family family fictional characters featured american television police procedural fantasy drama awake nuclear family consisting married couple michael hannah child son family involved car crash caused michael live separate realities wife hannah killed crash son killed main characters reside los_angeles california united_states created series executive producer writer conceived idea creating developing lone star fox network portrayal family praised television critics alongside main family members characters mentioned main family family live los_angeles california united_states unknown address michael father works police detective alongside partner calls bird car crash michael father live separate realities wife hannah killed crash son killed reality works new rookie partner goes work reality partnered bird separate reality michael married hannah american housewife mother son child school teenager emotional rude gets low grades hannah death reality best friend cole works family owns chevrolet vehicle creation conceived idea creating developing lone star fox network nbc encouraged conceive concept future television series cancellation weeks sent rough draft script agent clock morning remember script went upstairs guest bedroom wife sick flu got bed recalled called said telling script remarkable read pilot like guy written procedural life actually making cases work initially looked sell acquisition rights fox family debuted march pilot american police procedural drama television series awake hour series broadcast national_broadcasting_company nbc appeared television network turtles way casting february obtained role central character series gordon premise character guy goes sleep wakes wife goes sleep wakes son cop sees clues details crossover world uses insight solve crimes thought premise series audiences making easier broader fanbase think aspects lone star difficult wider broader audience interested articulated main character somebody couldn decide liked hated think dilemma sympathetic want win succeeding month approached producers play initially received role later given role allen originally auditioned play march cast commended episode script noted auditioning sequence fast stated process getting job actually went fast audition room jason room cast director room director room audition like wow okay received role weeks audition portrayed father family married hannah live separate realities car crash wife hannah killed crash son killed reality works new rookie partner goes work reality partnered bird separate reality wears green wrist band reality alive red wrist band reality hannah seen emotional hello little friend doesn son realities michael routine help maintain control portrayed meaning emotional wife michael mother son alive michael red reality began home car crash hardly showed felt great pain death thought room upstairs portrayed michael son featured michael green reality green favorite color teenage school student outside school claims going beach going best friend cole house work like hannah emotional gets angry hannah death crash kept tennis remain deal hannah death cole accidentally broke fights later apologizes hates night michael doesn cook actual food dinner aunt named carol mentioned birds michael green reality wants spend time crash reception portrayal family praised television critics ken_tucker entertainment_weekly keen acting series helps enormously playing lead actor knows convey gravity contrasts series concept avoids heavy west cast couldn better series delivered stellar performance intelligent detective loving father husband trying sense going probably entirely experiencing split reality claimed deliver strong performances michael wife son respectively critics ign fanatic paste magazine argued performance deserves emmy
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