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NBC has posted the first full episode online a day early. This premieres tomorrow night at 10, but why wait? I just watched it and liked it a lot. I'm not sure how deep they'll go into how everything works, but that might be for the best. I wonder if he's living days twice or if he's skipping them alternatively: "Dad, where were you all yesterday?" What happens if he takes a nap?

http://www.nbc.com/awake/video/special-full-episode-preview/1385322

I wonder if this'll help NBC at all. They seem to be pushing hard, but won't releasing things early have a potentially negative affect on air ratings? Or are they desperate enough for anything that can generate hype at this point?

@direspoon said:

I wonder if he's living days twice or if he's skipping them alternatively: "Dad, where were you all yesterday?" What happens if he takes a nap?

I'm not sure what you mean? The implication is that one of the worlds is a dream world, which he imagines when he is asleep at night.

I really like the pilot, but I felt the cop show part of it was really half-baked and far less interesting than both the mechanic of his travel through realities and the exploration of how his alternating grief plays out in a family separated by ... whatever mechanic. I really hope, and assume they won't, explain the conceit, because it's really not important to the storytelling opportunities. I just hope they make the procedural/investigative part less perfunctory.

@litrock: I rather enjoyed the procedural parts of the show, particularly how details spilled over from one world to the next. I feel like as long as the cases do have some impact on his emotional life and with his family, they are fine.

Since at the end of the episode he blatantly says that he doesn't want to let go of either of them, I'm guessing that the rest of the show will focus mostly on his efforts to hold on to both worlds and the resulting conflicts and crises that result from those efforts. Like how he freaked out and cut himself, but an escalated crumbling of the walls.

I'm mostly just curious as to whether they'll go actual alternate reality or it was all just a dream. Or neither! Maybe at the end of the show's run he'll pick a side and the other will go away and we'll never know the true nature of the world's.

I'm personally into the idea that he's the one who died in the car crash. Cliche, yeah, but I haven't seen a good "you were dead all along!" plot twist in a while. To be fair, the only one's I've seen are The Sixth Sense and one of the Silent Hill endings, both of which were great. Hmmm, so exactly how cliche is it...

To the wiki!

I am fairly sour about it, yes

Thanks for sharing the link. I have watched this show Only one time. It is a great session.