Awake (TV series)
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | Awake |
| Original title | Awake |
 | |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| year | 2012 |
| Production company |
Letter Eleven, Teakwood Lane Productions, 20th Century Fox Television |
| Episodes | 13 in 1 season |
| genre | Drama , crime film |
| idea | Kyle Killen |
| production | David Slade, Kyle Killen, Jason Isaacs , Howard Gordon , Keith Redmon |
| music |
Reinhold Heil , Johnny Klimek |
| First broadcast | March 1, 2012 (USA) on NBC |
First publication in German |
January 15, 2017 on Netflix |
| occupation | |
Awake is an American television series about the police officer Michael Britten, who lives in two realities after a car accident. In the United States, the series aired on NBC in 2012 . In Germany, the series was released in 2014 in the original language with German subtitles on ProSieben Maxx . A German dubbed version was released on Netflix in 2017.
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Michael Britten, a police officer, lives in two separate realities after waking up after a serious car accident with his wife and son. In one reality, in which he wears a red bracelet, his wife Hannah survived the accident, in the other, in which he wears a green bracelet, she died while his son Rex survived. He always changes reality when he falls asleep or loses consciousness. For the viewer, both realities are kept completely in the respective color. At first he has great problems finding his way around it, but over time he gets used to the change and continues to live separately with the two family members. In both worlds, he also visits two different therapists who each want to convince him of the authenticity of their reality and see the corresponding other world as a dream with which Britten wants to process the death of the respective family member. Michael also has something to do with Doctor Lee from the "red" reality outside of the sessions. B. comes to a hostage-taking in a hospital.
In the “red” reality, in which his son is no longer alive, Michael and Hannah want to have a second child as a replacement for their son - a project with which Michael initially has problems, since he is in the other reality with his Son lives together. When it turns out that Rex's friend Emma had been impregnated by him before his death, Hannah in particular tries to get involved in order to be involved in the growing up of the child - her grandchild. This is also the reason why the move out of the city, which had been planned for some time, was rejected.
Michael is a detective and has the same manager, Trishia Harper, but different partners in both worlds. In the “red” reality this is Elfrem Vega, in the other Isaiah “Bird” Freeman. Usually the cases in which Michael investigates in both worlds in parallel have to do with each other or he can use the knowledge gained from one to solve the case in the other. This also helps him when his son was kidnapped once and the kidnapper was shot in a meeting that went wrong. Such tips - apparently premonitions or tips from anonymous sources - often lead to suspicion among his investigating partners.
While Michael cannot remember the details of the accident at first, his memory gradually returns. It turns out during the course of the season that the car accident was actually a planned assassination attempt on Michael so that he could not get in the way of a heroin smuggling. Involved in this are Ed Hawkins, Bird's current investigation partner in the "red" reality or former investigation partner in the "green", as well as Britten's superiors Harper and Carl Kessel, Bird's current (red) and former (green) superiors. In the last three episodes the situation comes to a head as Michael learns more and more about the background of the accident and it is therefore to be eliminated. Ultimately, Harper shoots Kessel in the green reality and makes it look like suicide in order not to let any trace of him lead to her, Hawkins is killed there by Michael. This is made possible by clues from the red world, which suddenly becomes very surreal and disappears when Michael discovers the plot in the green world.
The resolution of the background remains open at the end of the 1st season (and thus finally). During a final session with the therapist Doctor Evans, time suddenly seems to stand still around him. A door opens through which he comes into his bedroom and moments later wakes up in his bed in the actual, "uncolored" reality. When he comes into the kitchen, he initially finds neither his son nor his wife there, but then they both come in together. The viewer ultimately remains in the dark about the crucial question of what can be defined as a dream and what as reality. The direction of the viewer based on the color-coded bracelets until they are finally missing and the episode name "One World" in addition to the constantly maintained balance game between the question of whether Michael gives up one of his worlds (which he has always successfully opposed) rather suggest that He, in order not to have to realize the death of his wife and son in the accident, as the last possibility of the psyche to bring both dreams together into "One World" rather than one dream.
