sterlizsilver
Overall this was a great series. Plot twists were great and every episode kept me guessing which reality was the right reality. In the end... some things I found predictable but the final show was definitely unexpected.This series didn't get a full 10 out of 10 because I felt like the series ended abruptly. Like the writers had intended to take the series along to another season but didn't get the chance for some reason. Probably canceled before anyone had time to discover it. But the last episode felt rushed and kind of like a giant kick in the Balls. I mean if I had balls.If you've ever watched family guy and seen the two part episode "Stewie Kills Lois" it's kinda like that. No real explanation for everything that happens just an ending. A good ending mind you... just not being filled with much to make sense of.Still I would dub this series as a must watch, your brain will never get so much exercise save watching Sherlock with Benedict Cumberbatch.
richarddupar
Jason Isaacs (Britten) carries the show with an impeccable performance; without it the show would have failed. Laura Allen and Dylan Minnette are convincing as the wife and son; Steve Harris and Wilmer Valderrama play Britten's partners in the different realities. The really enjoyable performances are delivered by BD Wong and Cherry Jones as Britten's therapists. It is in these scenes the show shines. The dialogue is excellent and serves as a counterweight to the (only somewhat) more traditional crime and family story lines. The show is refreshing in its originality, the story lines and most of the dialogue is, as far as I can tell, excellent craftsmanship, and great acting brings every episode home. In fact, the show has thus far shone brighter with every episode. I have long awaited a show like this, and it is by far the most interesting _new_ TV-series this year.
runamokprods
This imaginative, mind bending and clever series probably would have been much better off as a 6 part mini-series done for pay TV.As it is, it starts terrifically, with a detective (well played by producer Jason Isaacs) coming to after a terrible auto accident. He finds he never really sleeps, only awakens into two different worlds. The moment he falls asleep in one, he awakens in the other. In one, world his son survived the accident and his wife died, in the other, the reverse is true. He has no idea which is a dream and which is reality. He even has psychiatrists in each world trying to convince him that THIS is the real world. This is a great set up to deal with loss, grief, alternate realities, illusion, madness, etc.The problem is the middle of the series, when it gets away (somewhat) from the protagonist's fascinating confusions to try and act like a regular police procedural, with Detective Britton solving a "case of the week" in each world, usually abetted by some overlapping clue from his other world of existence. Here the show starts to feel far less interesting and more rote, just a cop show with a gimmick. The mysteries themselves are no great shakes, and get too little time to play out (2 crime stories each week, plus at least a few minutes on Britton's larger arc, and a 43 minute U.S. network running time means each crime gets about 17 minutes. Far to little to do much with them).But then, around 8 episodes in (I suspect when they knew they weren't being renewed for a season 2), the show starts to get bolder again, focusing more and more on the surreal central questions of reality and possible madness, and even the cases have a much more clear, direct bearing on what did or didn't happen to Britton in that accident, what is or isn't real. The show grows every more intense and cinematic and ends with a finale that will either infuriate or delight you, depending on your taste for dream imagery, ambiguity and David Lynch like surrealism. For me the pilot and the last 4 episodes made the whole thing more than worthwhile.A shame this seems to have has never been put out on DVD, although I did just find and order a set by Googling the show. But I'm concerned it may be a bootleg and/or low quality.Kudos for being bold, but after two very good series that failed on U.S. network TV (Lone Star and this) I hope talented writer/creator Kyle Killen will take his act to cable, where I think he is more likely to get the support for experimentation and complex story-telling he needs.
mformoviesandmore
I watched one episode.Usually you can get a feel for a program quite quickly.The production style and general theme seemed a bit like Lie To Me, and was similarly hoping to play on having a 'unique' slant.The supporting actors seemed to be second rate and very stereotypical.The premise is interesting. The show wasn't.All the premise seems to mean is having two crimes to solve each week/episode with some commonality in the clues.Whopee.Nice try; but no cigar.
