Prime Video’s latest offering, The Edge of Sleep is an American thriller series, based on a podcast that goes by the same name.
Written by Willie Block and Jake Emmanuel and directed by Corey Adams, The Edge of Sleep consists of six episodes.
There is also a book by the same name that has been inspired by the same podcast.
What is The Edge of Sleep based on?
The show The Edge of Sleep was created by Mark Fischbach, who is known to his subscribers by his YouTube name Markiplier.
The podcast had quickly become a hit, and was the biggest genre narrative podcast of all time. It had 6 million downloads and the numbers kept increasing.
A second season of the podcast was announced in April 2022 with an expected release in the same year. However, production has not yet begun even in 2024. However, series writer Jake Emmanuel had mentioned on X:
"Production has been hard to pin down simply because of everyone’s schedules."
Further adding that the second season has already been completely written and will be 11 episodes long.
The popularity of the podcast gave Mark Fischbach the idea of turning it into a TV series. He would be reprising his role as the night watchman and writers Willie Block and Jake Emanuel were ready to write for the TV version.
The team also attached Longlegs producer Brian Kavanaugh Jones to the project.
What is The Edge of Sleep about?
The Edge of Sleep is about a night watchman, Dave Torres, who after finishing his shift one night is horrified to discover that anyone who had gone to sleep the previous night has died.
He then embarks on a journey to survive this global epidemic along with other survivors while also dealing with the hallucinations he has been suffering from since childhood.
The official synopsis of the show reads:
“When a night watchman finishes his shift at work, he is terrified to discover that everyone in the world who went to sleep the previous night has died. Now he and a band of survivors must stay awake and uncover the secret of this global epidemic before they fall asleep.”
Who are the main characters in the TV adaptation of The Edge of Sleep?
Mark Fischbach reprises his role as Dave Torres, the nightwatchman for Daxalab. He has been tormented by disturbing dreams since his childhood and that has manifested into violent physical actions.
However, his character might be holding the solution to the bizarre deaths happening to people in their sleep.
The other regular characters in The Edge of Sleep include:
Lio Tipton as Katie Dowd: She is Dave’s ex-girlfriend. She is a drug addict and left Dave after a very traumatic event involving one of his nightmares.
- Eve Harlow as Linda Russo: She is a nurse at the Santa Mira Hospital. She remains to be the only person surviving after all the hospital staff die in their sleep. She joins Torres and Matteo in their search to find the reason behind these deaths.
- Franz Drameh plays Matteo León: He is Dave’s best friend and co-worker at Daxalab. He is also a US Air Force veteran.
The recurring characters in The Edge of Sleep include:
Carlo Rota as Dr. Luis Castaneda: He is a doctor who has specialized in studying dreams. He also developed the Dream Chamber and tried to treat Dave Torres when he was young.
- Lisa Durupt as Tracey Torres: She is Dave’s mother. She had taken Dave to a sleep specialist in his childhood to understand the root cause of his parasomnia.
- Luis Javier as Safet: He is the mysterious leader of a sect known as Dream People by Dave. His character was not named in the podcast.
The Edge of Sleep can be streamed on Prime Video.
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