Life On Mars Review

When PC Tyler's girlfriend Maya goes missing, he goes looking for her but gets hit by a car and waking up in the 1970's where he uncovers the same killer who took Maya 30 years later.
Confused, he's looking for a way out of this "imaginary" word, supposing he's in a deep dream while in a coma. Thoughout the episodes he sometimes hears hospital machines and people talking.

Life on Mars is a crime drama set in the past. Most of the conventions are old and old fashioned. As it's set in the 1970's the evidence isn't great and there's even food being dropped on "so called" evidence which is suppose to identify the killer. Also there is not many scenes where there's the examination of a body or the forensik side. It's simply trying to find who the killer is by eye witnesses and experiencing them for themselves. Without the technology today to identify the killers fingerprints and scientific studies, PC Tyler has to try to find the killers though pure evidence. The crime drama also doesn't follow Tovoro's theory of equilibrium/disequilibrium/equilibrium. Each episode also uses Barthes theory of the enigma, the action, the semic, the the symbolic and the cultural.

Conventions:
 - Old fashioned Telephone
 - Old technology
 - Old clothes, cop cars, police uniforms