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Air Date: Monday, September 29, 2008
Time Slot: 10:00 PM-11:00 PM EST on NBC
Episode Title: (#201) “FIND YOUR HAPPY PLACE”

09/29/2008 (10:00PM - 10:59PM) (Monday) : ANOTHER TRUNK ANOTHER BODY - In the season two premiere, detectives Charlie Crews (Damian Lewis) and Dani Reese (Sarah Shahi) are on the hunt for a serial killer when three numbered trunks containing suffocated bodies are found scattered across Los Angeles. With their new boss New York transfer Captain Kevin Tidwell (Donal Logue) pressuring them to get answers, Crews and Reese race to find a connection between the murders before the killer strikes again. Meanwhile, Ted (Adam Arkin) and Crews attempt to track down the daughter, the lone survivor, of the family Crews was wrongly convicted of killing. Brent Sexton also stars.

Show Cast: Damian Lewis, Sarah Shahi, Adam Arkin, Donal Logue, Brent Sexton

[ Source: NBC ]

Music info for Find Your Happy Place - if there’s any mistake/misses please let us know :

- At 1:13, Opening scene: Finding the numbered trunks… : Devil’s Playground, by Gram Rabbit. Can be found on Music To Start A Cult.

- At 9:04, Crews and Reese arriving at the club with the dancer in the box : Thundercats, by Shivaree. Can be found on Rough Dreams.

- At 26:12 + 28:51, Song John is listening to before being questioned; Charlie & Dani checking the invitations : Colleen, by Heavy. Can be found on Great Vengeance And Furious Fire (Buy the MP3).

- At 40:23, End of episode: Finding Rachel… : Dream, by Priscilla Ahn. Can be found on A Good Day (Buy the MP3).

Find Your Happy Place was written by Rand Ravich and directed by Daniel Sackheim.

The episode first aired on September 29, 2008 and was watched by 6.92 million viewers, with a 2.8/rating, 7/share amongst adults 18-49. The show came last on its slot and was down from last season’s finale in viewers (7.64 million viewers), but up on the demo (2.8 vs 2.5)

After a series premiere performing quite well and boosted by a then ratings-hit BIONIC WOMAN, for a good second half of its first season LIFE (outgrew its lead-in and) averaged 6.6 million viewers and 2.4 on the demo. Compared to those numbers, the show was up. Unfortunately, the show lost viewers with a weaker second half-hour — Here’s the half-hour breakdown :
Viewers: 7.40 million (#3), A18-49: 3.0/ 7 (#2)
Viewers: 6.43 million (#3), A18-49: 2.5/ 7 (#2)

Retention out of the last half-hour of HEROES (9.43 M, 4.5/11 at 9:30 p.m.) was somewhat good though low on the demo, with 78 percent in viewers and 67 percent among adults 18-49.

[ Source: Nielsen Media Research data, from Marc Berman ]

Here’s a review of the episode from our friends at TVoholic.com :

(S02E01) Do you remember that day, last year, in December ? it was a Wednesday I think, December 5th, 2007 ? Yeah I know, it’s been like 10 month, of course you don’t really remember what happened that day, so I’ll give it to you : it was the last time a new episode of one of the greatest series to ever grace our screen was on the air. Oh yeah, it’s been ten freaking long months until we saw a new episode of Life !!

Needless to say, I was incredibly happy to have it back. Also, if you didn’t remember everything, that’s because NBC didn’t think things like reruns would be helpful. But let’s not talk about that, let’s focus on the episode. This awesome episode. I’ll tell you, I was worried. When I started watching this episode, I was very excited, and also worried.

Now I’m just excited, and happy. I think this is where I smile, my happy place : in front of an episode of Life.

I was worried because of Dani’s new look, which I’m sure you’ll have noticed too. It’s not that I don’t like it, it’s a good look and I don’t need that to see how hot Sarah Shahi is, but here’s the thing. That look, that may be Shahi, but that’s not Reese. Not that she was ever defined by her looks, certainly not, but it was an important part of who she was and how she defined herself : a strong cop, a good cop, that shouldn’t be judged by her look.

That’s why she didn’t wear anything too sexy or revealing, why she had her hair up and the leather jacket. It was Dani, and that’s who we got to know her during 11 episodes. Now to have her all of a sudden in a brand new look, it’s almost like Charlie had lost the sunglasses or the fruits, something would be wrong. We didn’t even get any explanation as to where this comes from, but then we also didn’t get anything about how and why Lieutenant Davis got demoted, it’s been months and we missed a lot, so maybe it’ll come later. I sure hope so.

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