Last night was the series finale of Life On Mars, the only TV show I’ve cared about at all since the beginning of Veronica Mars. If you never saw it you were missing out and I suggest you run over to abc.com to catch the past few episodes while they’re still up.
I missed a couple towards the end, with the Chicago trip and all, so I only just watched the episode Coffee Tea Or Annie? It’s amazing. A dead flight attendant that looks just like Annie, the lady-cop played by Gretchen Mol; swingers; fake moustaches; Gina Gershon, campy as ever, and the guy from Perfect Strangers that wasn’t Balki. This may be one of my favorite hours of television ever, right beside the silent Gentlemen episode of Buffy and the cautionary raving episode of Touched By An Angel.
Some screencaps of dreamy Jason O’Mara, with and without fake moustache, after the jump. For those who don’t know, he plays a cop who wakes up one day to find that all of a sudden it’s 1973. I have a ridiculous hosewifey crush on this character (and, actually, on 1973.) The costumes, music, and facial hair are all extraordinary, and Michael Imperioli and Harvey Keitel are excellent at making you care about their drunk, violent, women-hating characters. Gretchen Mol is also fantastic as Annie, the semi-liberated lady-cop. I hope that whoever wrote this show goes on to something else soon.
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