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DanaC · 04-02-2009, 05:58 AM

I liked Ashes.

Remember, Life on Mars wasn't just a period piece interms of recreating the 70s, it was also a pastiche of a 70s style British TV cops show (ie. The Sweeney)

Ashes to ashes, like Life on Mars does the whole 80s thing...but is also a pastiche of 80s tv cop shows. The scoop tops may not have appeared much in rreal life 80s but they did on tv:P

Instead of the blokey conventions of 70s cop shows, this was the 'Brutish male cop and sexy posh bird cop, pushed together as working partners, with a will they won't they storyline.' I think it does it very well. It is just a different set of tv conventions that they are drawing on.

Incidentally, the scene from Ashes where the male cops stamp her arse with the departmental stamp, was taken from real experiencesd of female police officers in the 80s.

04-02-2009, 05:58 AM	#21
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	I liked Ashes. Remember, Life on Mars wasn't just a period piece interms of recreating the 70s, it was also a pastiche of a 70s style British TV cops show (ie. The Sweeney) Ashes to ashes, like Life on Mars does the whole 80s thing...but is also a pastiche of 80s tv cop shows. The scoop tops may not have appeared much in rreal life 80s but they did on tv:P Instead of the blokey conventions of 70s cop shows, this was the 'Brutish male cop and sexy posh bird cop, pushed together as working partners, with a will they won't they storyline.' I think it does it very well. It is just a different set of tv conventions that they are drawing on. Incidentally, the scene from Ashes where the male cops stamp her arse with the departmental stamp, was taken from real experiencesd of female police officers in the 80s.