TV Show "Awake"

[ky54]

Mid-season replacements don't have quite the same stigma as they used to now that new shows launch just about all the time. This show has a pretty nice little angle which I'll try to describe without giving away any of the plot - a police detective has a bad car accident with his wife and son in the car. His wife dies but when he goes to sleep he's in a alternate world where his son has died and his wife is alive. He switches back and forth with no real discernible pattern but what ties it altogether is there are crimes being committed in both worlds he has to solve concurrently. Confused? It's not as bad as I wrote it and it is something different than the already beaten to death cop stuff. Something to watch while I impatiently wait for Breaking Bad to start again.

Anyone watching this show?

 

[zokudu]

How do you know the wife died and not the son? There has been no indication yet as to which is the real world.

 

[SKORPI0]

Spoiler

After the crash Britten discovers that every time he goes to sleep he switches between two realities, one in which his wife died in the crash and one in which his son died.
To differentiate between the two realities, Britten wears different colored rubber bands in each reality: red, for the one in which his wife is alive, and green, for the one in which his son is alive. Scenes in the "red" reality use warm tones, while scenes in the "green" reality use cool ones.

So when he is "awake" does that mean wife and son are both alive?

 

[Perknose]

So when he is "awake" does that mean wife and son are both alive?

No, because he thinks he's awake in both states, one of which has to be a dream . . . I guess. :hmm:

I'm LOVING the premise of this show, which is also otherwise decently well done. The two states run alternately/concurrently, and he gets clues from the one "state" to solve crimes in the other "state."

Quite cool and fresh. I like my "weird unreality" like this, neat and explainable.

I contrast this show with then The River, which is a sloppy, frenetic, barely believable "Lost" wannabe. At the outset, they find an abandoned ship that's been sitting derelict in the steaming Amazon for six months, with it's superstructure visibly rusted through, and before nightfall get it's engines running with a couple of wrenches AND ALL THE DELICATE ELECTRONICS ON BOARD completely up and running flawlessly.

Yeah, right.

 

[Lifted]

I haven't watched it yet, but I did read that it's starts getting strange when things happening in one reality 'leak' into the other reality. No idea how far that goes, perhaps it's just references characters make to events which happened in the other reality, which I'm guessing they shouldn't be able to do.

I'm sure I'll give it a watch at some point, though it's difficult these days with no TV.

I contrast this show with then The River, which is a sloppy, frenetic, barely believable "Lost" wannabe. At the outset, they find an abandoned ship that's been sitting derelict in the steaming Amazon for six months, with it's superstructure visibly rusted through, and before nightfall get it's engines running with a couple of wrenches AND ALL THE DELICATE ELECTRONICS ON BOARD completely up and running flawlessly.

Yeah, right.

Agreed. That show was terrible. I couldn't even finish the entire second half of the premiere.

 

[zokudu]

I haven't watched it yet, but I did read that it's starts getting strange when things happening in one reality 'leak' into the other reality. No idea how far that goes, perhaps it's just references characters make to events which happened in the other reality, which I'm guessing they shouldn't be able to do.

I'm sure I'll give it a watch at some point, though it's difficult these days with no TV.



Agreed. That show was terrible. I couldn't even finish the entire second half of the premiere.

From the few shows I've watched its a similar name kind of thing. Like oh this victims name is the same as another victim in the other reality I should check out that second crime.

 

[ky54]

I haven't watched it yet, but I did read that it's starts getting strange when things happening in one reality 'leak' into the other reality. No idea how far that goes, perhaps it's just references characters make to events which happened in the other reality, which I'm guessing they shouldn't be able to do.

The two realities do leak into the other. How it is done is the cool part of the show and it's impossible to reveal how it's done without revealing major plot lines. One of the plot lines that is pretty cool that is discussable is in each reality he has been forced by the police department to visit a grief councilor. Each of them insist the other is a fake and gives psychological reasons (grief, etc) why the other is just a dream. Good stuff.

 

[sixone]

I've had a crush on Jason Isaacs for years. They gave him a great story.

I've given up "The Mentalist" to watch "Awake".

 

[Gunslinger08]

I started watching this with my wife and we both like it. I'll keep it on the DVR schedule.

I just deleted The Firm, The River, and Alcatraz. I watch too much TV - time to cut stuff out.

 

[American Gunner]

I'm really enjoying this show. It's one of the very few shows I actually watch.