CP3S said:

Turns out I really liked how it ended. All around great show. Can't believe I took such a long break in the middle of the series.

For anyone here who hasn't seen Life on Mars, do yourself a favor and watch it. If you enjoy it, then I'd highly recommend Ashes to Ashes.

I liked the show but I didn't like the ending.

It was the sort of ending a kid would come up with (the test card girl in LOM was a genius ending).

It was too CofE. surely if the there is a purgatory for police it would be less provincial?

It might have worked if once Alex had found the truth about her fellow restless souls she discovered they weren't really all English and from the Eighties but the realm translated them that way because she and Sam came from a UK background of a certain time.

Gene could be all the Gene Hunts in all the international versions of the show and more, The bit with the Railway Arms was a bit crap too.

Up until that point I was gripped all the way.