AWAKE (2012) NBC

IMDB synopsis:

After a car accident takes the life of a family member, a police detective lives two alternating parallel lives, one with his wife and one with his son. Is one of his “realities” merely a dream?

Have you ever had a dream that was so good you didn’t want to wake up? That is the idea that ‘Awake’ takes to the extreme. Most often dreams are one off things. But what if every night your dream continued, and when you went to sleep in the dream you woke up in reality and when you went to sleep in reality you woke up in the dream?  How could you distinguish which is actually reality?

In ‘Awake’ Jason Isaacs stars as Detective Michael Britten. In reality his son died in a car accident, while his wife survived. When he falls asleep he dreams of a world where his wife died, but his son survived…or is it the other way around?

This show deals with the philosophical ideas of what reality actually is like so many shows and movies, but in a much more relatable way. We all dream, and we all wake up. Sometimes in the groggy between we may have some confusion over which is which, but what happens when that confusion is never cleared? Also, if the scenario were real, which reality would you choose to believe? The one where your child is alive and your spouse is dead? Or the one where your spouse is alive and your child is dead?

On top of this, it was also a procedural cop show, where Detective Britten would find clues to the case he was working on in the ‘other’ world. Sadly, this was a one and done series and lot of things didn’t get wrapped up before it was taken off the air. But was still an interesting watch that I would recommend if you can find it.