Awake (pilot)

Awake
(NBC/ Thurs 10-11PM)

This is a brand new tv show on NBC. I got an early sneak peek at the show which doesn't air until march 3. The show stars jason isaacs of lucius malfoy fame. In the show isaacs plays a detective who has just lost his son in a horrible car crash. In the show when isaacs falls asleep he dreams an alternate reality where his son lived and his wife died in the accident. His realities start blending together to the point that he lives in both realities and doesn't know which one is real and which one is a dream.
The reason the show is so enjoyable to watch is because of the similarities between the two worlds, how they both have him visiting a psychiatrist, in which both doctors say the other reality is made up in his mind to overcome the loss of his loved one.
I really enjoyed the show, and thought it was a good look into a persons fractured mind in the case of a recent loss.The show has great potential for being a great series, the only problem is i see the show as being too intelligent for most cable tv viewers. I feel that NBC has a very intelligent hit on its hands, but it might lack the big viewership that comes along with being an intelligent show very like community. Another aspect of the show that i found very interesting was how both realities were blending over into his cases in each reality. In one reality he might get a clue for why the little girl was kidnapped in the other reality. It makes for very intresting and pleasant melodrama and adds to the overall mystique of the show and the premise that we as the viewer really do not know what is going on.
All in all, i give the show a 10/10, the show had an excellent start and i hope it continues to be clever and inventive.
Till next time!
#Justin