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Maureen at The Watcher compares Medium, Boston Legal, and CSI:Miami. Here’s the Medium excerpt:
Speaking of celebration, Wednesday’s worthy Valentine’s Day episode of “Medium” proves, once again, that the NBC show is not really a supernatural thriller. It’s a romance, and a quietly satisfying one at that.
It’s a measure of “Medium’s” unflashy inventiveness that it can partly re-use a story line from last season and get away with it. In last season’s finale, psychic Allison DuBois (Patricia Arquette) imagined what her life would have been like had she not married her patient husband, Joe, and not had three girls.
In Wednesday’s episode, Allison wakes up in her own bed but with someone else inhabiting her body. Yes, it’s that old sci-fi TV staple, the body-switch episode, but it’s done with some pretty creative twists on Wednesday’s “Medium.”
It’d be giving away too much to say how the story ends, but it ends, as it often does, with Joe and Allison in a scene that’s almost impossibly tender. “Medium” is really the story of this compelling couple, and though Arquette does a excellent job of playing a woman who’s entirely unlike Allison, let’s pause a moment here to praise the work of Jake Weber, who plays Joe.
He has a brief moment at the end of the show where he wordlessly makes Joe’s feelings for Allison almost physically palpable. And that portrayal of deeply felt love is about as far from the likes of the dreadful “Ghost Whisperer” as one is likely to get. (Full article)
And don’t forget to watch for the Open Mic Night post that goes up later this afternoon!
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Yea! Finally some love for “Medium” in the media! I got my TV Guide for next week and there are actually 2 mentions of “Medium” this week! Maybe our emails to the TV Guide folks have paid off???????
Thanks for posting that, Sheila. That was great. I guess you’ve proven me wrong once again. I was firmly convinced, given the lack of attention that this great show gets from the media, that every journalist in America(other than yourself) is brain-dead. I’ll be going now since I have to decide how I’m going to prepare the generous helping of crow I now have to eat.
Yes, it was nice to actually read positive comments about Medium. I really liked that article. Thanks for posting it.
can anyone tell me the singer and title of the song that was played throughout the episode tonight “the one behind the wheel”?
The song is “Like a Star” by Corinne Bailey Rae
Thnks!