Did anyone get a chance to watch “Medium” last night (Monday)? If so, what did you think?
I really liked it, but I was just curious as to other’s opinions.
I liked it. I didn’t really expect to, but it wasn’t that bad. Is there a set time for it to be on? It’s better than CSI:Caruso but it’s also being shown this Thursday.
I think the Thursday airing is to build the audience (and in lieu of an ER rerun) – the promo said “and then next Monday in its usual time.”
I missed the first five or ten minutes, but liked what I saw. I loved the “tell him you know about the kiss” thing. I think it has real potential as a show I’d watch regularly.
I’m not sure how much I like Patricia Arquette, but I liked the husband (where do I know him from???). I liked very much the premise of the show though. I had goosebumps through most of it. It made me think about things…
i was waiting with great hope for its arrival. me loooves the eerie stuff like X-Files, Millennium et al. (i should have reversed the italics and underlines, shouldn’t i? :o )
yep, another happy customer here. the writing seemed fairly witty, the character has human swings of emotion regarding her situation, she’s got a brain as well as her “something extra”. here’s hoping for many more of the same.
at least it has a fighting chance – it’s not on Fox. (Fox = death to all creative or thought-provoking series.)
I was looking forward to this show but I was totally let down. I mean, WTF, a hurricane (named Allison, no less) in El Paso?
And whats with making the Texas Rangers look like a whole posse of Festuses?
There is some writer out there that needs a serious kick in the balls.
The first few minutes she was having a dream about the same guy she was interviewing at the very end. He told the same story about coming home in the dark and finding his wife, but then said something about what would happen if he gutted her (meaning Allison) from her neck to her pelvis. The she woke up and had that conversation with her husband that we saw in the previews about being alright, and then saying it again to all the people at the end of the bed.
I agree with UncleRojelio. The writing needs a little help. Would the Rangers have flown her out there and then had that whole posse lined up there in the field and yelled information at her about a sensitive case as she stood in the the plane’s stairway? That just seemed stupid.
More likely, one detective would have come to her, or they would have talked to her in the police station.
Having said that, I did like it. I’ll watch it again.
And while I’m at it, we do have weather radars here in Texas. We usually get a few days worth of warning when a hurricane approaches. Maybe that is where the writers of the the show and I are disconnecting. I guess noone expects a hurricane in El Paso so everyone was caught off guard.
I guess no one expects the Spanish Inquisition either.
I also didn’t like the thunder, both before and during the hurricane. That seemed like sloppy writing or fact-checking. “Oooh, it’s a storm! We need thunder sound effects!”
I don’t know about Texas, but here in the Mid-Atlantic, it doesn’t thunder during hurricanes.
I came in to say the same thing. Maybe she’ll start to grow on me though. I hope that she goes back to the other psychic to learn more about her gift (although she doesn’t seem to need much help). Since it seems that each episode will build on the next, maybe she’ll get a chance to tie up the loose ends from the first case.
Thanks for the summary, BiblioCat. I knew I was missing some of the setup. For instance, I didn’t realize she had kids till the scene of her talking on the phone to her husband, who was sitting in the kids’ room on a bunkbed.
According to a story in yesterday’s Arizona Republic, the main character is based on a real woman who lives here in Phoenix. (Sorry, but I couldn’t get the link to copy and paste.)
Alas, I thought it was crap.
It’s based upon the first book by Allison Dubois, who is indeed (obviously) a real person. Her website is a little fluffy and John Edwards-ish, but if you can overlook that, you might find it interesting.
As for me…although her husband was a decent character, it didn’t save the show from being entirely too self-absorbed and with a whininess factor of eleventy hundred.
I’ll sit and wait for my old standby, 24, to return on Sunday. 
I liked it and will check it out again. The Texas Rangers did seem like cartoon characters to me, but the show did keep my interest and I liked that there was a decent amount of humor in the show. And any show is better than CSI:Caurso.
Oh crap, I didn’t realize it was on last night! Is the Thursday show a repeat of the pilot?
The only reason I’m interested in catching this is because of the ‘guy who plays the husband’ – Jake Weber, whom I’ve admired (and lusted for) ever since he played Dr. Matt Crower on the late lamented American Gothic. He’s a wonderfully subtle actor.
To answer phall0106’s question, in addition to AG, he was in the HBO series Mind of the Married Man (utter dreck), and the films Dawn of the Dead, Wendigo, U-571, Meet Joe Black, and several more.
I’m glad to see his role mentioned positively in this thread! When I saw that he’s playing “the husband,” I feared that it’d be a stereotypical ‘unsupportive husband who doubts/downplays his wife’s supernatural abilities and is thus a bad guy’ type of thing.
Naw, instead he plays a doormat.