91 - Awake (2012)
Added 2023-06-14 05:27:42 +0000 UTCBrian and A.J. slap on some red/green wristbands and summon a CGI penguin to help them solve the mystery of Kyle Killen’s cult TV one-season wonder: Awake. Topics include the absolutely wild premise, the advantages of casting two broadway legends as therapists, and the importance of taking big swings on network television.
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Media Referenced in this Episode:
- Awake (2011) Available on Prime
- Episode One: “Pilot”
- Episode Six: “That’s Not My Penguin”
- Episode Thirteen: “Turtles All The Way Down”
- “'Awake' finale questions answered by creator” by Mandi Bierly, Entertainment Weekly May 26th 2012
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Commercial: “Boshes All the Way Down”
Comments
Its two lines AJ! Two lines!
Kristan Seemel
2024-01-28 23:45:00 +0000 UTCNot sure if it really was a one season wonder or intended as a single miniseries but my personal “have you heard the good news about…” is a BBC crime drama called River with Stellan Skarsgård which is (imo) both a fascinating show and great portrayal of mental illness, which is also why I defend it from getting compared to Raines.
Amy Godliman
2023-11-23 20:41:27 +0000 UTCFascinating how much that show’s own producers seemed to hate it and torpedoed everything good after season one. The background of it is…so weird.
Amy Godliman
2023-11-23 20:35:57 +0000 UTCI think a lot more people were naive to the idea of multiple universes back in 2012 simply because Bioshock INFINITE came out in March of 2013 and so many people were blown away by the idea of a multiverse. So happy someone else was as into awake as it was airing as I was, I saw each episode as it came out with my mother back in the day and was really enraptured by the way it tried so earnestly to tell a story that seemed so bizarre for network TV at the time.
Breaker
2023-07-11 01:20:10 +0000 UTCcan i have mr cool voltaire charged for sex crimes for exposing me to that ad break, perchance?
BrianAlflordIsGoodActually
2023-06-16 03:07:54 +0000 UTCOh dang, talking about the background plot is giving me flashbacks to The Mentalist, another procedural from the era. Spouse and I were OBSESSED, was he gonna get Red John? The Blake Association thing was so stupid though. Snickered everytime these grown men went "Tyger Tyger!" to each with serious faves. LMAO. Simon Baker did so good though at insta flipping from charming and smiling to cold blooded.
Dergon
2023-06-15 17:20:50 +0000 UTC“Sure sure sure” is the only reason I listen and I am actually only half kidding because it soothes me
William Brito
2023-06-15 03:33:59 +0000 UTCI should have known that the tinniest country boy meant we were eventually headed for micro/macro and we finally got there
Aysha U. Farah
2023-06-14 22:43:48 +0000 UTCOne thing maybe worth pointing out about the "multiverse vs time travel vs dream/ reality" debate is that Inception had just come out two years before this, and I don't think Nolan had spoiled the ending yet by that point. That may have played a role in critics getting fixated on the "which one is real" question.
Nathan Woods
2023-06-14 21:36:37 +0000 UTCAn all suresuresure supercut.
Craig Sokol
2023-06-14 18:44:10 +0000 UTCCOWARDS! Release the "sure, sure, sure" cut!
im so daddy i havent slept in a year
2023-06-14 17:16:08 +0000 UTCOur early 2010's weird procedural of choice was the (deranged) glory that was 'Sleepy Hollow'. Any fans among the lads?
Scaredycrow
2023-06-14 16:09:06 +0000 UTCOMG, I watched Terriers. Finally, a reference I recognize. All shows I like get cancelled. It's like a curse. P.S.: Have either of you watched "Fringe"? That's a show that went straight into the memory hole. It ran btw. 2008 - 2013 and if I remember correctly, it was about parallel dimensions waging war with each other.
Wilko
2023-06-14 15:31:53 +0000 UTCA minor point: Donnie Darko is technically a time travel movie as well as a multiverse movie, only instead of it being a character moving through time, the time traveler is the falling jet engine, which both generates the multiverse by landing incorrectly, and later fully collapses the created unstable multiverse when it goes back through time and lands in the "correct place", that being "directly on top of Donnie".
Craig Sokol
2023-06-14 12:10:57 +0000 UTCYes, go off Kings! Specifically, go off about Kings, I look forward to that episode.
BarFly
2023-06-14 11:03:33 +0000 UTC
