So, this is our thank-you blog post to and about
Medium, and in an effort to be detailed and specific in our gratitude, we've made a list of what we appreciate about
Medium.
Long story short,
Medium should never have gotten semi-canceled because no one talked about it! We can't change the past, but in hopes of providing
Medium with a more secure future, here goes:
Dear
Medium,
Thank you for the following highlights from your fine television program:
- Everything Joe DuBois ever said or did. Joe is without question oneof the outstanding husbands and fathers to ever grace television.
- Jake Weber. *THUD*
- All of the moments when the series dared to show Joe and Allison asa genuine and largely happy married couple. They just keep beingtogether, loving each other and supporting each other and theirdaughters. The writers and actors have created a truly admirableportrait of modern marriage against a media landscape that doesn'totherwise necessarily admire fidelity and commitment.
- The girls, Ariel (Sofia Vassilieva), Bridgette (Maria Lark) and now baby Marie (Madison and Miranda Carabello),who started finally started talking this season ("I am pea pod and I amin the vegetable family."). Love the sisters' rivalry and theirinheritance of the family psychic business. For example, Marie cuttingpaper dolls out of the newspaper stock listings and naming them aftersoon-to-be-profitable companies. Too adorable!
- Everything that ever happened with Ryan Hurst as Allison's brother Lucky, Arliss Howard as Texas Ranger Capt. Push, Anjelica Huston as Cynthia Keener, Kurtwood Smith as Agent Cooper, and Mark Sheppard as Dr. Charles Walker
- Scanlon (David Cubitt) and Allison's platonic romance
- Allison and Devalos' (Miguel Sandoval) friendship and reflexive trust
- Any time the dream turns out not to be Allison's
- Allison's ever-changing hair, her mom arms and her general cuteness
- That episode where the poor dead kid ends up packaged as a life-size doll. OK, maybe that's not a favorite memory, but it certainly was just plain memorable.
- In the same memorable but not necessarily cherished vein, the arc with Devalos' dead daughter
- That time Allison went to go tell the girl that in 10 years shewould meet a "good Samaritan" in the desert and that Samaritan wasactually going to kill her. (Memory fails: Wasn't he supposed to havered shoelaces or red hair or some key physical trait?) That scene in aschool hallway, as seemingly crazy Allison convinced the girl to listenand then take a leap of faith and trust her, well, that was simplyremarkable.
- Any time Allison has a beer
- Allison as Little Red Riding Hood
- The 3-D episode
- The killer cartoon monkeys episode
- The "I Married a Mind Reader" retro TV show episode
- The iPod episode
- Almost every ghost possession episode, including Natasha Gregson Wagner in the asylum in the '50s and most recently Jeffrey Tambor, who needs a guest-star Emmy, STAT. He absolutely nailed Patricia Arquette's Allison (although not literally, of course).
- [Your suggestion goes here]
Thanks for the memories, Medium; we'll see you on CBS in the fall.
Sincerely,
Your loyal fans
Don't forget to watch
Medium's final NBC episode this Monday at 10 p.m
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