Season finales make me wistful The third part of a trilogy bringing Neve Campbell and Jason Priestley to the Dubois roost wrapped the season up nicely I love when everything comes together and there are no loose ends This show while not quite as fantastic as last weeks still held its own especially when you consider Allisons special talents and the risks she had to take to solve the murder of her friendenemy PD MacColl Everyone got a spot in this show Manny Scanlon and Lynn Scanlon finally got some good scenes as well and he and Lynn are back together Those two are very on again off again Perhaps next season they might even have a subplot of their ownJoe had another decent story line losing his job because of Allisons newly exposed abilities yet still loving his wife at the end of the day What a guy Clone him please Manuel lost his job as well but since Allison had his back Im sure it was only temporary Best Line PDDebra
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Thanks for cutting me some slack getting the Medium blog up Now without further ado I give youOne of the best openings Ive seen on this show One of the best shows this season I still have goosebumpsOne creepily believable performance from Neve Campbell as sneaky underhanded reporter PD MacCollOther great titles for this show would have been Life Needs Your Attention or Stop the Murderer Stop the Murder Where have I heard something like that before Any Heroes fans out there Save the Cheerleader Save the World ring any bellsSo this being May sweeps the folks over at Medium really tried to pack a lot in There was more humor than normal a film noir short and Howie Mandel himself Plus by putting Phoenixs great DA Manuel Devalos on the auction block weve got the perfect setting for a real cliffhanger with next weeks showTo start Joes meeting with his father was hysterical The entire conversati
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Head Games
Season 3, Episode 19
Neve Campbell begins a three-show guest appearance as Allison's friend. Here, Allison helps put away a man (Jason Priestley) accused of murdering his wife. But Allison is mightily puzzled when dreams about the crime continue to haunt her. Meanwhile, the trauma of a past workplace hostage crisis continues to plague Joe.
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Patricia and Jake came on before the show started to talk about the previous show and to offer their condolences for the victims and families of the Virginia Tech killings last week It was a nice touch and something I wished they hadnt needed to do The opening scene with Allison on her sleigh bed in a snowstorm was utterly reminiscent of the movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind I loved that movie so it made me very excited to see this show however hard it was to watch So when Allison found out there was a missing girl after she had spent the night shivering in bed with Joe I thought Ill bet shes lost somewhere very cold and frozen I pick these things up so quicklyWell cold and frozen as in a freezerJoe went back to work after the terrible hostage crisis with Adam Goldbergs character and found he was unable to cope He thought he was fine but he was still grieving and probably a little bit in denial He spent most of the episode lash
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The show opened with a scene from Debbie Does Dallas a movie about cheerleaders Actually its a much deeper story than that Get it OK its nearly 1 am here in the smokey little hamlet of Los Angeles and Im knackered a new word I learned from my friend upon her return from merry olde England So try to just laugh at my jokes out of kindness if nothing else This show marked the return of Allisons TV brother Michael and her real live brother David Arquette who directed the ep Ryan Hurst played Michael and I always like when hes around because hes a great character and you never know what will happen when your siblings appear out of nowhere Another reason I loved this ep Cindy Pickett Yes she does look a lot like Markie Post remember Night Court I have loved Cindy since way back when she was on Guiding Light in the mid 50s OK not really that far back but a long time ago Most people know her as Ferris Bueller14
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This was a completely riveting show I was literally on the edge of my seat I am still having heart palpitationsThe show starred the fantastic Adam Goldberg who was incredibly intense in the role of Bruce a dying man who has lost his job and finds he has few options to protect his family once he is gone Dazed and Confused wasnt the first thing I saw Adam Goldberg in but it was the movie that I think of whenever I see him Besides The Hebrew Hammer which was hysterical to say the least Adam is a gifted comedic actor so it was really satisfying to see him in Medium playing a very unfunny character The show opened with Allison speaking of dread and its many manifestations My favorite lines from that wereDread gnaws at youDread is worrying about something you cant do anything about Ive had that horrifying feeling and it is not something you can easily shake This is going to be an intense show Double dream opening Al has a dream
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Within seconds of Medium starting I had two nearly opposing thoughts Is that really Mimi Kennedy and Are we about to be subjected to the small-screen version of The Exorcism of Emily Rose Luckily it was Mimi I always loved her on Dharma and Greg as Dharmas wacky hippie mother And not for nothing but The Exorcism of Emily Rose was pretty good I watched it last year after I started blogging Dexter since Jennifer Carpenter who played Dexters sister Debbie starred as Emily Rose in the movie Another fantastic effort from the writers who apparently were feeling that a little twist was in order I knew something was awry when Alison and Devalos went to talk to the very attractive woman who was supposedly Colleens therapist She was a little too Katherine Heigl to be a psychiatrist I thought that Michael was married to Mimi Kennedy even after the blonde bombshell doctor showed up It wasnt until Allison went to the hospital to bring
