The hardworking staff has long believed that Charlie Crews – protagonist of NBC’s primetime drama Life that ran from 2007 to 2009 – is one of the great characters ever to hit the small screen.
Played to perfection by Damian Lewis, Crews was a sunshine-loving, fruit-craving (he bought an orange grove with part of his settlement money) Los Angeles detective who served 12 hellish years of a life sentence for three murders he didn’t commit.
(Former partner: “A cop doing time? Please – they broke nearly every bone in his body.”)
When he got out, Crews went back to the LA police force – partly because that’s who he was, mostly because he wanted to find out who had framed him.
As part of the hardworking staff’s Summer of Indolence, we’ve been re-watching the series and after viewing Season 1, we believe even more strongly that Charlie Crews is one for the ages.
Just a taste:
Judge for yourselves here.
We’ll get back to you on Season 2.
