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(S02E03) For the last time there was a new episode of Life on a Monday night. From now on an starting this very Friday, the show settles down on its regular slot, Fridays at 10.00 meaning that, yes, once again we'll get a double-dose of Life this week as Charlie & Dani are coming back in just a few days. But before that, they were just here last night, and there's a lot to talk about, obviously.

I have said before that, to me, Life isn't a cop show. Or, more exactly, it only has the appearance of one, but that's not what it's about. And I'm not talking about the whole conspiracy behind Charlie's 12 years in prison either, I mean the show is all about people, not about a murder, solving a crime or even finding out who framed Charlie. All of that are just excuses, excuses to spend time with those often broken characters, and see them have a second change at life.

About this episode, I liked it. I really did, but at the same time I didn't. It's not quite a mix of love and hate mixed together, I am far from hating the show, but at the same time and as much as I love it, and enjoyed it because it was Life, and Charlie and Dani, at the same time it wasn't really them. I feel that the show isn't as good as it used to be last season, or this episode wasn't like what we were used to.

The previous episode(s) I was rather fine with, but here I couldn't help but feel something was different. It was both in this episode specifically, and in the whole show ever since it came back. First, let's talk in general. In general, ever since the show came back for its season season, something has been different. It's because a lot happened since last season finale, but we don't know what.

The Lieutenant is gone, but we have no idea what happened there, Dani decided to wear sexier clothes and let her hair down, we don't know why either. It's all part of changes that took place, and are supposed to be accepted from now on, but we can't accept them because we don't know the reasons. We don't know why Dani changed her style and apparently isn't going in bars anymore to have sex with lucky men whose name she doesn't even care about, there has to be a reason, and we need to know what happened, because from where we're standing, those are just changes.

Not evolutions, but changes. We didn't see the show or the characters evolve into something else, we didn't see them transforming into anything, we just found them back, only they weren't the same. And it goes further than that, because to stay on Dani : her sexual behavior was a part of who she was, just like her dressing code was, or are her frequent visits to the gym. Despite what it may look like in promos, she is as important to the show as Charlie, the show isn't about Charlie, it's about him and Dani.

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