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Been meaning to post summink about this show that I find compulsively watchable. I follow it through two-three different networks so I flit through episodes from seasons 1 and 2 in a non-linear way, and... It doesn't hurt it the slightest which, to me, is a good compliment. The emphasis on Medium is the believability of character in a very 70s movies way, you know, those kind of movies some critics pine for when the artificiality and committee-style filmmaking of today gets to them, so it's not like missing an episode of Lost or Prison Break, whose propulsive qualities (or, frustratingly, occasionally, non- in the case of the former) are due to plot machinations and as a result are kind of hollow entertainments if one scratches beneath the surface of their casts characters. Medium's not *deeper*, per se, but it operates on a different wavelength much like Allison herself, played fiercely by Arquette, a deeply flawed and determined character trying to do good to the signals fluctuating around her, while also dealing with her responsibilites to her family. I was initially on the fence re: the concept but that quickly dissipated because it's so lowkey - as compared to, say, that dreadful Love-Hewitt headliner - and that each episode is a selfcontainer, which builds subtly upon the previous, and most of them satisfyingly excellent.
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