The Odyssey

TV Series
1992–1994
TV-14
30m

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8.0/10

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Ashleigh Aston Moore, Tony Sampson, and Illya Woloshyn in The Odyssey (1992)

Following an accident, young Jay Ziegler falls into a coma. While his family and friends must continue their lives in the Real World, Jay finds himself in the magical Downworld on a quest to return home.

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Following an accident, young Jay Ziegler falls into a coma. While his family and friends must continue their lives in the Real World, Jay finds himself in the magical Downworld on a quest to... Read allFollowing an accident, young Jay Ziegler falls into a coma. While his family and friends must continue their lives in the Real World, Jay finds himself in the magical Downworld on a quest to return home.Following an accident, young Jay Ziegler falls into a coma. While his family and friends must continue their lives in the Real World, Jay finds himself in the magical Downworld on a quest to return home.

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IMDb RATING

8.0/10

859

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 6 wins & 6 nominations

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One of the distinguishing characteristics of this series is the writers' use of mirroring between the Upworld and Downworld scenes. As the action switches back and forth between Jay's two worlds, one can see similarities in what's happening in each. For example, in Wanted (1992), his doctor and his mother decide to take him back to the forest where he fell from the treehouse, to mentally re-create the accident. As he is taken there in a wheelchair, the scenes in Downworld show him under arrest in the rebel camp, tied with ropes and moved around in a wheelbarrow. These types of simultaneous parallels, seen in most episodes (and often quite subtle), serve to reinforce the premise that, while things are happening in two 'worlds', they are in the mind of one person - Jay.

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[repeated line after Macro becomes Supreme Leader of Downworld]
Finger: Yes, your Macho-Supremoship.

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From Excellent to mediocre in three seasons

The first season was, as the subject line says: excellent. It was intriguing and rather unique as alternate world themes go. It made me want to watch season 2.

Season 2 was okay, but it started to become apparent that this was going somewhere that I didn't want to go, with a shift away from the first season concepts that made it so interesting to me. It was still worth watching though.

I watched season 3 to find out what the ending would be. I won't give it away, but it was very unsatisfying and disappointing in my opinion. This part of the series devolved into a teen drama that was more annoying than entertaining.

They should have tried to end this (with a different ending) in season 1 or season 2.