So, I did some excavation and only found a couple of threads on Life On Mars, the original couple of series, but none on the follow-up three series of Ashes To Ashes - hence this post correcting this frankly shameful omission.
Despite being a UK native and resident, I'd not seen A2A until just recently. Caught a re-transmission of the first series and instantly went out and splurged on the complete boxed set. Finished watching that last night.
Bloody hell - definitely NOT a mistake. It's simply fabulous TV. Okay sure, it's not entirely flawless, but taken as a whole, it's an absolute gem.
I don't know whether you guys on the other side of the pond have any access to this (or Life On Mars, which you really need to watch first), but if you do, I literally cannot commend it to you highly enough.
It's well worth comparing and contrasting the ending of A2A with that of Lost (coincidentally, both finales were screened within a few days of each other back in May 2010) - sorry Lost fans, but the emotional wringer that A2A puts you through and the tight way that the threads are all drawn together and you realise how the clues were mounting up from the get-go... A2A just makes the Lost finale look like a not particularly cohesive and long drawn-out deliberately abstruse intellectualised/spiritualised piece of puff and nonsense.
I'm not going to say more... no spoilers here. But if you can catch Life On Mars and Ashes To Ashes, absolutely do not fail to do so.
(Oh and please don't get mixed up with the abomination that was the US remake... completely different and completely dumbed-down).
