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The dreams take a strange twist this week on 'Medium,' as Allison, Ariel, and Bridgette all have variations of the same dream. When Allison meets the subject of those dreams, things get even more bizarre.



Son of a…. They got me with the to be continued. I’m usually pretty good about noticing that, “There just isn’t enough time to wrap this up.” This time, though, I had been completely sucked in by all the new shenanigans with the dreams and didn’t even realize that a whole hour had flown by. I think we can count that as a solid episode.

Unfortunately, that means we’ll have to wait for “There Will Be Blood… Type B” before we get the answers to the mystery. That doesn’t mean there isn’t anything to talk about with “Type A” though. First and foremost, what about all those dreams?

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Detective Scanlon occasionally has a way of disappearing into the woodwork. Admittedly, the show is called Medium, and it is focused on Allison. Still, there are episodes, or sometimes stretches of episodes, where Lee just doesn’t get the time you might think he deserves after all these years. “How To Beat A Man” didn’t have that problem. It was the most Lee-centric episode we’ve seen in a long time. And that’s a good thing, even if the story was a very bad thing.

Before we get to Lee’s troubled family history, we have to talk about Allison. Perhaps I’m looking too hard. Or maybe Friday night and the end of the work week just puts me in a particularly odd TV watching frame of mind. Whatever it is, I think I got something completely unintended from the opening scene and Allison’s following visions. Looking back, the mugging was there to put Allison next to Kira, and set the dominoes a’ tumbling.

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After a week off for the telethon, Medium returned with a very dark episode that had one surprising twist, and one surprising non-twist. The surprise twist came in what was a very Medium case of the week, complete with murder, conspiracy, and some truly frightening dreams for Allison. The non-twist took advantage of all those things the show has shown us about the Dubois girls’ growing powers to completely set us up, and then leave us holding the bag. It all made for a fun night.

The story of Summer Lowry (Danielle Panabaker, Shark) was scarily dark, and well crafted. The way the story played out, the viewer was yet another in the large group of people Summer was able to fool. The big reveal that Chad (Tobias Segal) had actually killed their parents seemed like a perfect Medium set-up. We had the who, but now it came down to whether or not Allison could put the pieces together to get her man.

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Chances are that you’ve noticed the Leno/Conan shenanigans going on at NBC over the past couple days. There are a host of interesting sides to that story, but as I sat down to watch the new Medium Friday night, one stood out. As executives try to hammer out a plan for what they’re going to do with the 10PM hour when they pull Leno, you know one of them had to think, “Damn, it sure would be nice to have Medium in our back pocket for mid-season.” The decision to cancel Medium was a curious one last spring, and it’s only looking worse as the season moves along. As the NBC suits watch Heroes fail to reach 5 million viewers, Medium just keeps cruising right along, steady as ever, even on Friday night. Of course, much of that is owed to the fact that the show is still very good, as we saw with quite a twist in the 2010 premiere.

It’s funny, but halfway through “An Everlasting Love” I was sure that Joe and Keith were going to be my favorite part of the show, thanks to their awkward and fumbling friendship. The case of the week certainly started out well enough, with an interesting spin on the classic “The call is coming from inside the house” bit. But it seemed to lose a little steam once Jeremy (Pablo Schreiber) was dead. Ah, but seemed is the operative word there. For a moment, it looked like clingy-boyfriend-Jeremy was going to serve as an annoyance to Allison, more than anything else. That all changed with the big reveal when Mandy (Jess Weixler) opened the hat box. I totally didn’t see that one coming.

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I continue to be amazed by the way that not only Joe, but also Scanlon and Devalos, just dismiss Allison’s dreams on a regular basis. Have they not been paying attention for the last six years? You can, on occasion, look at that as being a little silly. But I’m going to give Joe a pass on it for one simple reason. I take it as confirmation that he is the eternal optimist. Somewhere in the back of his mind he knows, “Oh crap.” But for whatever reason, he just chooses to dismiss it. Especially where family is concerned. There’s something very likable about that quality, as silly as it is.

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If ever there were a show that was suited to having a Halloween themed episode, it’s The Munsters. But then, not far after that on the list, it’s Medium. Allison’s abilities bring their own spooky vibe to every episode, and it really does dovetail nicely with this time of year. The Medium team really went all out with “Bite Me”, doing a really convincing job of inserting Allison into George Romero’s zombie-classic, Night Of The Living Dead. As if solving a murder wasn’t a hard enough gig, try doing that while battling zombies all night.

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I’m torn with this week’s Medium episode, “The Medium Is The Message.” On the one hand, it was a very interesting serial killer case that brought Scanlon back into the fold. In addition, it also played right into our worries about what the effects of the coma will be on Allison. On the other hand, they gave away the killer way too early. Elsewhere, Joe’s job hunt finally pays off with what most of us would consider the best job ever. Joe, however, needs some adjustments.

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The Medium writers have toyed with the idea of the Dubois girls and their connection to the supernatural before, but never quite like this. In the past the story has always revolved around more of a what if, or what will be, question. Here, there was danger, by the bucketful. Ariel, as you can gather from the picture, had gone a little bit darkside. And that served to ratchet up the tension for Allison all the more.

If I had to put it in a nutshell, I’d say “Who’s That Girl?” was a bit hit and miss. By the time we got to the end, with the showdown between Allison and Elena, it was two thumbs up, to be sure. But getting there … it was a little rocky. Starting with the biggest of the rocks, what was up with the history of murder opening? Yeah, you never know who people really are. And seemingly good people do some horrific things. But couldn’t that bit be run at the beginning of every episode of Medium ever? It just felt completely off, and the episode worked just fine without it even being there.

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