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If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

The series is a regular cop procedural with the twist. After a brutal car accident Micheal Britten's world is split in two with every day being spent with a different loved one being either his son or his wife. This sense of duality also extends to his police partner and his psychiatrist who are different is both realities.While the mystery itself is great the structure of most episodes is where this show suffers. Since this is still a procedural most episodes go like this: Two police cases get opened and solved, Sub-plot with either or both his son and wife, Regular visits to either or both his psychiatrist to determine mental state with case and overall mystery of the show.That is a lot to cover in 40 minutes. So the whodunnit of the cases is either easy or simply unimportant while the overall mystery is a constant but never the focus until later in the season. It's a good thing the writing and acting is always on point. Everybody brings it even down to the guest actors every week for the cases. It also looks great with L.A looking good and a nice choice of color palettes with both realities having a distinct color (yellow and blue) making it easy to discern which is which. The episodes that stray away from it's usual structure are the strongest while also showing how well they managed to balance their multiple realities, characters and plot progression in those regular episodes. I will not go into the ending as i feel this show is worth watching. I will say that it is open-ended but satisfying at the same time.So if you like procedurals like CSI and law & order or mystery shows like Lost know that this is a marriage between the two. Which also means you're only gonna get half of both genres in most episodes.This has been a green review

My wife and I recently found this TV series on Netflix. We were completely caught up in the story and had to restrain ourselves from watching the entire season all at once.It's definitely a must see for anyone liking shows that have a plot for your brain to puzzle on. It didn't rely on, in fact it didn't really use at all any special effect or big time action scenes. I felt Jason Isaacs portrayed the character Michael Britton perfectly. Wilmer Valderrama and Steve Harris also played their characters very well and in a believable manner. In fact I think all the cast was great in the portrayal of their characters.A thumbs down to NBC for not being able to get this show the audience and ratings it deserved. A thumbs up to Netflix for making it available for me to watch.++++++++++++++++++spoiler below+++++++++++++++++++++++ The last episode is only a cliff-hangar for the next expected season, so unfortunately nothing is completely resolved. A new twist is added just so your brain can spin some more.

Honestly----do the TV execs even watch the shows they renew or cancel? Here is a show which had it all---suspense, a Stephen King quality story line, (and for those who don't know----that's good), great acting, excellent casting, engaging plot----you name it----it was ALL great.So----of course it got canceled. Not enough 12 year-olds----or people with IQ's less than 40 were watching apparently.We need to face it----the people in charge of the network decisions just aren't too bright----and that may be giving them WAY, WAY, WAY too much credit.So again----did they even WATCH an episode? My guess is NO.

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.