Life on Mars (Season 1)

Life on Mars (2008) is a detective drama laced with science fiction, and you can watch it online on iFILM. New York cop Sam Tyler gets hit by a car in the present day and wakes up in 1973, badge intact, working cases beside colleagues from an era that should be long gone.

Coma? Breakdown? Actual time travel? Sam has no idea either. What he does know is that he has to keep working, now as a senior detective under Gene Hunt, a blunt old-school cop who closes cases with his fists and has zero patience for procedure. Harvey Keitel plays Hunt. Jason O'Mara, Gretchen Mol, and Michael Imperioli round out the squad, surrounded by rotary phones, vinyl records, and a 1970s New York with no digital safety net.

This is the American take on the cult BBC series, made for ABC. One season, and the finale lands a twist that recasts everything before it. The friction between a modern investigator and the brute policing of that decade is what powers the whole thing. Stream Life on Mars (2008) online on iFILM.