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Air Date: Friday, October 3, 2008
Time Slot: 10:00 PM-11:00 PM EST on NBC
Episode Title: (#202) “EVERYTHING ALL THE TIME”

10/03/2008 (10:00PM - 10:59PM) (Friday) : UNDERGROUND PARTY CIRCUIT CLAIMS LIFE OF FAMILY MAN - Charlie Crews (Damian Lewis) and Dani Reese (Sarah Shahi) investigate the death of a family man who is found beaten and bound to a chair at the bottom of an empty pool. Captain Tidwell (Donal Logue) is convinced the murder was an act of gang violence and sends the detectives on assignment. After interviewing the victim’s daughters and two gang members, Crews and Reese’s only clues are an underground party circuit, a bottle of steroids, and a myth about a man only known as Monster. Meanwhile, Ted (Adam Arkin) gets an unexpected visit from Dani’s father who is determined to find out what information Crews has on him and consequently has a request of Ted. Crews also enlists the help of his ex-wife Jennifer (Jennifer Siebel) to reach out to Rachel (Jessy Schram), the lone survivor of the murdered 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 Everything… All The Time :

- At 1:00, Opening scene: Finding Max’s dead body, arresting gang members… : Ghosts, by Ladytron. Can be found on Velocifero (Buy the MP3).

- At 6:39, Charlie & Dani are arriving at the Flext gym : Count Five Or Six, by Cornelius. Can be found on Fantasma (Buy the MP3).

- At 19:56, Jennifer trying to talk to Rachel, then making out with Charlie in the car… : Cue The Strings, by Low. Can be found on The Great Destroyer (Buy the MP3).

- At 40:21, End of episode: Charlie driving his new Maserati, pulling Jack over : Emergency 911, by Sloane. Can be found on Parallel Play (Buy the MP3).

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Everything… All The Time was written by Rand Ravich and directed by David Straiton.

The episode first aired on October 3, 2008 and was watched by 5.44 million viewers, with a 1.7/rating, 5/share amongst adults 18-49. This is obviously really not good, as it is much less than it did on Monday (6.92 million viewers, 2.8/7) and also a series-low. This was also the first time ever LIFE did not get at least a 2.0/rating on the demo, but then again, Fridays night are not called death slots for nothing. Sadly, with not even 6 million viewers or 2 on the demo, this doesn’t look good for the future of the show, starting with a full season pick up…

LIFE also fell from last season former occupant LAS VEGAS which, on October 5, had 7.48 million viewers (2.2/ration, 7/share on the demo), over 2 million more viewers. It should however be noted that lead-in DEAL OR NO DEAL only had 6.26 million viewers, with a 1.5/rating, 5/share amongst adults 18-49. So with 87 percent LIFE actually had a pretty good retention out of the game show, and even better improve on the demo. In other words, it’s not the show, it’s the slot!

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

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

(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.

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