Trivia / For Life

• Fake American: Both Nicholas Pinnock (Aaron) and Indira Varma (Safiya) are English.
• Fake Nationality: The character of Safiya Masry is of Egyptian descent, while her actress Indira Varma is Indian and Swiss-Italian.
• Produced by Cast Member: The series is produced by 50 Cent, who also plays inmate Cassius Dawkins.
• Screwed by the Network: The show never had much confidence by ABC to begin with; they slotted it in a time slot filled with rival dramas that ate into For Life's target audience, resulting in ratings going from solid to avalanche pretty quickly. ABC was planning to cancel it after its sole season, but the murder of George Floyd and a summer defined by social unrest in response led to ABC renewing it out of respect. By next season, ABC thought the show would make for great counter-programming against Chicago P.D. and SWAT. Not only were they proven dead wrong about that, but the events of the prior year had faded from the public consciousness just enough that ABC had no reason to go beyond season two.