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nbc_mediumFriday, Nov. 20 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) - "The Future's So Bright" - When Allison develops a strange sensitivity to light, the sunglasses she wears reveal mysterious numbers which could tie into people's life expectancies. Also, Allison's dream about Joe's dad causes Joe to start taking better care of his health, on MEDIUM, on the CBS Television Network.
(Alright, LiveJournal.com has been on the fritz on my end of the line. I'm not sure if it’s happening with everyone else, but everytime I try to click on something I get a "Page Not Responding" message. So forgive me if this Episode review/rant might comes a bit late.)
Tonight's episode was exceptionally creepy and I mean creepy in the way the first season was; While they really didn't show anything, I loved how the direction of the episode was [not-so] kind enough to give the viewer a visual implication of the torture methods the murderous brothers used to get their information, particularly with the splatter of blood on the ground in Allison's dream.
That aside, I'm so glad that we were finally shown more of Mr. Dubois outside of his occasional visits to Allison. He looked so weird in his casual clothing amongst all those employees dressed in suits (it does explain his post-life wardrobe as a ghost though), presenting their concepts for solar charged vehicles or whatever. Joe's a little more like his father than previously realized, and apparently right down to the then-suspected history of heart-problems.
(There's a certain kind of irony in Mr. Dubois' meeting his end just as he going to bother to call his son about the arrival of newborn Marie.) I can easily say that Mr. Dubois effectively had me scared for Joe's life with his vague implications that Joe should get a heart check up. Every time Joe showed up on the screen, I was hoping he wouldn't keel over like his dad did from a heart-attack, all while expecting him to do so as well.
Despite his own reluctance to follow his father's advice, followed by his doctor's suggestion to take up Yoga (or something in that line of relaxing routines), I loved that Joe managed to put his pride aside and make some attempt of adopting a healthier lifestyle via Meditation. I chuckled at his "Oms", more or less because of the subtitles on my TV.
The arrival of Mitch Pileggi's character came in rather late in the episode. Aside from Bruce Gray, I was really expecting him to have a bigger role in the episode, but the fact he's Joe's boss allows me a margin of hope that he'll be a semi-reoccurring character this season. Not to mention, that he'll the first new boss of Joe that isn't a grade-A asshole.
With that said, I am really continuing to enjoy the way the writers are setting up the storylines as we go further into the season. they are really on a roll with the structure of their tales. This episode's crime-of-the-week was exceptionally unsettling, especially with the way it posed the question --- without really asking it --- of how comfortable someone could be with the knowledge of knowing when someone was going to die or how long they had left to live. Patricia really portrayed Allison's uneasiness about the entire situation beautifully, especially when she requests that Joe take her home (major awe moment right there).
It reminded me of the method used in Peter Jackson's The Frighteners in which the victims of the so-called Grim Reaper had numbers burned into their foreheads, seen only by Michael J Fox's character (sans the sunglasses). With both brothers dead and the reveal that Juan’s own guys were after him, it really made you wonder who the hell actually killed him and who would eventually kill Scanlon.
While I loved how there was no real explanation, in the beginning, for Allison's sudden sensitivity to light, I don't get why it was never fully explained why the sunglasses decided to show Allison the life-expectancy of those around her, unless it was the energy of the very dead Juan translating his awareness of how short a time he himself had to live. That's the only conclusion that makes real sense to me.
I also didn't get why Scanlon said there was no way of connecting the detective to Juan's murder either, when there were the glasses on Allison's face. I mean, forgive me if I missed something (my folks were talking over the television at times), but those glasses didn't end up in the "Lost and Found" section by themselves. The detective had to have put them in there as a way of ditching evidence, right? Which means, his finger prints were probably on there as well (if he didn't clean them for prints that is)?
While the lack of Bridgette and Marie (and absolutely no Ariel) in this episode was a disappointment [again], I loved that there was a little more Allison, Manuel and Scanlon interactivity in this episode. We really haven't seen that much of Manuel since the first three or four episodes. (The constant mention of Lynn and Leigh honestly makes me wish the writers would include those two more in the show now, but I guess Tina must've recently had her own child, hence her absence.)
What with the promo and all, I half expected to them make a really big deal out of the "Scanlon-in-mortal-danger" subplot, but they handled it in a very laid back manner. Next to Manuel, Scanlon also seems to have a very terrible track record with friends outside of Allison. They're either murderers or they end up getting murdered. I must say, though, Scanlon was looking quite Sam Worthington-esque in his boxers and T-Shirt. Trim and fit.
Overall, the reveal by Mr. Dubois that Joe's health was perfectly fine and that his entire "health scare" scheme was a plot to give his son a leg up in the competition, was actually a surprise. I'm also beginning to realize why Allison find's that dead old man irritating. Scaring me like that was so not cool.
