Medium Episode

A regular crime thriller has an ending that can be guessed easily but a crime thriller mixed with a touch of occultism is something which is completely fresh in concept. The TV show "Medium" dares to blend crime and parapsychology to astonish the viewers in a unique way. This show is a production of the CBS.

The storyline is like this - Allison DuBois is a woman with three children. Her husband Joe is an aerospace engineer. Allison is also studying law. Apart from these very common and natural things in the lady's life there is something very extraordinary. This woman is gifted from her very childhood. She has an inborn power to communicate with dead people. She can visualize the future in her dreams and can read other people's minds. With the passing of days Allison's unique ability makes her feel many strange incidents. At first she is intimidated and thinks that she has some kind of mental problem. Desperately she seeks help and support from her husband. But her husband Joe, gradually realizes that the dreams, his wife is talking about might just not be of any kind of normal nightmares. She must have some kind of uncanny link with the dreams. Allison mostly sees dead people in her dreams. After some stray incidents it can be seen that Allison is working in the district attorney's office as an assistant. But he r nature of work is of a strange manner. She helps to solve cases with the assistance from the dead people. The incidents that come into her dreams are horrific and complicated. The problem here is that the law cannot press charges to any individual on the basis of someone else's dream. Allison's task is to look back into the incidents and provide the police with good evidences to make necessary arrests and moreover ample hard core proof to the prosecutors to charge the guilty in the court of law.

The show steals the hearts of the viewers by not only with the subject matter but also with the convincing performances by the characters played by various artists. Patricia Arquett plays the lead Allison DuBois and her husband Joe's character is performed by Jake Weber. Lee Scanlon is an efficient detective who helps Allison solving the mysterious cases. This role is done by David Cubitt. The character of Allison's boss the district attorney is casted by Miguel Sandoval. Sofia Vassilieva and Maria Lark play the two eldest children of Allison and Joe named Ariel and Bridgett respectively.

The comfort in watching Medium is that, one episode contains a full story which starts and ends completely. The DuBois family is very similar to any other family with a common household and kids in it. In this aspect everyone can identify their own family with it. Joe and Allison share a great comfort level where Joe listens to his wife's experiences with rapt attention and talks with her mainly about her dreams and the dead people. Both the actors have a terrific on-screen chemistry.

Crime thriller and supernatural occurrences go side by side in the show where the viewers can enjoy the taste of two different platforms in one place.

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