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Ooh that was such a good Medium We get to finally hear the story of how Allison and Joe met Ariel is nonplussed that their chance meeting happened at a place called Fat Bobbys But the truth of the matter was that their paths had crossed three years earlier at a science fair Thats not as uncommon as one might think When I dated my first boyfriend he took me to a concert where the guy I dated after him was playing in the headlining band I didnt meet boyfriend No 2 that night but had taken a picture of the band and when we started going out many years later I found that picture and just couldnt believe the coincidence Bridge gets excited thinking about how they might have met years early and she could really be 11 But of course we all know had Al and Joe met three years early and gotten pregnant they would have had an entirely different set of children And we love Ariel Bridgette and little MariePeri Gilpin of Frasier fame showed up as young
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Eric Stoltz makes a stunning guest re-appearance as the creepy Creepsville serial killer Sonny Troyer He and Allison share the same dreams about the girls he is going to murder and it gets a little scarier when he takes her out of the dream world and makes her the subject of his dreamsReally telling lines 149 Allison to the Department of Homeland Security Id rather not talk about how I know a plane is going to crash 10 days before it happens This is not going to work in her favor149 Allison on Allison Osama Ben Allison149 Sonny Troyer to Allison How are your dreams Allison Dubois If that wasnt creepy as all get out well then I dont know what is149 The dead-girl-in-Phoenixs roommate to the SWAT team I know Im not supposed to smoke on the roof Dont shoot me149 How dead is he149 Real dead Thoughts and admissions149 They dare to doub
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It took me several minutes to realize that the guy in the glasses was Joe at which point I thought Oh my god Joe looks so old and beleaguered Marie is sick and dying It was a good thing Allison woke up What a horrible dream to open up on I hate the dreams that are so sad you burst into tears as soon as you wake up or worse when you wake up already crying This was a much more somber show than last weeks But once we got going this one turned out to be a little predictable since I figured it out kind of easily and I never figure these things out But again I like how the two stories intertwined until everything was revealed I love that the steamy hot Scanlon had his own story line And when the deputy mayor said she would stay and be there for him I knew he was dreaming Scanlon at an AA meeting did we know he was an addict Wasnt he drinking wine with his lady friend at the restaurant when he was going to give her his key It was also g
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Preferred alternative title This Is Not from a BottleAllison is not herself and is speaking French Her name is Sandra What Once again the writers have outdone themselves They had a fantastic premise in which the soul of a dead person inhabiting Allisons matronly body to turn it into a sexy trash-talking gym-suit-wearing one Some fantastic lines in this episode included the following charmers with Allison-as-Sandra to Joe Turn around this isnt cableNice wardrobe Who does your styling Homer SimpsonNow thems just fighting words little Miss Whosey-Whatsit We all love Joes blue boxers She even has the nerve to refer to our lord and savior Joe as he who may wipe the bottom but may not be written hence All the while Bridge is having a breakdown only later do we find out We are completely out of toilet paper in here Once again the reference to bottoms in need of wiping Lots of potty jokes tonightIn
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Or as this episode is otherwise known as Alive and Tearing It Up Tonight starred our favorite Texas Ranger Captain Push the incomparable Arliss Howard who is married to Debra Winger as the dreamer Listening unofficially I just liked the way that sounded And I loved the way Push said Tell 145em you dreamt itHappiness and puppies abound as we get a whole new side plot with the fabulous Maria Lark Bridgette has learned 150 street names for heroin She rattles off a litany of names for the drug H big daddy rainbow dust and even Bart Simpson then goes on to discuss the aliases of marijuana Shes concerned when her father knows the word spliff but he tells her he learned all about drugs at the same kind of drug assembly she had just attended Then he assures her he would never use them although by his tone he learned about drugs while using a few Being her mothers daughter Bridgette is looking though Dadd
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Very Creepy Maggie would have been more appropriate if you ask me God I love this show Just when theres nothing much going on all of a sudden Bam Medium steps it up with a new show full of twists and turns and surprises The whole doll beginnings were just fantastic although Joe was not looking too sexy in his new body He was looking like the exorcist with his head turned sideways Even Allison mentioned that if she took off his doll clothes there would be a smooth little nub where your boy parts are supposed to be I was frankly quite shocked and surprised to hear her say that Especially as a doll But no matter I laughed I found myself laughing out loud during this ep But well get to that This show was a bit on the disturbing side for my taste Im not generally a fan of shows about child abuse but I thought it was handled quite well That kid Oliver was so mature for a 6 year old What I found most distressing is that his father r
