The greatest movie ever made..!

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Quirky & nuanced with a unique take on the cop partner genre. Was part of the initial group of "golden age of tv" era. Series allowed to run its natural course culminating in one of the most raw & powerful climax to occur on a major network.

I just finished binge watching on Netflix. How is it that I've never heard of this TV series?? The show is/was wonderful! I would gladly watch another 12 seasons! Please note, the following possibly contains spoilers!! The show is about an easy going police homicide detective that is great at what he does. No fear, doesn't take crap off anyone, yet is calm and respectful of others! The detective has been wrongfully accused of killing a family. In addition to being a police detective, he owns a bar with a partner. This partner is the family that he is accused of killing. The first season is devoted to clearing his name and finding the real killer. Very sad the police did not investigate and chose to believe that he did it! The second season is largely devoted to figuring out why they did it!

I found this series while in college for my BA and it quickly became a favorite. Charlie Crews is a homicide detective who was exonerated after spending 12 years in prison. Partnered with a recovering addict, Dani Reese (Sarah Shahi), Charlie has grasped a Zen philosophy and stress- free approach to police work. His seeming casual attitude to his job causes people to underestimate his abilities. Charlies remains observant, detail-oriented and unorthodox in a clever way. He lives with his financial adviser Ted Earley (Adam Arkin), an ex-CEO convicted of a white collar crime whom Charlie saved in prison, in a large mansion with no furniture benefiting from the large cash settlement he won after regaining his freedom and badge. His interactions with Reese are pretty funny and Ted is a decent comedic sidekick. What made this show stand out was the acting of Damian Lewis, he portrayed a confident professional who inwardly struggled with the traumatizing experience of his prison stint. The only times he approaches anger are when getting leads during his independent investigation of the murder he was imprisoned for, the murder of his friend/business partner and the man's wife and son. It was an awesome show and canceled way too soon.

This is one of those shows you watch and have to ask: "Why was this thing canceled?" Great writing, directing, acting and casting. It was a pretty flawless show. Even the secondary characters, like Crews' old partner "Stark", are well rounded and interesting, Everyone has a back-story, and the bad guys are seriously bad.The weekly crimes were well done. Not quite up to "Columbo" standards, but interesting enough to carry. The ongoing conspiracy investigation of who set Crews up threads its way into the show - sometimes just a few minutes, sometimes a third of the episode. An ongoing theme is that "everything is connected" - and this shows up in the conspiracy. People aren't always what they appear and sometimes people run into during the investigation of the weekly crime turn out to be factors in the bigger story.My hunch is that this show was canceled because it was too smart for it's own good. Or maybe not violent enough. There is violence, but it's not the focus of the scripts. When it ended the conspiracy was only half solved. It could have easily gone on for another couple seasons."Life" is on Netflix now and it's worth spending a weekend watching it as a marathon.