is excited to announce its upcoming in-depth review: "Awesome TV Shows". In this review, we will be analyzing the recent and pervasive trend of television programs that are awesome. (SPOILER: In almost all cases, the main character of awesome TV shows is named Jack)


ABOVE: Jack, Jack, and Jack. Sweet.

But we couldn't help ourselves from breaking this actual new story.

One of the awesomest TV shows that you've never seen is called Life on Mars and takes the radical liberty of featuring a main character named "Sam".

Life on Mars is so ridiculously, knock-your-ass out-and-kick-you-in-the-shins-with-lasers- blazing-everywhere-and-a-freakin'-all-consuming-tsunami-of-magical-rain-drops-that-taste- like-happiness AWESOME it's not even funny. Here's a trailer for the show:



And, hey, wanna know something awesome*?!!!!

*by "awesome", i mean "soul-crushingly not awesome"

Have you ever seen that ABC series October Road? If your synapses are still firing and you have yet to gouge our your eyeballs, I'm going to assume you haven't (I will also base this assumption on the show's ratings).

Well, turns out the geniuses behind that show (or, sorry: the geniuses behind that show, Fastlane, and Kangaroo Jack) are going to run the ship on the wholly unnecessary American remake of Life on Mars.

American remakes aren't always bad and non-awesome. Case in point: The Office. The American version of the office, while different, is every bit as awesome as the British series. It's just that most American remakes are non-awesome. A couple of examples would include:

-Cracker

-Coupling

-Men Behaving Badly

-Viva Laughlin! (originally titled Blackpool)

-Queer as Folk

etc.

But Life on Mars is so perfect from beginning to end, we here can't bring ourselves to be exicted about turning the elegant, two-season arc of LoM into the inevitably dragged-out 8 seasons that the American version will run. We don't care that Colm Meaney is playing Gene Hunt, even though nobody else but Colm Meaney could even maybe possibly just barely be right for that role. And we don't care who Jason O'Mara is. All me know is that he's not John Simm and he sure as butterflies ain't Sam Tyler.

If we dare say so, this would be like an American remake of Doctor Who, but without David Tennant, and instead with The Doctor played by Ryan Reynolds. And The Doctor would have a drinking problem. And a failing marriage.

Meanwhile, speaking of David Tennant and awesomeness, we will leave you with this for now:

David Tennant