Review of Awake

Awake (2012)
6/10
Interesting and has potential but some bad casting
18 March 2012
Warning: Spoilers
I have only seen two episodes, and find that the series has potential - it has a hint of (SPOILER ALERT) science fiction at the end of episode 2 when one of the psychologists confers with someone in a secretive way that hints at some experiment being performed on the protagonist. This thread of the possibility of a reason for the dual realities makes it more interesting than it would be if it were a simple matter of a guy losing his mind due to an unbearable tragedy. However, in an apparent concession that there needs to be a "babe" to keep public interest, the protagonist is married to someone who could be his daughter, and who shows all the emotion of someone who lost a tennis ball, instead of a son. So the scenes with them are jarring and unconvincing - I'm not asking that the wife be the same age - that would no doubt violate every rule in Hollywood - but say, within a few years instead of 20 might've helped, and also, it would've helped if she'd had something to bring to the table besides blonde cuteness. Fortunately not all scenes involve the husband and wife together so the rest is sufficient to maintain interest.
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