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Welcome to Open Mic Night at Medium Dreams!
Each Wednesday we open up the comments so you can talk amongst yourselves before, during, and after the show. You know comments are always open on a blog, though, right? Open Mic Night is more about everyone being here at the same time and having one place to comment so it is more like a live chat. If you have not been to Open Mic Night before, welcome. If you have, welcome back.
This week is a rerun of Mother’s Little Helper, where Allison and Ariel stumble upon the bodies of a mother and daughter who were murdered in the back of their dress shop. Yikes.
The post goes up at noon PST. I will check in periodically during the afternoon and arrive for the duration around 7:00pm. But who needs me? Yak at will.
See you later!
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Even though this is a repeat, I will be watching! How about that virtual food and snacks again this week?
I’ll bring another pitcher of margaritas – on the rocks and frozen, with or without salt – your choice. Remember! You must be 21 to partake of the adult beverages and remember to have a designated driver if you will be leaving home afterwards.
Tonight’s episode offers another original approach by the writers to change things up a bit.
Not a lot of Scanlon in tonight’s ep – boo hoo – but at least he’s in it.
Brownies anyone? Dawn, how about some more chips and salsa – always good with the margaritas.
More nasty thunderboomers here today, hope the signal holds out tonight – well if it doesn’t, I’ll just take out my tape and pop it in.
I’m headed home now so should be back in an hour. I think chips and red pepper jelly over cream cheese are in order. Yum!
Betty: I’m in. I’ve got pineapple salsa and tortilla chips. Can you make an Arizona Roadrunner? I promise I’m 21 and I’m not driving. I’ll be watching from home and going to bed after. Oh, I’ll have mine frozen, with salt, please.
I love this ep. It’s one of my favorites of the season. Can’t wait to see it again.
Sheila: I like your idea too. Although I prefer green pepper jelly and Ritz crackers. But I love both. I thought that was just a southern thing. I’ve never seen it in other parts of the country.
Are you really a Southern girl? Come on, now, tell the truth.
Dawn: My sis turned me onto pepper jelly and cream cheese. I have no idea where she got because none of us were born in the South. I was born in Canada, actually. Go figure. What’s an Arizona Roadrunner?
I mean, besides the bird.
Just as I suspected. Nobody is coming because it is a rerun. I did wonder. Does that mean I can go to bed early tonight?
I’m here, just not much to say with it being a rerun. Was thinking about dropping by some chicken quesadillas, I love those with margaritas.
Oooh, quesadiyyahs. I love them. I love pretty much anything with cheese, actually. Heh. Cheers!
Sheila: Don’t get discouraged. I’m here. Just a little late. Got busy playing on my computer and almost forgot about it.
An Arizona Roadrunner is a KILLER margarita. I mean that, seriously. I discovered it at this little Mexican restaurant near the border in Arizona called Tosh’s. It is WICKED GOOD! But it is so strong that you have to prove you have a designated driver before they’ll serve it to you. And the food at that place ain’t bad, either.
Have you tried pepper jelly and cream cheese with crackers? I’ve never tried it with chips.
Ritz is actually my preferred method for getting cream cheese into my system. Much better than chips. Chips are for salsa at Chevy’s or eating with a sandwich. Hm. Now I’m hungry again.
Sheila: That’s my favorite way to eat it too. Ooh, you like Chevy’s too. You’re my kind of people.
I like to go on a night when the balloon guy is there. Does your Chevy’s have a balloon guy? He once made an interconnected balloon hat for our entire table of seven. We had to walk out in a square to keep the giant hat on. Good times.
Ooh, I forgot this was the Carrie episode!
Yeah, that was a killer opening. I loved that.
Sheila: They actually don’t have one where I live now. Maybe the next place I go will have one. You’re right. That is good times.
Sheila: Did you happen to see the Nielsen ratings for last week? Medium jumped up from number 52 three weeks ago, to 51 two weeks ago, to number 35 last week? Maybe that means things are turning around. You think?
It’s certainly a good sign Dawn, but you have to consider that part of that came about because so many shows went into repeats after sweeps ended. So the competition was much less.
I have no idea what Chevy’s is, but I’m a fan of clam dip and regular Lay’s potato chips.
As to this episode, I like it. It’s fun seeing Ariel get more to do.
Hey, kewl! I hope that bodes well for renewal.
Good point, Brett. But I’m going to keep my head buried in the sand and pretend it means that Medium will get renewed. I hope that when the new eps come back on, that the numbers continue to go up, or at least stay where they are without falling. Then we can be pretty sure of a renewal. JMO.
Brett, you have never heard of Chevy’s Fresh Tex Mex restaurants? Great salsa and fresh, thin chips. And their shrimp fajitas. And flauta appetizer. And margaritas.
When do they decide the whole fall renewal thing, anyway?
I love how Wayne the sketch artist pops up every season.
I’ve never heard of Chevy’s Fresh Tex Mex. Is that a south-west thing?
We’ll find out the fate of most of the shows in May. I think Medium’s chances for renewal are good. While the show isn’t a top 20 hit, it is pretty consistant, and it has won awards, which never hurts.
Hey! Yet another thing I forgot: this is the scene (the kitchen, putting away the board game) I saw them rehearse the day I visited the set!
Okay, marking my calendar for May to find out which shows get the dreaded axe.
Patricia was wearing that blue outfit with the white trim they just showed her wearing in bed. Hm. I didn’t notice that the first time I saw this episode. Interesting. They rehearse in the wardrobe they are going to shoot in but don’t put on makeup until right before the actual shoot. (They headed up to makeup after our meet-and-greet, where Jake Weber excused himself saying, “I’ve got to go put on my man makeup now.” Heh.)
Sheila: I am so jealous that you actually got to visit the Medium set. I would kill or die to get to do that.
Brett: Chevy’s isn’t southwest. It’s just a franchise. The first one I ever went to was in Georgia. But it’s great. And I think you’re right about Medium’s chances for renewal. At least I hope so.
I know. Medium-set-visit-dropping. Shameless.
Hey, don’t feel bad. At least we can live it vicariously through you.
That Wyatt sure is a cutie. Has he been in anything else, I wonder?
Over already? ::sigh:: Alrightie. I plan to keep up the Open Mic Night on Wednesdays, even on rerun weeks. What do you guys think?
That was a great episode. And next week we get that creepy FBI profiler episode. And one of my favorite eps, Be Kind, Rewind, is coming on Lifetime this Saturday night. I can’t wait to see that one again.
I love Medium. Even in reruns. And Open Mic Night is always good, even on rerun weeks.
Okay, next week it is: same Bat time, same Bat channel.
Be there or be square.
Please keep it going Sheila!
Never heard of Chevy’s. I live in Texas – the ONLY place to get authentic Tex-Mex food!Papasita’s has by far the BEST chips you will ever eat – thin and the flavor is just so hard to describe, it’s almost as good as eating something sweet.
Never heard of an Arizona Roadrunner – but hey, you can always just add some more Cuervo Gold Tequila with a little Triple Sec – don’t forget the fresh lime juice – did I mention I have a lime tree?
The BEST place to get Mexican food is often at some little hole in the wall place.
Be forwarned about watching Medium on Liftetime, I discovered after watching Four Dreams – thanks to Dawn for sending me a tape of the show as it originally aired on NBC – that AT LEAST 4 scenes were cut from Four Dreams. Those are the ones I noticed right off – could be more as I started counting commercials last Saturday and they seemed to run at least 15 min of commercials during the 1st half hour of the show! There were ten, count them, ten commercials during one break, and at least eight during another.