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Medium--finale to a three-part episode
Huh. Never thought I'd say this, but Medium has drawn me back in, after totally turning me off with the first episode of season before this--you know, the rodent exterminator who murdered a little boy by feeding him a huge amount of rodent killing chemical? It just completely disgusted me, how they showed the detective finding the little boy's body. It was too much. I don't like it when shows over-rely on child-murder, so I'm glad Medium appears to have cut back or changed their approach to child murders.
Last night's episode was the conclusion to a 3 part episode. At the end, Alison realizes how duped she was by accepting so quickly the rich guy's job offer. But, that's part of her character, by now: she does things that are completely irrational or not thought through or overreacts (just like real people) and THEN realizes what a different course of action might have been.
I just thought that final scene with Pollan's character was weird though: if Alison had bought stuff with her SALARY then the company has no right to go to her house and take it all back. That's really fucked up and sounds beyond illegal.
Once again, one of her daughter's dreams dove-tails into her own cases. Makes me wonder if spirits have conventions in the afterlife. But after that last episode with the guy who was dead and blocking her dreams being set up on by a crowd of spirits who were prevented from being murdered...yeah, I'm starting to think that the show is beginning to think about the OTHER side's perceptions of the Dreamers (as the dead woman called Alison and the others of her kind). There's stuff going on that is being hinted at on the Living's side.
I told my husband (who's gotten back into this show, too) twenty minutes into it that the Rich Dad was as bad as his son-only had channeled that viciousness into business. The actor, and I'm spacing on his name. HOLY CRAP! He was amazing at how he hinted at his own personal violence, but you didn't see it in action when he was with his serial rapist-killer son. Talk about a chip off the old block.
And Alison's boss-the blonde woman: she was even worse than they were! Keeping to the letter of that ultra-binding contract, while leaving out information or telling other people her dreams secretly, all the while threatening Alison not to tell anyone else about her own dreams.
Those scenes where they showed the blonde boss woman lying on her "contemplation couch" with that eye mask on? Freaked me out! I was so waiting for psycho-son to walk in and murder her.
More and more, I like the oldest daughter. She's at that stage that a previous season showed Alison, when she was a teen-ager. She's not just a pretty face (and I want her hair). The other daughters, as well--they're ALL good actresses, and interesting characters in their own right. I like that the youngest daughter is starting to get her own face time, too (and the twins who play her are totally adorable).
Medium has really figured out the balance between the family, and the dreams, and the incredible number of murders the women in this family see in their dreams. I hope it can keep it up!
Last night's episode was the conclusion to a 3 part episode. At the end, Alison realizes how duped she was by accepting so quickly the rich guy's job offer. But, that's part of her character, by now: she does things that are completely irrational or not thought through or overreacts (just like real people) and THEN realizes what a different course of action might have been.
I just thought that final scene with Pollan's character was weird though: if Alison had bought stuff with her SALARY then the company has no right to go to her house and take it all back. That's really fucked up and sounds beyond illegal.
Once again, one of her daughter's dreams dove-tails into her own cases. Makes me wonder if spirits have conventions in the afterlife. But after that last episode with the guy who was dead and blocking her dreams being set up on by a crowd of spirits who were prevented from being murdered...yeah, I'm starting to think that the show is beginning to think about the OTHER side's perceptions of the Dreamers (as the dead woman called Alison and the others of her kind). There's stuff going on that is being hinted at on the Living's side.
I told my husband (who's gotten back into this show, too) twenty minutes into it that the Rich Dad was as bad as his son-only had channeled that viciousness into business. The actor, and I'm spacing on his name. HOLY CRAP! He was amazing at how he hinted at his own personal violence, but you didn't see it in action when he was with his serial rapist-killer son. Talk about a chip off the old block.
And Alison's boss-the blonde woman: she was even worse than they were! Keeping to the letter of that ultra-binding contract, while leaving out information or telling other people her dreams secretly, all the while threatening Alison not to tell anyone else about her own dreams.
Those scenes where they showed the blonde boss woman lying on her "contemplation couch" with that eye mask on? Freaked me out! I was so waiting for psycho-son to walk in and murder her.
