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If you go and take a look at the transcript for our Open Mic from this episode, you can see exactly how good it was. Brett Love, who covers Medium over on CliqueClack TV, another site I write for, and I spent the entire time guessing what was going to happen, and not getting it completely right. That’s what makes Medium fun. When it’s full of twists and turns, and just when you think you know what’s going on, they take you in a whole different direction.
Matt Prokup, who played Ariel’s boyfriend, Kyle “KC” Covington did such a great job as the earnest sweet kid who would never dream of missing curfew, much less murdering someone, that I had a difficult time believing that he killed Earl– despite the fact that Allison saw Matt outside of his house with a gun. In fact, so did everyone else, because despite the fact that she’s ALLISON FREAKIN’ DUBOIS, nobody seemed to believe that her dream was real. Poor Allison. Six years, countless cases solved, and still no one gives you the benefit of the doubt.
To Joe and Ariel’s credit, Matt wasn’t actually the killer, as Allison saw later. I realized right away that Matt’s mom was the guilty party. She came on so strong when she first met Scanlon and Allison in the school, that I figured there was no way she wasn’t mixed up in everything. What I didn’t see coming though, was what happened next.
When we see Matt sitting alone in front of the under-construction drugstore, talking about how he was murdered and buried in the cement seventeen years ago, my jaw dropped. Who saw that coming? I figured there must be some sort of explanation (I didn’t think Matt was possessed or anything like that), but I could not for the life of me come up with one on my own.
While it didn’t surprise me to find out that Matt’s mom knew Angelo Filipelli, and that he was Matt’s real father, the scene at the end where Angelo visited his newborn son in the hospital and started to tell him his entire history, was fantastic. It gave a real-world explanation for something that seemed supernatural, and that was quite interesting to me.
The B plot with Bridgette taping her neighbor was pretty cute as well. Although is it weird that I find Bridgette’s moral ambiguity so funny? It would be a nightmare as a parent, but her entire rational of, “this was funny so I decided to share it with the world,” and then failing to find anything wrong with this is kind of funny to me.
But Bridgette’s powers manifest themselves in more hilariously inappropriate ways than do her family members’. First she drew naked pictures of her teacher and helped him figure out he had cancer, and now she’s posting embarrassing videos of a neighbor and helping him find true love. Bridgette is service-y! But it’s a type of service-y that’s going to make her poor parents tear their hair out.
This is definitely one of my top episodes of the season so far, which is great, considering that the ratings were up from the past few weeks. Hopefully, this will keep those new viewers coming back for the rest of the season and beyond.
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This was one of my favorite eps of the season so far too, Kona. I was at a total loss trying to figure this one out. It’s interesting though that you mention the twists to this ep, because I’ve been watching the earlier episodes on Lifetime late night, and I was thinking recently how much more tightly constructed the earlier ones were and how straightforward the later ones have become. And then, BAM, they throw this one in the mix and surprise me. Just when I was thinking that the writing might be starting to get a little stale, they pull off something like this. Guess this show really does still have legs. Let’s just hope the ratings start to reflect it.
The B-story with Bridgette was cute. I guess that’s 12-year-old logic for you- as long as nobody gets hurt, there’s nothing wrong with it, right? My favorite part of the story was the conflict between Allison and Ariel. It’s always interesting to not only see how the girls handle their “gifts” but how Allison handles her stewardship of it for them, and teaching them how to live with it. In addition to the usual parent-child relationship struggles, they also have this added element of difficulty in the mix, and it’s fascinating to see how she handles it.
This was one of my favourite episodes from the season, how the family dynamic interlinked with Allison’s job, gift, etc.
Allison has been shown to misinterpret her dreams when it comes to the people close to her so I didn’t find Joe overly sceptical this episode.
I love how the powers of each of the Dubois daughters manifest differently. I loved the moment where Ariel, so insistant she wasn’t like her mom, only to realise she was when she had the vision.