This is not a typical trailer review in that this is for a TV series rather than a film. Still, I really wanted to document my reactions to it because the trailer got me excited for what it presented :
- a detective procedural drama
- a story about a man living in parallel universes, tackled in a realistic way-- as a psychological, PTSD-type disorder-- rather than taking a science fiction slant.
- a dark-haired
- B.D. Wong playing another shrink in another NBC drama (this guy is too cool for school, did you know he once had a one-man show on Broadway?)
- an exploration of grief, choosing when and how to let go after the loss of a loved one
- another perspective on dreams vs. reality, of how to tell when you're awake and when you're not. I bet this series was probably already in production before "Inception" came out, so the movie probably didn't have any impact on the creation of "Awake". I think that in the wake (pun intended) of that film, this TV show could do well by exploring this field even further. I've never seen Sliding Doors but I imagine that, since that movie deals with parallel universes/alternate realities, this show will draw something from that as well. I'm most interested in the ways that the two worlds overlap and maybe influence each other, perhaps helping Isaacs character gather information from one side to help solve a case on the other. (Slightly related digression: Recently I went to go pay for something in cash but realized that I only had one dollar when I thought I had ten ones; that night I dreamt that I looked in my wallet and found a Hamilton staring back at me.)
This series reminds me of another NBC detective procedural, called Life. I really liked it, but it got axed after two seasons. I'll have to write another post on why I liked it so much.
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