{"id":1826,"date":"2012-05-30T08:58:39","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T14:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=1826"},"modified":"2012-05-27T19:08:46","modified_gmt":"2012-05-28T01:08:46","slug":"post-mortem-awake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/post-mortem-awake\/","title":{"rendered":"Post Mortem &#8211; Awake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Awake.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1893\" title=\"Awake\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Awake.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Awake.jpg 570w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Awake-300x157.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/a>Awake billed itself as a procedural with a twist, and, ultimately, that is why it failed. \u00a0The twist, that Detective Michael Britton lives in two realities, one where a car accident claimed his wife and the other where it claimed his son, was likely a little too out there for the audience looking for a straight procedural. \u00a0The audience that would normally embrace a show like this was likely put off by the fact that the twist was mostly used as window dressing. \u00a0There was no mystery as to what was causing the double life, it just was, and Britton just went about his business without ever trying to figure out what was happening to him.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the day, the show managed to alienate both audiences, and what could have been an intriguing show that scratched an itch that has gone unscratched since Lost went off the air will be quickly forgotten now that its small run has concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awake billed itself as a procedural with a twist, and, ultimately, that is why it failed. \u00a0The twist, that Detective Michael Britton lives in two realities, one where a car accident claimed his wife and the other where it claimed his son, was likely a little too out there for the audience looking for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[696,656],"class_list":["post-1826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-television","tag-awake","tag-lost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1826"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1895,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions\/1895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}