BBC America's ASHES TO ASHES Review
If you don't already know by now, I am a huge fan of British shows, and pretty much every one of them airing on BBC America. And so it will come as no surprise that I loved their latest series, ASHES TO ASHES, which premieres tonight, March 7, at 9pm.
Ashes to Ashes is the sequel to the British Life on Mars, but this time instead of finding ourselves in the 70s with Sam Tyler, we find ourselves in 1981 with Alex Drake, a single mother and psychological profiler living in 2008 - before she finds herself back in 1981.
The good news? Gene Hunt (Philip Glenister) and his sidekicks, Ray Carling (Dean Andrews) and Chris Skelton (Marshall Lancaster), are back, but this time instead of Manchester, London is the center of it all.
Alex Drake is played by Keeley Hawes, whom you might recognize from MI-5 (aka Spooks in Britain). And since [...]
