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[fan_eunice]

I have spent the last week falling obsessively face first into watching Medium. I'm up to the fourth season right now, and suspect I will be finished with all of it by next week if the inability to stop at 'just one more episode' continues. Clearly, given my getting sucked into Ghost Whisperer awhile back, I have been in need of woman sees the dead type stories and as entertained as I was by that romp in the genre, Medium is kicking that button way harder right now.

I think it's the blood splatter. I'm a sucker for police procedurals, and as much as I love a good cry there's a point at which I overload on sentimentality. Medium gives me a main female lead, ghost stories, AND crime scenes with completely unrealistic forensics and police work followed by equally nonsensical trials and legal mumbo jumbo. It's like they know me.

I am also more than a little in love with the three daughters and the inherited gift storylines weaving through. The whole concept of what the heck do you do when not only do you see horrible things, but your kids do too because you passed it on to them. I like (like seems like an awful word to use here, but you get my meaning) that this hasn't gone unexplored or dodged by only giving them benign visions. We're told Allison has lived with this all her life, so giving it to her daughters as well drives home what that means and what they go through, plus how Allison handles it is a good window into that experience. Also, strong mother and daughter relationships, yay!

So, yeah, that's what I'm doing with my time right now.

Comments

[klia]

I loved Medium, and thought it was one of the more creative series I'd ever seen. Those kids and their relationships with each other and their parents were some of the most real-seeming I've ever seen, too. There were scenes at the dinner table that, I swear, I heard the same conversation between my nieces and nephews and their parents. Which was really cool.

I loved Lee (he and Allison had such great chemistry) and Manny, and Joe was a pretty cool husband. And, OMG, I adored Captain Push. <3

I don't want to spoil anything, but I'll just tell you flat out: if I could go back, I wouldn't watch the series finale.

[fan_eunice]

Captain Push is the very definition of adorable <3 <3 <3

And yes, OMG. I am fairly certain a scene from the family table is playing out downstairs between my niece and nephew RIGHT NOW, heh as it did between my brothers and myself when we were kids, and if I'd not had an only child would've been the dinner table for my kid too.

And I love that Allison and Joe don't always get along and snipe at each other or have petty arguments and they don't *mean* anything other than that two people who've been married that long sometimes get on each others nerves and have dumb arguments about cereal.

[phoenix64]

I watched Medium early on for the first two or three seasons; I think what really appealed to me was how they portray her and her family. It seems rare to find a show that's not about family and relationships and whatnot to feature a not dysfunctional family so largely in a character's life. It's what I really liked about The Mummy Returns (despite its other problems): they're married with a child and they're STILL action heroes!

I find it interesting that this appeals to me even though they're not people I can identify with, since I don't have kids or much of a family (created or otherwise). I just still think it's nice to see that part of life portrayed positively in those kinds of scenarios.

[fan_eunice]

Yes, yes! The family is a big draw because they are pretty darn realistic as a family unit if you set aside the whole most of them are psychic thing. Which, even then...if a normal family did have psychic visions I imagine it would be pretty true to how that would play out :D

[elynross]

I loved Medium, barring some issues with the last season. I love everything you list, plus the family, particularly the married couple aspect. They felt real, and while Joe has a hard time dealing with some of the crazier shit, for the most part he's there, and he believes her, and they don't do that stuff they do so often on other crime shows where the spouse is a jerk or a putz about their spouse's occupation. And they fight, and make up, and support each other, and love their kids, and. Yeah, I kind of miss Medium.

I've been pondering going the other direction and giving Ghost Whisperer another try. *g* I made it in a few eps when it first aired, but it didn't stick.