Maybe if this show had aired on FX or AMC or something, it would have several seasons under its belt and be legendary. Hard to say. In any case, it is leaving Netflix tonight at midnight Pacific time (3 AM Eastern), although if you start it before then you should be able to finish an episode after the deadline.
At the very least, I implore anyone with Netflix to watch the first eight minutes of the pilot, up to the title screen, and marvel at the audacity of its premise.
James Poniewozik: “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.”
Matt Zoller-Seitz: “Awake is that rarity of rarities, a TV series you haven’t seen before.”
Alan Sepinwall: “Far and away the best pilot episode I saw for any network series this season.”
Robert Lloyd: “What makes Awake work is the poetical idea, or a philosophical one, that underlies the narrative. It’s a thought experiment expressed as a drama and doesn’t need a rationale.”
Is that the show where the main character has two alternatives but no particular incentive to choose either one if it means the loss of the other, in this case whether his wife or his son perished?
I watched the first couple of episodes and heard it was cancelled so left it.
Looking at it now, it looks as if they made 12 episodes when I thought it was only six.
However, I didn’t expect it to get resolved. It also struck me as highly repetitive when I watched them. The old “same scenes over and over again” which filled me with dread on the idea of six never mind twelve episodes.
Brilliant show. I watched the original run and loved not only the concept, but the ways they used it, as things that happened in one would would give insights to the other.
It was cancelled too soon, and the potential second season opened more possibilities.
There were some midseason episodes that were fillerish, but I thought it ended really strongly. Sad that it left Netflix!
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Amazing amount of detail about one episode of a short lived series.
Watched the whole run when it came out mainly because of the actors. I could see why it wasn’t going to grab a big audience.
As to the finale “cliff hanger” mentioned upthread, what? They did a happy, fuzzy, everything’s swell series finale. The series could not continue with the two realities modality. It was so over.
I rewatched, and it does end in a way that can be taken that way. Given that it never returned, that’s how I will see it for the sake of closure. But the showrunner said he planned to continue, with one storyline taking place in prison.
A day late, I’d say! I wonder if it will come back to Netflix, or go to Hulu or Amazon. Would be a real shame if it just disappeared.
Did anyone check it out for the first time because of this thread?
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I had never heard about until this thread. I turned it on late last night and watched a couple of episodes and loved it. I planned on binging the rest today. I was soooooo disappointed that it wnasnt on. It said ending on the 32st. I thought that meant end of day. OH well.
