Critic Reviews
| 88 |
USA Today Robert Bianco
The British Mars produced only 16 episodes, and when the last of this season's final eight is over, you will have all the answers you need. What's more, they're satisfying and well worth the relatively short amount of time expended. |
| 80 |
TV Guide Matt Roush
Mars is an entertaining collision of bare-knuckled police-procedural realism and mind-blowing surrealism. |
| 80 |
San Jose Mercury News Charlie McCollum
If anything, season 2--also just eight hours long--is even better as Tyler's world in 1973 becomes even more complicated. |
| 80 |
Los Angeles Times Robert Lloyd
Cop show, fantasy, mystery, comedy, romance, puzzle -- there are a lot of ways to approach "Life on Mars," which begins its second and final season tonight on BBC America, and they all pay off. |
| 80 |
The New York Times Ginia Bellafante
Life on Mars is a smarter, gloomier "Journeyman." |
| 75 |
San Francisco Chronicle Tim Goodman
It's helpful to remember that Life on Mars is less about said realism and more about Sam's twisted journey. Enjoying that retro-cool ride is the essence of the series. |
| 75 |
Entertainment Weekly Gillian Flynn
This isn't much different from Season 1--confusion, frustration, bell-bottoms--but it's still a good, uneasy time. [14 Dec 2007, p.62] |
| 70 |
Chicago Tribune Maureen Ryan
Simm is also compelling (as he was in a couple of standout “Doctor Who” episodes earlier this year), though his performance is sometimes pitched to a level of intensity that the occasionally formulaic storytelling doesn’t quite match. |
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