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Life: Everything… All The Time

By fred | October 4, 2008

(S02E02) Charlie Crews and Dani Reese were back for the second time already this week, as they will be next week. I’m not really sure it’s a vote of confidence from NBC, all in fairness it probably is quite the opposite in fact, but for now let’s focus on the good part : for the second time this week we got another hour of our beloved Life!

Once again we had an episode filled with many many things. This show has always had at the very least two main side to it, three if also count the essence of it, the portrayal of broken characters getting a second chance at life. The two first are the procedural aspect of the show, the case of the week, and the serialized bit, the ongoing conspiracy against Charlie how he’s tracking everyone down.

And I may be wrong, but I feel things are being handled a bit differently this season so far, like everything is happening all together at once, and we swing back and forth between the two, but while last season had this model too, it would often be limited to the end of the episode for example, or you could see when an episode was getting heavy on the conspiracy stuff.
So far this season I feel things are better handled that way, and of course having much less of those (same) interviews over & over is a very nice thing as well.

After finding Rachel, Charlie is now trying to connect to her, to get her to talk. It obviously won’t be easy, as she is now another one who’s been broken and needs to be given a second chance at life, but for now this hasn’t really found her happy place, she isn’t willing to trust anyone. But it allowed for Charlie to reconnect with his ex-wife in a way he never could so far, despite trying.

Was it seeing Charlie being a good man, was it being back with him, and Rachel, like in the good old days when she and he were a family, or just Charlie good looks, either way she was falling… “Ooh, I remember that…” I’m not sure how after that she could have found the force to listen to her moral brain and walked out on Charlie like that, but seems obvious now that Charlie isn’t going to let her go — now more than ever he knows that what they had didn’t die while he was away.

Jack Reese was back, trying to threaten Ted to betray Charlie. I never really thought he would actually do it, because he knows what Charlie is capable of, and because he owe him about everything he got right now in his life, but I was a bit disappointed we didn’t get the talk when he told Charlie who came to visit. Of course though, that last scene when Charlie – driving his brand new car – pull Jack was pretty fun, and an obvious reference to a scene from the first season (Charlie pulling over his ex-wife husband). Also, good to see Charlie is now getting into modern technology himself.

About this week’s case. Once again the case in itself isn’t that new, rich kids thinking they can have everything all the time, that it all belongs to them, is nothing new. But it doesn’t really matter, because this show isn’t about solving the case, it’s about how Charlie & Dani will solve the case, it’s about them, it’s all about the people.

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Shows: Life