# Medium **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 4, 2005, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medium/283023 "2005-01-04T14:02:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![phall0106](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phall0106/32/5934_2.png) [@phall0106](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phall0106)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medium/283023/1 "2005-01-04T14:02:09Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medium/283023/2 "2005-01-04T14:17:22Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medium/283023/3 "2005-01-04T14:27:56Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![phall0106](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phall0106/32/5934_2.png) [@phall0106](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phall0106)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medium/283023/4 "2005-01-04T14:38:05Z")
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… ---
**Author:** ![lachesis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@lachesis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lachesis)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medium/283023/5 "2005-01-04T14:43:13Z")
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.) ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medium/283023/6 "2005-01-04T14:58:16Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medium/283023/7 "2005-01-04T15:20:57Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > I missed the first five or ten minutes, but liked what I saw. 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. ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medium/283023/8 "2005-01-04T15:39:46Z")
> [@UncleRojelio](#): > > 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 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. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medium/283023/9 "2005-01-04T15:50:10Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Omega\_Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7c8e57/32.png) [@Omega\_Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omega_Glory)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medium/283023/10 "2005-01-04T16:01:08Z")
> [@phall0106](#): > > I’m not sure how much I like Patricia Arquette, 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. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medium/283023/11 "2005-01-04T16:02:29Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medium/283023/12 "2005-01-04T16:09:32Z")
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.) ---
**Author:** ![Insomniactress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/91b2a8/32.png) [@Insomniactress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Insomniactress)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medium/283023/13 "2005-01-04T16:14:05Z")
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. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![slu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@slu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slu)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medium/283023/14 "2005-01-04T16:14:27Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![choie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/choie/32/7829_2.png) [@choie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choie)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medium/283023/15 "2005-01-04T21:02:48Z")
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](http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0916617/). 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. ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medium/283023/16 "2005-01-04T21:15:33Z")
> [@choie](#): > > 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.