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Awake (TV Series)

TV Series. Drama. Thriller TV Series (2012). 13 Episodes. Police detective Michael Britten (Jason Isaacs) regains consciousness following a car accident involving his wife Hannah (Laura Allen) and his son Rex (Dylan Minnette). Michael moves back and forth between two realities: in one, Rex survived while Hannah is dead; in the other, Hannah survived but Rex did not. Trying to keep both his loved ones alive, Michael starts living a "double life," moving back and ... [+]
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SFGATE
SFGATE
"'Awake' grabs you, unnerves you, breaks your heart and even makes you work a little"  POS
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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
"Notwithstanding a certain stylistic chilliness and my sense of it having been pitched on the back of 'Inception', it promised to be one of the year's best and most interesting new series. (...) I'd say the promise has been largely kept"  POS
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Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly
"Creator Kyle Killen has set up a provocative, appealing puzzler, full of knottiness for the intellect and emotion for the heart" POS
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The New Yorker
The New Yorker
"'Awake' may be hard to categorize, but it's worth our attention"  POS
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Time
Time
"'Awake' manages something impressive: it focuses unflinchingly on the subject of loss, yet manages to be not a downer or painful to watch, but moving, absorbing and even hopeful"  POS
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The New York Times
The New York Times
"The hero of 'Awake' has a psychiatric problem; there are no aliens or ghosts to explain away the more improbable turns, and this adventure is far more compelling"  POS
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SFGATE
SFGATE
"If people stay with it, what they'll find are exceptional performances, some truly fine writing and a premise, by virtue of being complicated, that could unspool some really interesting plotlines"  POS
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Variety
Variety
"What sounds like a daring concept is quickly undercut by attempts to wrap the show in a police-procedural format"  NEU
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