One of the things I’ve been liking about NBC’s Awake, in which Jason Isaacs lives in two realities – one in which his wife is dead, the other, which he enters when he goes to sleep (and vice versa), in which his son is dead – is that it hasn’t been going for a sci-fi or supernatural explanation so far. In fact, it’s been coming at this from the point of view that this probably is a mental problem, the only issue being that we don’t know which reality is correct and which is the dream – and more to the point, do we really want to?
Looks like it’s going to be pushing that line of investigation even further on Thursday…
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I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.
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