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The music in the beginning of tonights show is fantastic Romping fun An older man runs through the streets of the city shoeless and in his underwear Hes trying to escape his crazy knife-wielding wife It was perfect music for the scene The return of Bridgette Yippee Bridgette has a school project to do after reading the comics which are only in color on SundaysJoe gave the best line No diorama drama Runners-up Joe He rebuffed you Allison He rebuffed meMorgan Im dead why shouldnt I be ZenAnd when I die and when Im dead and gone David Clayton-Thomas singing a Laura Nyro tune The use of music in this show has moved to a whole 145nudder levelOne of the things I really like about Medium is how things reveal themselves They always start with a basic story and you think you know whats going on Then slowly each layer gets pulled back and a new piece of the drama comes to light and shakes everythin
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Our Medium has to find out how the death of a well-respected assemblyman and a young boy stuck in a deep well are connected And I believe the Rolling Stones can help I loved that the Stones spoke to Allison It was like God and the burning bush speaking to Moses Please allow me to introduce myself A little Sympathy for the Devil can go a long way The screaming of the boy in the well sent shivers both up and down my spine I got terrifying goosebumps Allison dreams about the boy Jimmy again and runs to the desert to try to help him She finds him in one of the many holes in the ground near the train tracks How is she going to get this boy out of there Oh right the magic of cell phones plus she has an in with the DAs office This is all rather hopeful until of course the rescuers only find the skeleton of the boy rather than the boy himself It was great to see Ruth Williamson as the wife of a man who may have practiced autoerotic asph
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After a dress-shop owner and her daughter are murdered, Allison and Ariel have disturbing dreams about the crime---but their visions have differing viewpoints that pin the crime on two separate suspects.
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Id have preferred the title Hunches and Instincts myselfEdward Cooper otherwise known as 145Red on That 70s Show and Kurtwood Smith in real life plays a character a little bit like Dexter the vigilante serial killer on Showtime Hes just not nearly as lovable I knew there was something a little creepy about him when he first appeared in this ep talking at the press conference about a serial killer There was a lot of talk about undergarments tonight My sister Wendy who lives on the East Coast called me two-and-a-half hours before I would get to see the episode and told me I had to say something about Joes boxers She said and I quote He looks fabulous in those blue boxers She may have said more but it is unprintable Theres no denying that Joe is hot and sexy and probably 145considered long after the show ends each week Then there was the serial killer who liked to strangle his young female victims with their o
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The Bloggah has a cold and needs to go to bed But for you my devoted readers I have fought sneezes and chills to remain awake long enough to watch and blog our favorite show MediumA shooter from an overpass has killed a woman on the highway and has terrified the entire city Joes birthday has arrived and there are no presents at breakfast because Allison has not gone shopping yet Luckily the gift she gets for Joe was really meant for herself She buys him what she will come to find is a pre-owned video camera and comes with a ginormous discount The camera beckons to her Seeing things in the video camera is a nice new twist on Allisons dream visions and a good way to let her get some uninterrupted sleep The non-film in the camera relates the story of two young people Kathy a local girl who works at the country club and Travis a recently retired sharpshooter from the army as they plan to kill her husband The ghost in the machine is Travis mak
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When Allison's archenemy---a ghostly serial killer from the 1800s named Dr. Charles Walker (Mark Sheppard)---begins haunting her dreams again, Allison worries that he'll return to Earth to continue his murderous rampage. Her fears are soon validated when she chances upon a young man who bears a striking resemblance to the doctor.
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It's a nightmarish “Groundhog Day” of sorts for Allison when she relives the same ominous day over and over again via her dreams. But the repetitive daily loop begins to reveal significant details about a looming hostage crisis. Elsewhere, Joe pines for more affection from Allison, and Ariel runs afoul of a school bully.
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I am thrilled to be bringing you the new Medium blog I have loved Allison DuBois the character since she graced us with her presence two seasons ago Medium gets better with age Its smart its clever its funny when you dont expect it to be and everyone is pretty likable Even when theyre being grumpy theyre likable because they seem like such real people or at least like people we all would like to be The third season premiere a two-hour extravaganza included Patricia Arquettes real-life husband Thomas Jane in a touching role as Clay Bicks her high-school boyfriendWhen Clay Bicks showed up at the DuBois house and told Alison that she was the one he always thought of I just about lost it And that was in the first few minutes of the show And that he hung around wanting to be near her We know in the end it was to help her find the killer but it was sad and heartbreaking to watch Seeing Joe get really jealous was a nic
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