Cast and dubbing
The German dubbing is done under the dialogue direction of Natascha Geisler by the dubbing company EuroSync GmbH in Berlin .
| Role name | actor | reality | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Britten | Jason Isaacs | Red Green | Torsten Michaelis |
| Hannah Britten | Laura Allen | red | Mareile Moeller |
| Rex Britten | Dylan Minnette | green | |
| Isaiah "Bird" Freeman | Steve Harris | green | Peter Reinhardt |
| Dr. Jonathan Lee | Bradley Darryl Wong | red | Gerald Schaale |
| Tare | Michaela McManus | Red Green | Sandrine Mittelstädt |
| Elfrem Vega | Wilmer Valderrama | red | Nico Sablik |
| Dr. Judith Evans | Cherry Jones | green | Marianne Gross |
| Tricia Harper | Laura Innes | Red Green | |
| Emma | Daniela Bobadilla | Red Green | Lydia Morgenstern |
production
At the beginning of February 2011, NBC commissioned the pilot episode for the series, but at the time it was still under the title Rem . About two weeks later, Jason Isaacs was cast in the lead role . In mid-March, Wilmer Valderrama , Steve Harris , Bradley Darryl Wong , Laura Allen and Dylan Minnette were hired for further leading roles . A short time later, Cherry Jones and Michaela McManus also joined the cast of the series. In May 2011, the series was officially ordered as a series together with the series Grimm and The Playboy Club .
The series began broadcasting on March 1, 2012. The Firm had previously been broadcast on this slot . After the series' ratings were mixed, NBC ended the series after the first season.
Charisma
- United States
The series began airing on NBC March 1, 2012 and was viewed by 6.2 million viewers. The pilot episode was previously released on Hulu on February 16, 2012 . The last episode aired on May 24, 2012 after the series was canceled.
- Germany
From January 8 to 29, 2014, ProSieben Maxx broadcast three episodes of the series at a time, and four episodes on January 29, 2014, in the English original language with German subtitles. The German synchronization of the series was released on January 15, 2017 on Netflix.
Episode list
| No. | German title | Original title | First broadcast in the USA | German language first broadcast (D) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | This is not a dream! | pilot | 1st Mar 2012 | Jan 15, 2017 |
| 2 | A little man | The Little Guy | March 8 2012 | Jan 15, 2017 |
| 3 | Alone in the desert | Guilty | 15th Mar 2012 | Jan 15, 2017 |
| 4th | A cottage is enough | Kate is enough | 22 Mar 2012 | Jan 15, 2017 |
| 5 | Why only Oregon? | Oregon | 29 Mar 2012 | Jan 15, 2017 |
| 6th | Not my penguin | That's not my penguin | Apr 5, 2012 | Jan 15, 2017 |
| 7th | Mirage | Ricky's tacos | Apr 12, 2012 | Jan 15, 2017 |
| 8th | At night in the swimming pool | Nightswimming | April 19, 2012 | Jan 15, 2017 |
| 9 | The last game | Game Day | Apr 26, 2012 | Jan 15, 2017 |
| 10 | Emma | Slack water | May 3, 2012 | Jan 15, 2017 |
| 11 | The end of a dream? | Say Hello to My Little Friend | May 10, 2012 | Jan 15, 2017 |
| 12 | The double bird | Two birds | 17th May 2012 | Jan 15, 2017 |
| 13 | One World | Turtles All the Way Down | May 24, 2012 | Jan 15, 2017 |
Web links
- Awake in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website at NBC
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Awake. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on January 18, 2014 .
- ↑ Development Update: Thursday, February 3 . In: thefutoncritic.com . February 3, 2011. Retrieved January 18, 2014.
- ↑ Development Update: Monday, February 21 . In: thefutoncritic.com . February 21, 2011. Retrieved January 18, 2014.
- ↑ Development Update: Monday, March 14 . In: thefutoncritic.com . March 14, 2011. Retrieved January 18, 2014.
- ↑ Trio Added to NBC's 2011-12 Season Roster; "Parenthood," "Harry's Law" Renewed . In: thefutoncritic.com . May 12, 2011. Retrieved January 18, 2014.
- ↑ Christian Junklewitz: NBC: Awake is coming, The Firm is going on Saturday . In: Serienjunkies.de . February 3, 2012. Retrieved January 18, 2014.
- ↑ Bernd Michael Krannich: Awake: NBC does not order a second season . In: Serienjunkies.de . May 12, 2012. Retrieved January 18, 2014.
- ↑ a b AWAKE (NBC) . In: thefutoncritic.com . Retrieved January 18, 2014.
- ↑ Christian Junklewitz: US quotas: Restrained start for Awake [Update ] . In: Serienjunkies.de . March 2, 2012. Retrieved January 18, 2014.
- ↑ Adam Arndt: Awake: German premiere of the US series on ProSieben MAXX . In: Serienjunkies.de . November 20, 2013. Retrieved January 18, 2014.
- ↑ Mario Giglio: Play By Day: German premiere of Awake at ProSieben MAXX . In: Serienjunkies.de . January 8, 2014. Retrieved January 18, 2014.