[TV] Awake S01E01: Pilot

It's been a long time since i've been this excited about a TV series… i think the last ones that made me feel intrigued and got me this hooked were Dexter and The Event, so i'm happy to have a new series to really look forward to every week, even though we still have to wait a few days for "Awake" to officially start its run.
The main premise of the show is alternate realities, a topic i am really, really interested on, and the way they are working with it on the pilot is just superb. We get to meet the main character of the series, police detective Michael Britten, played by no other than Jason Isaacs, who's probably most famous for playing the villain Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter films. This time around, Isaacs' character goes through a tragic and, at the time, mysterious car accident with his wife and son. When he regains consciousness, he is split between two different realities: in one, his wife died and his son survived, and in the other, his son died and his wife survived. Which one is an actual reality and which one is a dream is what, undoubtedly, will play the main driving force of the entire series.

I particularly liked that the producers are already using the resource of crossing over realities, so clues that Britten gets in one reality as a detective, he can use it in the other in order to solve cases… that opens up several opportunities for interesting plot twists to be developed along the run of the series, and i'm sure it will probably be vital when solving the main mystery of why the original car accident happened and why was the main character split into two dimensions, so i for one am really looking forward to that.


One thing i couldn't help being reminded of was the different color tints used in movies like "Memento", where each reality is characterized by a different color (in this case, green for the "son reality" and red for the "wife reality"), and of course, the jumping from one dream to another is very reminiscent of the recent "Inception" movie, and being a fan of both those films, it goes without saying that i loved the inclusion of these ideas on "Awake", and am intrigued to see how they'll continue developing them. This series is scheduled to debut on March 1st at 10 PM EST, so make sure to check it out!

Starting with this review, i wanna use the main topic at hand of the episode i'm reviewing in order to present debate topics, and the one for this first showing of "Awake" is: What do you think about parallel realities? Do you believe that dreams are part of different dimensions we go to when we're asleep? Do you think that one day we may wake up in an entire different world, but we're still dreaming and we don't realize it? Please leave your comments below, i would really appreciate them.

Tags: (TV) Mystery