Overall, despite its abrupt ending, this episode was very enjoyable. I guess its time for Holiday Hiatus, so I guess I'll see everyone... whenever the next new episode premieres! Laters!
(Alright, LiveJournal.com has been on the fritz on my end of the line. I'm not sure if it’s happening with everyone else, but everytime I try to click on something I get a "Page Not Responding" message. So forgive me if this Episode review/rant might comes a bit late.)
Tonight's episode was exceptionally creepy and I mean creepy in the way the first season was; While they really didn't show anything, I loved how the direction of the episode was [not-so] kind enough to give the viewer a visual implication of the torture methods the murderous brothers used to get their information, particularly with the splatter of blood on the ground in Allison's dream.
That aside, I'm so glad that we were finally shown more of Mr. Dubois outside of his occasional visits to Allison. He looked so weird in his casual clothing amongst all those employees dressed in suits (it does explain his post-life wardrobe as a ghost though), presenting their concepts for solar charged vehicles or whatever. Joe's a little more like his father than previously realized, and apparently right down to the then-suspected history of heart-problems.
(There's a certain kind of irony in Mr. Dubois' meeting his end just as he going to bother to call his son about the arrival of newborn Marie.) I can easily say that Mr. Dubois effectively had me scared for Joe's life with his vague implications that Joe should get a heart check up. Every time Joe showed up on the screen, I was hoping he wouldn't keel over like his dad did from a heart-attack, all while expecting him to do so as well.
Despite his own reluctance to follow his father's advice, followed by his doctor's suggestion to take up Yoga (or something in that line of relaxing routines), I loved that Joe managed to put his pride aside and make some attempt of adopting a healthier lifestyle via Meditation. I chuckled at his "Oms", more or less because of the subtitles on my TV.
The arrival of Mitch Pileggi's character came in rather late in the episode. Aside from Bruce Gray, I was really expecting him to have a bigger role in the episode, but the fact he's Joe's boss allows me a margin of hope that he'll be a semi-reoccurring character this season. Not to mention, that he'll the first new boss of Joe that isn't a grade-A asshole.
With that said, I am really continuing to enjoy the way the writers are setting up the storylines as we go further into the season. they are really on a roll with the structure of their tales. This episode's crime-of-the-week was exceptionally unsettling, especially with the way it posed the question --- without really asking it --- of how comfortable someone could be with the knowledge of knowing when someone was going to die or how long they had left to live. Patricia really portrayed Allison's uneasiness about the entire situation beautifully, especially when she requests that Joe take her home (major awe moment right there).
It reminded me of the method used in Peter Jackson's The Frighteners in which the victims of the so-called Grim Reaper had numbers burned into their foreheads, seen only by Michael J Fox's character (sans the sunglasses). With both brothers dead and the reveal that Juan’s own guys were after him, it really made you wonder who the hell actually killed him and who would eventually kill Scanlon.
While I loved how there was no real explanation, in the beginning, for Allison's sudden sensitivity to light, I don't get why it was never fully explained why the sunglasses decided to show Allison the life-expectancy of those around her, unless it was the energy of the very dead Juan translating his awareness of how short a time he himself had to live. That's the only conclusion that makes real sense to me.
I also didn't get why Scanlon said there was no way of connecting the detective to Juan's murder either, when there were the glasses on Allison's face. I mean, forgive me if I missed something (my folks were talking over the television at times), but those glasses didn't end up in the "Lost and Found" section by themselves. The detective had to have put them in there as a way of ditching evidence, right? Which means, his finger prints were probably on there as well (if he didn't clean them for prints that is)?
While the lack of Bridgette and Marie (and absolutely no Ariel) in this episode was a disappointment [again], I loved that there was a little more Allison, Manuel and Scanlon interactivity in this episode. We really haven't seen that much of Manuel since the first three or four episodes. (The constant mention of Lynn and Leigh honestly makes me wish the writers would include those two more in the show now, but I guess Tina must've recently had her own child, hence her absence.)
What with the promo and all, I half expected to them make a really big deal out of the "Scanlon-in-mortal-danger" subplot, but they handled it in a very laid back manner. Next to Manuel, Scanlon also seems to have a very terrible track record with friends outside of Allison. They're either murderers or they end up getting murdered. I must say, though, Scanlon was looking quite Sam Worthington-esque in his boxers and T-Shirt. Trim and fit.
Overall, the reveal by Mr. Dubois that Joe's health was perfectly fine and that his entire "health scare" scheme was a plot to give his son a leg up in the competition, was actually a surprise. I'm also beginning to realize why Allison find's that dead old man irritating. Scaring me like that was so not cool.
Overall, despite its abrupt ending, this episode was very enjoyable. I guess its time for Holiday Hiatus, so I guess I'll see everyone... whenever the next new episode premieres! Laters!
