Medium ongoing thread

Keith I · 01-04-2005, 05:06 PM

Did anyone else watch the premiere last night? Seeing the previews and promos to make sure we know it's based on a real person, I thought it might be another cash-in on the psychic or profiler stories.

In a way it is and it has to find its ground but it was entertaining. Patricia Arquette is cast well as a law intern who "sees" deceased people, can see the future, and read minds. (Tru Calling? The Sixth Sense?) She isn't tough as nails, but she can be as seen with the Texas Ranger, and doesn't have the perfect family life. Her interactions with her husband and children show that she's like many other families struggling to succeed.

The stories were interesting and I liked the way it ended. The titles at the beginning were a bit eyeball-roll-inducing, again to pound away that Allison is a real person. I'll give it a chance hoping that it will get stronger.

http://www.nbc.com/Medium/ (it has a good description of this episode; turn down your volume)

Next episode: Thursday, Jan. 6 (in ER's timeslot).
3rd episode: Back to Mondays starting Jan. 10.

Glenn Gordon Caron (Moonlighting, Now and Again): Creator and Executive Producer
Kelsey Grammer: Co-Executive Producer

Joseph S · 01-04-2005, 05:23 PM

It wasn't bad. Will probably watch when available. I seriously thought we were going to see Chuck Norris as she landed in TX with how long it took to show us the trucks. Thankfully, he wasn't there.

MikeFR · 01-04-2005, 06:28 PM

I was wondering if someone would post something about this show. I was sceptical, but the show was entertaining and I'll probably be checking out the next few episodes.

I hope they play down the 'true story' aspect.

Don Peskin · 01-05-2005, 07:06 AM

I'll be watching even though it probably won't be on long. I'm still ticked off at NBC for getting rid of Dark Skies so quickly.

Jason Seaver · 01-05-2005, 02:32 PM

Ugh. I'll probably give it one more episode next week, since I believe Rene Echevarria will be running the show with Caron and he's pretty good, but what a waste of a lot of great production values on such a thoroughly stupid idea.

I mean, just beyond my being skeptical over the whole medium thing, anyway, what is her ability? Talking to dead people, "sensing" random information, seeing the future, what? How do you make the stories anything less than arbitrary with all she can do if the story demands it? How many different ways are we going to see Miguel Sandoval repeat what the Texas Ranger said about not being able to get a search warrant based on Alison's visions?

It's too bad, because this does seem to be pretty well-made; I'd just like to think the talented people involved could do something more worthy of them.

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larry mac · 01-06-2005, 10:46 PM

They did not show a new episode tonight as promised. Instead, we got a rerun of the pilot.

Very disappointing! lm

Keith I · 01-07-2005, 01:12 AM

Yeah! It started 15 minutes ago here and even the on-screen guide describes the 2nd episode (including several online TV guides).

David Williams · 01-07-2005, 04:35 AM

Apparently the ratings were so boffo that NBC decided to reshow the pilot and save the precious new episode for next week. Which is good in my case since I didn't get around to watching my Tivo'd copy of the pilot until tonight after when the second episode would have aired.

Overall, a good pilot but not great. Definitely has room to wow.

chuck_b · 01-07-2005, 09:19 AM

Tuned in to see the new episode and was also disappointed by the repeat. Missed some of the premier Monday so watched again anyway. That first show really needed more time as it felt really fast tracked in the last 10 minutes.

Good show with some promise, but I found theTexas Ranger actor the most compelling and interesting character in the show - and he's only a one episode guest.

Jay Taylor · 01-08-2005, 11:40 AM

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I hope they play down the 'true story' aspect.