1. Sherlock and life on mars
This week we watched Sherlock and life on mars as we are studying crime drama.
I liked both of the TV series as they are both interesting and exciting especially Sherlock, Sherlock is a
present day adventures of Sherlock Holmes based on the original books, Sherlock and his companion
John Watson who met when John offered to be Sherlock’s flat mate, they both go around London
and the world to solve crimes that are either brought to them by the police or by people reaching
out to them to be private detectives to help them.
Whereas life on mars in set in 2006 when a police officer is run down by a car, this results to him
being in a coma, in his coma he is sent back to the 1970s where he is roughly treated at first when he
serves on the force and tries to take charge and teach them the modern ways, him and his DI Gene
Hunt solve crime in the 70s as a pair and serve a rough justice.
Both of these crime dramas meet they expectations of a crime drama especially with crime
conventions more so with Sherlock as it has many scenes of him in a lab looking into a microscope or
him and john chasing down a suspect, there are los of things shown such a guns and police cars and
crime scenes and dead bodies which Sherlock then checks out.
But life on mars being set in the 70s there are less modern day police gadgets as there are old police
cars and the fact that there is no interview room or forensics department which is what you would
expect to see in a 70s corrupt police force with police beating each other up and flicking the v’s to
everyone as shown by DI Hunt, and everyone is smoking in life on mars which is what I would expect
from the 70’s.
So both of these crime dramas have a lot of crime conventions and met my expectations on what I
would find in a crime drama.