sentences:  As of August 2008, "Life" has a 64% favorable rating for season 1 and a 72% rating for season 2 on Metacritic.Ken Tucker of "Entertainment Weekly" dubs the series "a very good new show that needs a more vivid title and more of NBC's promotional oomph" and praising the portrayal of Charlie Crews by the "beloved" Damian Lewis.In contrast, Gina Bellafante of "The New York Times" noted that the character of Detective Crews (and contemporary Adrian Monk of the series "Monk") did not portray "law enforcers as believable soldiers of the working class", which she considered a negative.