Life came to an end last night. Thankfully there wasn't an extinction-level event, just the finale of ITV3's Life. Still, it was sad in its own way.
I like Damian Lewis as an actor (Great in Band of Brothers). I also think that the show was quirky enough to be a bit different and had a good ensemble cast: Adam Arkin as sidekick Ted was in his best role since he was President Bartlett's therapist; Donal Logue's Capt Tidwell could've been a really interesting character; and I know a lot of people who found Sarah Shahi, how shall we say, pleasant to watch.
But Life's ratings for its first series weren't that special. It got a second season mainly because of the writers' strike and when it failed to grow it was canned by NBC. It can't have helped that Shahi got pregnant and had to be filmed at strange angles throughout the second series (mostly on the phone at a desk in a surreal FBI office).
The producers must have known that the writing was on the wall because the second half of the second series featured little character development and a mad rush towards a strange conclusion. We did at least get closure of sorts. But were you satisfied? Did you care?
