Medium--finale to a three-part episode
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gategrrlHuh. 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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Re: glad you liked it
Date: 2009-05-12 07:40 pm (UTC)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.
Re: glad you liked it
Date: 2009-05-12 10:10 pm (UTC)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.