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The 22 Season Two episodes (on six discs) contain plenty of genuinely gripping, even shocking moments, but Caron (who also wrote and directed some episodes) clearly wants to focus increasingly on Allison's personal and home life. That's a mixed blessing. Although Medium still has its share of violence and shocking moments, it has become a little more tame, as frequent scenes between squabbling daughters Ariel (Sofia Vassilieva) and Bridgette (Maria Lark), while mostly credible, tend to undermine its dramatic effect. On the other hand, the struggles of Joe DuBois (Jake Weber), Allison's husband, to hold it together when the demands of her gig or the sheer weirdness of what's in her head threaten to take over are very well done; he's become an increasingly important character, there to ground her when her emotions and her visions intertwine and conflict. Best of all are episodes in which Allison's family and work are both in play, like "Judge, Jury & Executioner," in which Joe serves as a juror on a case in which Allison is involved, or "Doctor's Orders," which finds Ariel pursued by the ghost of a serial killer from the previous season.
Of course, any TV show helmed by Caron (who created both the popular Moonlighting and the underrated Now and Again) will have its share of inspired ideas and eccentric touches (not to mention guest stars like David Carradine and co-executive producer Kelsey Grammer). Thus we have an "origin" episode ("Sweet Dreams"), a story in which Allison's dream sequence lasts for the entire first act ("Time Out of Mind"), and another ("Knowing Her") offering insight into Det. Scanlon's (David Cubitt) past. In "The Song Remains the Same" Allison is bedeviled by Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive," which she literally can't get out of head; after five or six non-stop, high volume minutes, you'll never want to hear it again. And while "Still Life 3-D" is a pretty cool idea, let's face it: those cardboard 3-D glasses (two pairs come in the box set) are still hokey as all get out. Generous bonus features include commentary on select episodes, a mini-doc about the making of Season Two, and considerably more. --Sam Graham
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 03 January, 2005 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Paramount |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Feature Film Drama, Feature Film-drama, Television |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| MPN: | D078934D |
| # OF MEDIA: | 6 |
| UPC: | 097360789348 |
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Customer Reviews of Medium - The Complete Second Season
Great Series I loved this second series as I did with the first heaps more of stuff going on in it. Keeps you watching attentively all the way through. I cannot wait until series 3 is out makes you want to watch more and more.
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Love the series, love the dreams. I thought season 2 started out slow and ended up with a major BANG! The last story was so good. The stars all got to play different roles and they did a fantastic job.
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>I have to say though that Patricia Arquette's constant whiney delivery gets old very fast. Whine, whine, whine, when she could just talk. It makes her seem weak and out of control when that's not who Allison is at all. I hope she can find another way of conveying upset.
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>The two older girls are good actors, expecially the oldest one. She's a real beauty and I'm hoping they won't sexualize her. She plays a young girl, not Britney Spears. Let her be a kid, please. The middle daughter has a strange delivery but it works. Kind of a deep Shirley Temple, facial expressions and all. My husband says she looks like Sam Kinneson! They never brush her hair. She's good though, our favorite. The youngest hasn't developed a personality yet.
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>I hope this show goes on and on. I'm even starting to get used to the husband's ways. Watch it, you'll love it!
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Consistently excellent!
Patricia Arquette stars as Allison Dubois, an otherwise ordinary wife and mother who has the ability to help solve crimes through her dreams. Over a series of nights, Allison sees more and more details about the victims, which she shares with her boss, Phoenix District Attorney Manuel Devalos, and detective Lee Scanlon.
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>On the homefront, Allison is accompanied by her laidback husband Joe, a scientist, and their three daughters, Ariel, Bridgette and Marie. The girls are far apart in age -- Ariel in junior high, Bridgette in elementary, and little Marie just a toddler -- giving room to all sorts of growing-up issues.
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>Season 2 includes some fantastic episodes, such as "Time Out of Mind," where Allison dreams she's a woman who's been placed in a mental institution in the 1950s...only to discover there really was such a woman, who claimed to have been Allison Dubois, living in the future. Additionally, both Ariel and Bridgette experience some psychic abilities of their own.
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>Although there are other shows currently on air with extraordinary heroines, "Medium" continues to stand apart. Unlike some of the others, such as "Ghost Whisperer" starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, "Medium" doesn't try to make its cast look superhuman. Dreams aside, Allison's just a busy woman juggling a career and family, and she actually can be seen picking up dry cleaning or wearing old t-shirts as she hurriedly fixes her girls a late supper.
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>Conversely, "GW"'s Melinda is perfect -- both in appearance and the way her life always goes her way -- which gets stale to the viewing audience pretty quickly. Who can possibly relate? Melinda's husband Jim has virtually no storylines of his own; his entire purpose appears to be supporting Melinda, listening to her prattle on about the cases she's working on, and maintaining the house for her as though he doesn't have a job himself. "Medium," on the other hand, is too smart to insult its viewers by presenting such an improbable universe.
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>If you haven't ever seen "Medium," I urge you to check it out immediately! You won't be disappointed.