Life (TV series)/YMMV

Television Series

 * Crazy Awesome: Totally Charlie
 * Crowning Music of Awesome: Every. Single. Episode. The editors have managed to make walking through a room be cool.
 * Sadly, some of the music from the broadcast version was replaced for the web and DVD releases.
 * Fetish Fuel: One episode involved a not-KISS cover band. One of the people who applied for the lead singer was a young woman, who was confident and somewhat confrontational. Out of costume, she was a cute, redheaded, slightly neurotic germophobe girl who wrapped everything in plastic. Including her leftover plastic. She also had Nerd Glasses and a habit of wearing boots.
 * Crews himself, when he's sporting his gun and badge.
 * Idiot Plot: From time to time cases will be based on someone acting unusually stupid.
 * In "Black Friday", Charlie Dani and Bobby are examining a crime scene at a mall just before opening. When they realize the security guard is opening the mall on time anyway, all three rush off to prevent the doors from being opened, specifically to prevent the crime scene from being disturbed. Naturally, when they get back, the body is missing.
 * The second episode (with the murdered bride) could easily have ended with the case solved in about 10 minutes - all the witness Tiffy had to do was mention to the 20 or so cops in the room that she saw the murder and she would have been safe.
 * The Scrappy: Rachel Seybolt.
 * Too Good to Last

Manga

 * Adaptation Displacement: The drama is more well-known than the manga, at least in the US.
 * Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped: The manga is in no way subtle about anything, but a lot of the issues it touches are important and do happen.
 * What Do You Mean It's for Kids?: It ran in Bessatsu Friend, a shojo manga magazine aimed at 12-17 year old girls.