More and more, I like the oldest daughter. She's at that stage that a previous season showed Alison, when she was a teen-ager. She's not just a pretty face (and I want her hair). The other daughters, as well--they're ALL good actresses, and interesting characters in their own right. I like that the youngest daughter is starting to get her own face time, too (and the twins who play her are totally adorable).
Medium has really figured out the balance between the family, and the dreams, and the incredible number of murders the women in this family see in their dreams. I hope it can keep it up!
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The one at the regular time slot reinforced why Joe DuBois is my TV husband. I LOVE Joe like whoa.
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The actor' name is David Morse, by the way (and I have to say, I don't think having a violent temper but successfully channelling it into a legal, if vicious but nonviolent business persona, is as bad as being a serial rapist/torturer/murderer. Not that he gets brownie points for not recognizing the basic problem early on, and first enabling his sicko son and then protecting him.. not a nice family.)
However, I had a different reaction to Alison's naivite - I'm pretty tired of it. If I recall, she was either attending or planning to attend law school back at the beginning - it's why she was interning (?) at the DA's office, I think.
- she's incredibly lacking in foresight not to have an employment contract that dropped out of the blue reviewed by a competent attorney
- I saw no evidence that she even read it herself, since everything in it seemed to be a surprise to her - the rule of not signing contracts you haven't read doesn't require a law degree
- she breached the contract; no doubt there was a clause in it stating that any breach of contract resulted in complete forfeiture of all monies/assets/ items received as a result of the money from the Lydecker corp - something she shouldn't have agreed to, but if she signed it, she is bound by the terms.
- her continuing insistence that since she's doing the "right" thing, that of course everyone is going to agree with her regardless of their own interests .... is mindboggling. Yes, she should be teaching her girls to handle their powers in a responsible way, but she should also be teaching them that not everyone in the grown up world is trustworthy and you should think things through before you jump into situations that you're not sure how to get out of. (I do agree with you that they do a good job of balancing her family and the rest of the stories.)
I didn't watch the final hour. It looked silly. I don't know if I'm going to stay interested over the hiatus. I probably will, I still like the characters - I just found Alison tiring over the last two weeks.
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Part of the reason, aside from the brutal child murders, that I stopped watching a while ago was that Alison was forever not learning from her experiences, and that the other characters kept questioning her even after she kept proving that she DID know what she saw (and the visions were often too spot on). It was almost like watching Daniel Jackson on SG1 all over again...and again...and again.
I'm hoping that they make Alison "smarter"...but I don't think that's going to happen. I think it's simply a part of her character. It is a problem with her insistence that she's doing good and right and damned be everything else--I was so HAPPY when at one point, Joe sat her down and demanded that she hold off on any action until it was daytime, and to stop putting their family through shit all over again, just after they'd gotten "over" some other recent shit.
So it does seem as if something is happening on that level.
I haven't seen every episode this season, so maybe her character flaws haven't bugged me so much for that reason.
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In actuality, the other (evil) woman's point - a 50% correct ratio in prophetic dreams is pretty darn good.
Apparently it just isn't dramatic enough to sustain the show.
On a possibly unrelated point: based on your other reader's reaction, I may have jumped the gun in deciding not to watch the last hour. Oh well - I already like Joe.
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Not a nice family at all. I do wonder what the missing eyes were about, though. I think the eyes were missing in order to make the crimes distinctive. And the son also considered shooting himself-but you knew he never would. He enjoyed getting back at the women he attacked. He was too chicken.
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Anyway - It's hard to defend a man who protects his sociopathic murderous monster of a son, I concede. I'm not defending him as a human being - I think the fact that his son slit daddy's throat pretty much is justice.
For what it's worth, though - his (David Morse's) response to the threat posed by Alison was to try and buy her off; and then to pressure her financially -- he didn't have her killed and he didn't set his son on her. His actions were ruthless but legal - it isn't clear what he would have done if Alison hadn't signed the contract, of course ....
Tracy Pollan's Character I found to be more reprehensible - she manipulated the situation and the son to cause the death of David Morse - her crime wasn't violence, it was complete amorality, imo.
I don't know about the eyes - I'm spoiled by watching Criminal Minds (about the FBI profilers) - those explanations are always provided. (BTW, if stories about child murderers bother you -- don't watch Criminal Minds. There's a lot of that and it is very difficult to watch.)
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