Awake: First Look at NBC's Mind-bending New Midseason Drama

Awake might be one of the most clever of the new NBC pilots, which actually kind of worries me, given the apparent complex plots of shows like FlashForward and The Event and how both of those shows ended up losing interest from many viewers and were canceled.
That being said, I'm hopeful that this mind-bending drama will hit it big with viewers when it premieres in NBC's midseason schedule.
Awake stars several well-known actors, including Jason Issacs (Harry Potter), BD Wong (Law & Order: SVU), Cherry Jones (24), Michaela McManus (The Vampire Diaries), Wilmer Valderrama (That '70s Show) and Steve Harris (The Practice).
Issacs stars as Detective Michael Britten, who is in a horrific car accident with his wife and son.  After waking up from the crash, he's told that his wife Hannah (Laura Allen, Terriers) died, but his son Rex (Dylan Minnette, Saving Grace) is still alive.
Soon, however, Michael's life becomes even more complicated when he awakens in another reality: one in which Rex is dead but Hannah is alive.  These two parallel - and sometimes competing - lives play out each day, even as Michael returns to work, with two different partners.  Wong and Jones star as the psychiatrists that Michael visits in each reality in an attempt to figure out what's going on inside his head.
Below is a trailer for the series and three sneak peeks from Awake's pilot episode.
Awake will premiere midseason on NBC.





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