Epistemology 101 Awake NBC, Thursdays, 10 PM ET/PT “Pilot” Written by Kyle Killen Directed by David Slade “The Little Guy” Written by Kyle Killen Directed by Jeffrey Reiner “Something which I thought I was seeing with my eyes is in fact grasped solely by the faculty of judgment which is in my mind.” — Rene Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy Just when I was sick unto the very death of police procedurals, along comes NBC with the weirdest “twist” of all: alternate realities. Detective Michael Britten (Jason Isaacs, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) survives a car accident, but still isn’t…
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Alcatraz: “Jack Sylvane” & “Ernest Cobb”
Hard Time Alcatraz Fox, Mondays, 10 PM “Jack Sylvane” Written by Elizabeth Sarnoff & Steven Lilien & Bryan Winbrandt Directed by Danny Cannon “Ernest Cobb” Written by Alison Belian Directed by Jack Bender “This is Alcatraz. No one forgets” – First Guard So. Here we are again: a mystery island, underground bunkers, and Jorge Garcia. Reruns of Lost? No, this is JJ Abrams’ newest excursion into weird TV, Alcatraz, which is supposed to be a police procedural with a time-travel twist. I’m not sure these ingredients are going to work this time around, because they’re in a different context. First of all,…