Awake

2012

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7.9| 0h30m| TV-14| en| More Info
Released: 01 March 2012 Canceled
Producted By: NBC Studios
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: http://www.nbc.com/awake
Synopsis

Michael lives in two separate realities after a car accident. In one reality, his wife Hannah survives the accident; in the other reality, his son Rex survives. Michael does not know which reality is "real", and uses the wristbands to differentiate the two. He sees two therapists: Dr. Jonathan Lee in the "red reality" and Dr. Judith Evans in the "green reality". At work, Michael's erratic behavior triggers clashes with his team; they do not know about Michael's uncanny ability to solve crimes using details from both realities.

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Lucybespro It is a performances centric movie
Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.
Tobias Burrows It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.
Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.
sunny8420 I loved it! Seeing a show like Awake is really refreshing. This is something I can always get into. What bugs me however, is the fact that the shows I really love... gets canned or cuts off too early. Journeyman (Dan Vasser), Daybreak (Det. Brett Hopper), and a few others just didn't really make it past the first season. But these shows were amazing! *SPOILER ALERTS*! Here's how I feel after finishing up Season 1 again. Det. Britten was faced with a major dilemma, a life without his son, or life without his wife. I loved how both realities really shared hints and clues to the alternate reality. Although it may seem impossible to tell which one is real, I am sad that the writers had to wrap up the show the way they did. At least they ended it, so to speak. I couldn't imagine this entire season was one big bad nightmare. No no no, that's too simple. But then again the average couch potato doesn't care at all about something that challenges their mind or forces them to think too much.(Lack of viewers) It was interesting that Rex and Britten's wife were wearing the same cloths Det. Britten had pictured during the crash. I also laughed a bit when Michael Britten mentioned, "I feel like I have a time machine." Hell Yeah! To move from the one alternate reality you screwed up and save yourself in the other is pretty bad ass if you tell me. But the female therapist had to debunk his attempt at the idea that he is actually traveling through time. Maybe he did at the end. Let me explain.The green band (Rex is alive) vs the red band (Michael's wife is alive). The red band reality has reached the end, so we exhaust what's left of the green band's reality to uncover another underlying reality that Michael Britten has been working for. The overall fight he tried to accomplish since day one. And that is, a single reality where his wife and son can co-exist! Ding ding ding! So maybe the events happened the way they did, but like Edge Of Tomorrow (********SPOILER ALERT**********), he was sent back to an earlier time, i.e. before they got into the car/hours before the accident ever occurred.I'd like to thank the actors, writers, producers, and everyone who poured their time and energy into this amazing TV show. I hope to see something like this again, and hopefully it can get at least 8 seasons, that would be awesome! Imagining a show with Det. Britten (Jason Issacs), Det. Hopper (Taye Diggs), and Dan Vasser (Kevin McKidd). :)
davisnathan Honestly----do the TV execs even watch the shows they renew or cancel? Here is a show which had it all---suspense, a Stephen King quality story line, (and for those who don't know----that's good), great acting, excellent casting, engaging plot----you name it----it was ALL great.So----of course it got canceled. Not enough 12 year-olds----or people with IQ's less than 40 were watching apparently.We need to face it----the people in charge of the network decisions just aren't too bright----and that may be giving them WAY, WAY, WAY too much credit.So again----did they even WATCH an episode? My guess is NO.
runamokprods This imaginative, mind bending and clever series probably would have been much better off as a 6 part mini-series done for pay TV.As it is, it starts terrifically, with a detective (well played by producer Jason Isaacs) coming to after a terrible auto accident. He finds he never really sleeps, only awakens into two different worlds. The moment he falls asleep in one, he awakens in the other. In one, world his son survived the accident and his wife died, in the other, the reverse is true. He has no idea which is a dream and which is reality. He even has psychiatrists in each world trying to convince him that THIS is the real world. This is a great set up to deal with loss, grief, alternate realities, illusion, madness, etc.The problem is the middle of the series, when it gets away (somewhat) from the protagonist's fascinating confusions to try and act like a regular police procedural, with Detective Britton solving a "case of the week" in each world, usually abetted by some overlapping clue from his other world of existence. Here the show starts to feel far less interesting and more rote, just a cop show with a gimmick. The mysteries themselves are no great shakes, and get too little time to play out (2 crime stories each week, plus at least a few minutes on Britton's larger arc, and a 43 minute U.S. network running time means each crime gets about 17 minutes. Far to little to do much with them).But then, around 8 episodes in (I suspect when they knew they weren't being renewed for a season 2), the show starts to get bolder again, focusing more and more on the surreal central questions of reality and possible madness, and even the cases have a much more clear, direct bearing on what did or didn't happen to Britton in that accident, what is or isn't real. The show grows every more intense and cinematic and ends with a finale that will either infuriate or delight you, depending on your taste for dream imagery, ambiguity and David Lynch like surrealism. For me the pilot and the last 4 episodes made the whole thing more than worthwhile.A shame this seems to have has never been put out on DVD, although I did just find and order a set by Googling the show. But I'm concerned it may be a bootleg and/or low quality.Kudos for being bold, but after two very good series that failed on U.S. network TV (Lone Star and this) I hope talented writer/creator Kyle Killen will take his act to cable, where I think he is more likely to get the support for experimentation and complex story-telling he needs.
Kathleen Gaunt Bell I first heard about this show in early 2011 and I was immediately intrigued. Jason Isaacs was perfect as Michael Britten.I love well-done crime/forensic shows and this show had that and so much more. The crime/suspense themes in the show could have stood on their own, but the underlying thread of grief made it exceptional.I loved this show on so many levels it's difficult to describe. I would so dearly love to see it continue but it seems that when I truly love a show it doesn't make it to a second season (Flash Forward comes to mind). But even Flash Forward wasn't really in the same league as Awake.Save Awake! http://change.org/petitions/a-wake-up-nbc

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