Life (TV series)

Television series
German title	Life
Original title	Life
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Year (s)	2007-2009
length	44 minutes
Episodes	32 in 2 seasons
genre	Crime , drama
idea	Rand Ravich
production	Loucas George , Rafael Álvarez
music	Jason Derlatka , Jon Ehrlich
First broadcast	September 26, 2007 (USA) on NBC
German-language first broadcast	January 12, 2009 on SF two
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Life is an American crime series that was produced from 2007 to 2009. Damian Lewis played the leading role of the Charlie Crew . The pilot episode premiered on NBC in September 2007 . After thirteen ordered episodes, the series received a second season despite not having too high ratings. NBC announced in May 2009 that it would end the series. SF two showed the first season from January 12, 2009. In Germany, VOX began with the first episode on March 11, 2009. The second season was shown on Swiss television from May 22, 2009.

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The series is about Charlie Crews, a policeman who was innocently jailed for twelve years and who receives high compensation and reinstatement after his release. The exact amount cannot be officially stated, but it is said to be US $ 50,000,000. Despite the fortune, he wants to return to the active police service of the Los Angeles Police Department as a detective , which causes astonishment among his companions, colleagues and superiors. He is assisted by Detective Dani Reese. Her job also includes keeping an eye on her partner, as it is feared that he will be back with the police for other interests. As a dry alcoholic and former drug addict, she herself is under surveillance by her superiors.

Crews' wealth is evident in his large house with a pool and his love for fast cars. His house initially remains unequipped, but slowly fills up with furniture over time. Crews now owns a variety of high-quality police-equipped vehicles, including a Bentley Continental GT , a Buick Regal Grand National and a Maserati Quattroporte . These are partly badly affected by various incidents.

As you can see in flashbacks and from his own statements, he was imprisoned from 1994 to 2006 in the maximum security prison at Pelican Bay . As a former cop, Crews also had a particularly difficult time in jail; he was frequently attacked and injured by his fellow prisoners. Since crews were often isolated during this time, sometimes with 23 hours of solitary confinement a day, he drew strength from Zen Buddhism . Only his lawyer had assisted him in the last few years of his imprisonment. Even his wife, colleagues, and friends turned away from him. His only friend is Ted Earley, who has also been incarcerated. Since the crew's release, he has lived with him above the garage and manages his assets.

While Crews and Reese work on their normal cases, Crews also turns to his own case - the murder of his friend and family. He uncovered more and more parts of a growing web of betrayal and intrigue and is on the trail of those who put him in prison for twelve years. He attaches photos and other documents to the walls of a room in his house and draws connections between these elements in order to show the connections between the suspicious people and objects that he has identified.

While Dani Reese went to the FBI for some time, he was assigned Detective Jane Seever as a new partner. This has a clearly structured career planning, the ability to read quickly and a photographic memory .

As the series progresses, it becomes clear what is behind the crew conspiracy. A group of police officers, including Reese's father, embezzled the loot from a bank robbery and was then involved in other illegal activities. Since the leader was certain that he needed a successor, Crews, then still a cadet at the police academy, was selected as the designated successor without his knowledge. His friend Seybolt was supposed to be involved in criminal business in order to put crews under pressure to actually succeed him. But Seybolt was killed in this attempt. In order to avoid suspicion of the group of criminal police officers, they preferred to sacrifice crews and manipulate evidence so that he was convicted.

Another important role is played by Roman Nevikov, who is also after the money from the bank robbery. He got on the trail of the group of police officers and wanted to be the leader's successor himself, but was turned down by them. After Nevikov kidnaps Dani Reese, Crews swaps with her at Nevikov's request. Eventually, Crews kills Nevikov with a blow of the palm.

Documentary element

In places, the series pursues a posed documentary style, in which the characters are repeatedly asked for their opinion on the case by an invisible reporter in front of the camera. This element provides an insight into the connections to crews imprisonment.

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The German synchronization produced the synchronous company Interopa film in Berlin on under the dialogue director of Dietmar miracle after the dialogue book by Martina Marx .

Role name	Actress	Main role (season)	Voice actor
Charlie Crews	Damian Lewis	1-2	Torsten Michaelis
Dani Reese	Sarah Shahi	1-2	Alexandra Wilcke
Robert Stark	Brent Sexton	1-2	Detlef Bierstedt
Ted Earley	Adam Arkin	1-2	Jörg Hengstler
Lt. Karen Davis	Robin refuses	1-2	Martina Treger
Constance Griffiths	Brooke Langton	1	Andrea Aust
Cpt. Kevin Tidwell	Donal Logue	2	Michael Iwannek
Jane Seever	Gabrielle Union	2	Britta Steffenhagen

Guest roles

Role name	Actress	Supporting role (season)	Voice actor
Det. Carl Ames	Roger Aaron Brown	1	Engelbert von Nordhausen
Jennifer Conover	Jennifer Siebel	1-2	Cathlen Gawlich
Olivia A. Canton	Christina Hendricks	1-2	Debora refuses
Jack Reese	Victor Rivers	1-2	Hans-Jürgen Wolf
Roman Nevikov	Garret Dillahunt	1-2	Olaf Reichmann
Rachel Seybolt	Jessy Schram	1-2	Luise Helm
Mickey Rayborn	William Atherton	2	Reinhard Kuhnert
Special Agent Paul Bodner	Shashawnee Hall	1-2	Oliver Stritzel
Special Agent Liz Ray	Chane't Johnson	2
Ann Earley	Amanda Fuller	2	Magdalena Turba
Charlie Crews Sr.	Geoffrey Pierson	2	Ernst Meincke

Episode list

publication

• Season 1 was released in Germany on September 10, 2009 in a 3-DVD set on the Universal Studios label .
• Season 2 Part 1 (11 episodes) was released in Germany in April 2010 in a 3-DVD set on the Universal Studios label.
• Season 2 Part 2 (10 episodes) was released in Germany in May 2010 in a 3-DVD set on the Universal Studios label.
• In October 2011 the complete series was released as a limited edition in a 9-DVD set on Universal Studios.
• An English-speaking Region 2 edition of Season 1 was released on February 2, 2009 in the UK.

Trivia

• Since Charlie Crews never got fresh fruit in prison, he regularly eats several types of fruit in each episode. He even buys an orange plantation in the first season.
• Another hallmark of the series is that Charlie often cannot cope with modern technology; he always has major problems operating cell phones and computers.
• Far Shariat , David Semel and Daniel Sackheim act as executive producers for Universal Media Studios . Daniel Sackheim also directed the pilot film .
• The NBC broadcast the series in HD from format (1080i).
• Damian Lewis' wife, Helen McCrory , starred as Mickey Rayborn's security expert Amanda Puryer in a supporting role in the second season .
• Sarah Clarke (Nina Mayers of " 24 ") plays in episode 7 of the first season ("Wrong Track") . Your role name "Farmer" is an allusion to "Bauer" (Jack Bauer from "24").

Awards

In 2008, Life won the American Film Institute's award for one of the ten best television series of the year.

Web links

• Life in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Official website of NBC
• Episode guide at Serienfans.TV
• Episode guide at CineFacts

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Life. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on August 13, 2012 .