Ashes to Ashes

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Mary recommended that Kate and I watch Life on Mars and then Ashes to Ashes. These are BBC programs, linked with Life on Mars first and Ashes to Ashes second. All told there are five seasons of 8 programs a season. This is an unusual television experience, a high-minded drama with police procedurals as the episode’s main action driver, but with a long delayed rationale, made clearer only in the final minutes of the very last episode. This is exceptional television and worth following through to the end.

BBC makes a lot of excellent shows, but this is the best of the batch that I’ve seen.

I should add that Kate basically figured out the end. Smart gal.