Life Review

This guy's main adorable quirk is that he really likes fruit. How adorable and quirky is that?

Life is a show about a police officer who’s wrongly imprisoned for 12 years, exonerated, and returns to the force as a detective. Ever since House became a huge hit and Hugh Laurie won every award known to man we’ve had a steady stream of quirky anti-heroes invade our television sets. This guy is not so much quirky as he is just annoying as fuck. Phallic had to keep reminding me that he was “Zen,” not just raised by wolves. Maybe I’m not familiar with that school of thought, as I couldn’t pick out a single Zen quality about him. This show was annoying, depressing, and sometimes confusing. The only scene I enjoyed was when they raid a drug den. The main character’s partner, a recovering drug addict, shoots a bag of coke. It blows up in her face and she’s just covered in the stuff. She immediately- and melodramatically- runs to the crack house’s shower and washes the coke off as she freaks out. It was HI-larious, as Phallic would say. Adam Arkin plays the cop’s only friend and he’s also the only thing this show has going for it.

Verdict: I give it a couple of weeks. It will be one of the first casualties of the TV season.

Would I Watch It? No.