High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Slack Water" is the tenth episode of the American television police procedural fantasy drama Awake, which originally aired on the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) on May 3, 2012. Written by Noelle Valdivia and directed by Nick Gomez, "Slack Water" was watched by 2.15 million viewers, including 0.7 percent of those aged between 18 and 49 in Nielsen ratings, upon its initial broadcast in the United States. Critics were largely positive in their reviews of the installment.