Save yourselves! Do not watch "Awake".

A complex, unusual and philosophically fascinating premise. Check.

Subtle but sensitive and heartbreaking performances. Jason Isaacs is brilliant. Check.

Interweaving plot lines that do not get fouled up with blindingly obvious continuity errors. Check.

No matter how little screen time a character has, they are all well thought out and clearly have complex motivations - even if we don't know what they are. Check.

Dialogue. It has that dialogue where the characters never really say what they mean and dance around it but you can see everything they are not saying. It is so hard to get that right and they have it right. Check.

Every episode better than the last. tonight's just about killed me. Check.

I have not been this invested in finding out how a show comes out since the first few episodes of the British version of "Life on Mars." (And let me tell you, so far - it is Life On Mars good.)

Why then. Why?!?!?!? Am I telling you not to watch this show?




It's on fucking fox.

It's too late for me. I managed to catch a few random seconds of the third ep and was forced to go back and watch the whole thing. I know the pain and misery I will face. I have lived it before.

Heed this lesson my children. Don't follow me into the abyss. I love you too much to let that happen.