Medium

[gategrrl]

I don't know if anyone on my flist watches Medium anymore, but, what the heck.

Last night's episode was disappointing to say the least. The scripts for this show have been progressively showing Alison breaking down further and futher and losing that cool control of herself in the face of her visions. There aren't any supporting character development beats that help the character change. It also doesn't help that the focus of the series seems to be changing from down-to-earth (no pun intended) crimes and personal foibles, to more far-out and perposterous plots and so forth. 

The episode from a couple of weeks ago, with Captain Push, was interesting, as well as brutal, but the week after and this week's were...well, how many times are they going to have Alison taken over by a person who doesn't know they're dead? It's already happened once before.

I still love the family interaction -- oh yeah. I'll have to rewatch the more recent shows, but I've noticed that the actor who plays Joe, the Husband, is RARELY in the same shots with the kids, unless he has some direct interaction with them. It's noticable, especially in this last episode. They'll cut away from him but leave his voice talking as the camera pans over to Alison/PA.  When I saw the extras on the season one DVDs, it was evident that he wasn't used to working with kids, nor did he particularly seem to enjoy working with them, and these kids in particular are on the ball and very much scene stealers. They are pros.  If the actor isn't dealing well with the child actors, who are half the show, along with him, well, it's starting to affect the show, at least for me.

Anyone else have opinions?

Comments

not particularly useful, I'm afraid

[ndmzero.livejournal.com]

Hi.
Long time no contact.

Anyway, technically, I usually "intend" to watch Medium because I like(d) it - but Wednesday night is killing me now that Lost is back - I want to watch Friday Night Lights at 8 which conflicts with Bones; and Medium conflicts with Lost -- and last week I was out of town and forgot to add anything to my VCR taping except FNL. And this week I was rushed and since they reshowed last week's Lost somehow I forgot to tape Medium at 10 -- which might not have been a bad thing based on your comments.

Re: children -- You'd think "Joe" would be used to working with children by now, in any event.

So I haven't seen the last two weeks so can't comment.

I do plan on putting the show back in the rotation - but it sounds like it's jumping the shark.

n

Re: not particularly useful, I'm afraid

[gategrrl.livejournal.com]

I like the show...but I liked The Dead Zone, too, and that went down the tubes when the main creative producer died of cancer two years into the run of the show. I stopped watching The Dead Zone, and although I once considered buying it on DVD, I don't think I will...except the first season, which really *was* very good and a great extension of the book's premise.

But Medium...darn it, I want to continue liking it.