Pilot review: Life

Wow. This one was weird...and kind of catchy. I don't have a clue what any of the characters' names are though. And it said them, frequently, at the bottom of the screen. Actually, except for Adam Arkin, I don't even know the actors names. Hmm.

I liked the fruit thing. And the Zen thing. The lead guy has a lisp that I totally wasn't expecting. He's also a lot weirder, more neurotic, and generally less Zen than I was expecting. Crews. Charlie Crews. That's his name.

Crews' partner, Reese maybe, is interesting. It always seems unusual when they give the really hot woman an unusual vice like drug addiction. I really liked that he instantly liked her and felt protective of her. And the scene with all the cocaine and the shower.

I'm not sure what's supposed to be going on with Charlie and his lawyer. Whether their's was a relationship and is now just a friendship or it's a friendship working up to a relationship. It's hard to tell. She's also much more wrinkly than I would have expected for someone so pretty. She's probably cursing HD these days. Hmm, she was on Melrose Place. Funny, I noticed the wrinkly problem on Laura Leighton two years ago on Eyes. Maybe the Melrose crew did a whole lot of tanning on set. Except for Marcia Cross, who is made of porcelain.

I like the fact that he's investigating a huge conspiracy. It kind of makes me hope, though, that in the end he'll find out he wasn't framed at all and the whole situation is a fluke. Naturally he'll uncover some other huge conspiracy among the LA police force, just nothing to do with him.

In general, I think this one will do somewhat well. It's kind of in the vein of Bones, Numbers, and House. The quirky detective thing. Vincent D'Onofrio's character in Law & Order: CI, just a little lighter and less psychopath. It's also got some beautiful shots of LA.