My rating: 
My Recommendation: A worthwhile watch for SF fans.
IMDB: This Is Not My LifeAlec Ross awakes one morning to find that he doesn't know who or where he is and doesn't recognize his wife or children.
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On Friday night, my wife - knowing that I ike SF and that I wouldn't usually watch TV - mentioned there was a SciFi film on TV called
"This is not my life". I did a query on IMDB on it, and learned that it was in fact a New Zealand-made TV serial. Reviewers gave it an excellent rating, which surprised me as, from experience, NZ TV can usually be pretty mediocre. With a population of only about 4.5M it's probably not surprising.
I checked the TVNZ website to see what episode it was and saw that it seemed to be a rerun and that TVNZ now had a site for watching serials online:
TVNZ OnDemand -
https://www.tvnz.co....ntent/tvnz/ondemand/EDIT 2015-06-21 2207hrs:] also try
TVNZ OnDemand -
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/ondemand.
The service is free to anyone wanting to sign up - though I am not sure whether it will necessarily permit overseas access on the same basis - i.e., overseas viewers may need to access it via VPN.
So, I signed up and decided to tentatively watch episode 1. There were 13 episodes altogether, each about 45mins long - so that would be (13 x 3)/4=9¾hrs approx., all up. I wouldn't want to invest my cognitive surplus in it if it was mediocre. I figured that I could find out if it was any good, by starting at Ep.1, and
if it was, then I could work through successive episodes one-by-one, as time permitted.
So, I started to watch Ep.1 - and I was
hooked.
I ended up staying up all night and watching the lot, totally immersed and wearing my Logitech G930 headset. Very enjoyable.
Summary: Good story which hung together and had a clever and novel theme; good plot with lots of twists and turns (enabled by the theme); good acting; well produced. Not necessarily the best SF TV serial I'd ever seen, but pretty darn good.
