Contributor: Henry T.

Story by Kyle Killen, Leonard Chang, and Noelle Valdivia
Teleplay by Kyle Killen
Directed by Miguel Sapochnik

The final episode of Awake didn’t answer the bulk of the questions I had coming into it, least of all which world depicted throughout the season was the “real” world, but the last section presents a neat open-ended ( Read more... )

Contributor: Henry T.

Story by Evan Katz
Teleplay by Howard Gordon and Davey Holmes
Directed by Milan Cheylov

We are now in the middle section of a three-part trilogy of episodes to end this series. Judging a middle section of such a trilogy (whether it be movies or something else) is a notoriously difficult thing to do. If “Say Hello to My Little ( Read more... )

Contributor: Henry T.

Written by Kyle Killen and Leonard Chang
Directed by Laura Innes

This show delves into dreams and the notion of reality. Dreams tend to be extensions of whatever a person’s reality is at that time. There is a warped sense of time passing when dreams are involved. I write this now because it hadn’t occurred to me that it’s been ( Read more... )

Written by Noelle Valdivia
Directed by Nick Gomez

It must be intentional on the writers’ part to de-emphasize Rex and the world where he lives on instead of Hannah. He’s absent yet again in this episode, and that means Michael focuses on a routine double homicide investigation. I mean, the case has a nice initial fake-out with who the intended ( Read more... )

Contributor: Henry T.

Written by Howard Gordon and David Graziano
Directed by Michael Waxman

As a long-time sports fan, I will personally admit to wondering what it would be like for games to have different outcomes. We all wonder what the opposite outcome would be. Also, I’ve been watching television for a long time as well and I’m well-versed in ( Read more... )

Contributor: Henry T.

Written by Leonard Chang and Davey Holmes
Directed by Jeffrey Reiner

This episode, “Awake” made full use of its police procedural format. It might be the simplest of episodes the show has aired so far. It’s also one that didn’t put Detective Britten in the spotlight very much. Instead, there’s focus on an accountant for a ( Read more... )

Contributor: Henry T.

Story by Kyle Killen
Teleplay by Howard Gordon and Evan Katz
Directed by Adam Davidson

Continuing with Michael’s increasing mental breakdown, the show has ventured into auditory hallucinations. Listening to instructions from a drive-thru ordering machine may be unorthodox, but that’s par for the course with a show like this. ( Read more... )

Contributor: Henry T.

Written by Kyle Killen and Noelle Valdivia
Directed by Scott Winant

Michael’s mental deterioration is accelerating at a rate that I never expected. At the very least, I thought he would grow more comfortable with the two worlds he inhabits before the rug is pulled out from under him. This episode proves that he is losing the ( Read more... )

Contributor: Henry T.

Written by Lisa Zwerling
Directed by Aaron Lipstadt

Based on the few episodes that have aired after the pilot, there seems to be more interest in the events of the Rex world more than the Hannah world. I really wouldn’t have noticed until this episode, when the police worked the serial killer case in the Rex world, while the ( Read more... )

Contributor: Henry T.

Written by Kyle Killen
Directed by Sarah Pia Anderson

Imagining what might have happened differently in one’s life is something a lot of us do on a lark. It’s a pipe dream, of course, but in the case of Michael Britten, it’s something he’s literally experiencing.


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