Life on Mars
The text is a hybrid genre, Crime and Sci-fi. It follows the key conventions of both a modern day crime drama and a 1970 crime drama. With the modern day it shows typical conventions such as large offices with computers all over the place, a main detective who is our main character, also within the present day our damsel in distress is revealed to be his girlfriend and partner. Moving on to the 1970 era we have dark rooms with paperwork all over the place and only men within the detective section, most are smoking and in a scene the head detective hits our main character. Also within the 1970 section it establishes a buddy partner narrative which is a key convention of crime cop dramas and even films. All of this shows how different detective work is from the 1970 to modern day like women and overall rules and corruption within the stations. This episode is a restricted narrative because we as the audience know just as much as the main character does and while he tries to figure thing