Awake is such a strange breed of show. Personally, I can’t stand procedural shows. I have rarely ever watched CSI, NCIS, Law & Order or any other acronym shows, unless I was forced to. Procedurals bore me with their fill-in-the-blanks nature from episode to episode, which makes them perfect for syndication. It’s not so much the idea of the procedural that bothers me, it’s the fact that next week whatever crime has just been solved will not matter. Yet when Awake does it, I get excited about it. I enjoy the show’s constant flipping between realities and searching for clues in various forms. With “Kate Is Enough,” Awake is almost completely about the cases at hand, yet because the show is different enough to be refreshing, it pulls off its procedural aspects wonderfully.
While “Kate Is Enough” is for the most part procedural, the episode works as an overall metaphor for the struggle Britten has raging inside of him. In the red-tinted world, where his wife is alive, he runs into Kate, an old babysitter for his son Rex. She was onboard a boat in which a lingerie model died, and she is now a successful, powerful woman. In the blue-tinted world where his son is alive, he also runs into Kate, but here she is a failed actress who dated Charlie, a man known for his partying, who is now dead. In the red world, Kate is just a woman in the wrong place at the wrong time. The show even hints that there may be more than meets the eye to her in this reality, which never comes to fruition. In the blue world, she becomes a main suspect in the death of Charlie and turns out she orchestrated a botched robbery that ended with a dead ex.
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