Medium: The Seventh And Final Season

Como han dicho otros clientes, la primera temporada no está en español, pero el resto si, el mismo packaging y los mismos discos.
Todos los discos están perfectamente encajados, pero se han roto algunas pestañas que sujetan los dvd, cosa que puede haber ocurrido por el transporte y manipulación.

I love this show, but it’s flawed. The number of dangerous criminals who get conveniently killed to save the main characters from difficult decisions—this strikes me as bad writing. Having watched all 7 seasons, I’ll take a couple paragraphs to explain how this show never quite makes it to excellent, but remains.. well, medium. But first, spoiler warning:

The remainder of this review contains mild spoilers.

I’m not a person who sits here looking for goofs but this show is pretty sloppy about technical facts, math, and medicine. Off the top of my head, I don’t think there’s enough municipal $ to pull out a forensics team on every investigation. Sadly, Phoenix probably doesn’t even process half of its rape kits. And I’m not sure some of these cases would go to the DA? Also, how many of the cases that are processed by the DA’s office are overseen by the DA him/herself (rather than ADAs, who have only been mentioned at the very end of the series). But one of the writers figured out that involving the city police more often kind of fixes some implausibility, so most of the issues are minor in later seasons. Examples: I recently watched an episode where someone wanted gov’t funding and said it would come to 2 cents per person, then the resolution of the show was for gov’t to grant 60 mil in funding. US pop is not 3 billion, lol. Or the show where they talked about the drug “wet,” saying it was a powerful hallucinogen but the ingredients are, according to Medium: cigarette, formaldehyde, and alcohols. Pretty sure the hallucinogenic properties come from, idk, a hallucinogen? Again, I don’t sit here looking for errors; I’m just trying to enjoy the show. But sometimes it’s like… what did they just say???

My main issue with the show is how nice everyone is. Devalos, especially, is completely lovable and completely unrealistic as a character. I don’t think such a good person has ever made it to public office. (OTOH, Keener was great! Though she’s probably a good soul, she’s in it for $$ and revenge, which doesn’t annoy me so much. Devalos could be the second coming lbh.) Worse yet, everyone is so nice that the show writers are forced to make cringey dei-ex-machina choices; for instance, the ghost of a dead girl uses Bridgette to send an e-mail which gets a potential criminal killed before the main cast is forced to make a decision wherein there is no good choice, but the “right” choice (which they’d be compelled to make) is patently illogical. Another episode which disappointed me was the one where the Kevorkian-esque doctor, who seems ideologically high-minded and possibly very advanced, suddenly turns out to be this majorly sleazy criminal. How convenient. It would have been interesting if the show which is all about morality actually tackled a moral issue instead of circumnavigating. The niceness of the show knocks off a full star from my rating, but it also adds half a star, because I guess wholesome TV is harmless? and the staunch idealism of this show is, well, nice. In a way. Still, I almost resent Allison’s ability to deal with real-world horror and always rise above? I guess she is blessed, with her family, as the show successfully establishes. My feeling of frustration with Allison’s niceness evaporated after the AU episode where her entire family gets killed: she goes so hard and calculating, it’s magnificent, and I finally realized that she isn’t this sweet, nice person: in a way that’s a public face she always wears For Her Kids. That gave me a little shiver, and thenceforth I have been 100% team Allison-is-cool.

Some of the seasons were significantly better than others. I can’t distinguish the first three v well because I watched them slowly over months, whereas I chain-watched seasons 4-7 during holidays. Seasons 1 and 2 are okay, though very predictable. Season 3 is probably the worst, and I stopped watching the show for a few months because those episodes were written in somebody’s sleep. Season 4, I think, is when the Dubois family starts having some real issues, and it picks up a little. Joe’s character becomes a lot more plausible after he’s held hostage. Then there’s Keener, and the plots in the final seasons start to finally acquire some real nuance. Still, these gem episodes are tempered with the same kind of paint-by-numbers episodes that seem like they are supposed to surprise the viewer, but fail. And the only nuance we see in the season arcs has to do with the relative merits of Allison and Joe’s various employers. Seasons 5 and 6 are the best; I’m not a fan of S7 but unlike most reviewers I didn’t mind the final episode.

As I’ve already mentioned, I don’t think the writing of this show rises above mediocrity for more than a few episodes. I don’t know much about acting, but Arquette’s acting can sometimes fall a little short of convincing me, lol. (Though I am quite fond of watching her try.) Huston is a different story—incredible talent, and Vassilieva and Cubitt (the actors who played Scanlon and Ariel) I also found tremendously convincing as the series went on. I was pleasantly surprised at how much the show improved between seasons 3 and 5. Scanlon and DiNovi’s relationship, for me, was a real high point. Overall I found Medium frustrating, but it was endearing enough for me to watch 7 seasons: 3.5 stars, which rounds up 🙂

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La famille Dubois est tellement attachante qu’on à presque de la peine à les quitter à la fin de la septième saison.
La série tient en haleine au fil des saisons avec des intrigues toutes plus formidables les unes que les autres.
Patricia Arquette démontre encore son incroyable jeu d’actrice.
Le paranormal est évoqué avec finesse.
à voir et à revoir !

Love the whole series!!

Génial!