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''No escape from reality?'' }}
A high-concept [[Cop Show|cop drama]] premiering on February of 2012 in which Police Det. Michael Britten, played by Jason Isaacs, lives a double life in two separate realities after being in a car accident with his wife and son. In one reality, his wife Hannah (played by [[The 4400|Laura Allen]]) survived the accident, but their son Rex (played by Dylan Minnette) did not. When he falls asleep, he goes into the second reality, where the exact opposite happened; Hannah died, but Rex did not. The show follows Britten going about his life in each reality, mourning for his wife, son, and ''both'', in the two realities, as well as seeing two separate psychiatrists who have contrary opinions on the significance and psychological benefits of the "subconscious alternate reality" that he's created for himself.
While he's moving between these two worlds, Britten also has to deal with trying to solve crimes in the standard [[Cop Show]] procedural, with a different partner in each reality, and with the twist that the cases-of-the-week that they're working on are connected in ways that he doesn't always understand. It's up in the air which (if either) of the realities is a dream.
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* [[Aesop]]: Occasionally crops up but mostly for Britten himself. For instance, in "Game Day", we find out that he's stopped caring about certain things like sports because in living in two worlds, he's seen the same situation play out in two different ways due to minor differences. His stance is thus "It doesn't really matter"; however, by the end of the episode, he realizes that while those minor differences may not matter in the long run, their ramifications can be pretty dramatic. A fact he realizes when... {{spoiler|he considers when Rex got Emma pregnant.}}
* [[Blessed with Suck]]: Regardless of the ability to move between worlds, he cannot actually make use of the information from these different worlds without eliciting some very strong negative responses from everyone around him.
* [[Cannot Spit It Out]]:
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: {{spoiler|In the first episode, Britten says that he'd be willing to give up his sanity to be with his family again. This is what ends up happening by the end.}}
* [[Color-Coded for Your Convenience]]:The "wife is alive" is the "red" reality and filmed primarily in warmer tones (yellowish incandescent light on the walls of the house, for example), while the "son is alive" is the "green" reality and uses cooler tones (ambient diffuse natural light inside the house). Also done in-universe as Britten uses red and green rubber bands to remind himself of which reality he's in at the moment. This is played in with in a scene where Britten loses track of his bracelet and the color tones become ambiguous. When he realizes which reality he's in, the next scene change is back to warm tones.
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* [[Self-Harm]]: See [[Pinch Me]].
* [[Shadow Archetype]]: Gabriel Wyath III is acknowledged by Britten as what he fears becoming: a man suffering from mental illness, who's lost everything due to his refusal to recognise the death of a loved one.
* [[Shout-Out]]: To [[Mark Kermode]], Simon Mayo, and listeners of their show. The following line from episode 4, "Kate Is Enough" was put in by Jason Isaacs after he was dared to put the words "teapot" and/or "ukulele" into his series on Kermode & Mayo's show on December
{{quote|'''Britten''': He's not going to be playing the ''ukulele'' in heaven.}}
** In the red-reality end of "Slack Water", Emma has been watching a marathon of ''[[The X-Files]]'' on cable while the Brittens were out.
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