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Rating: - Another Guilty Pleasure--Hooked On It Every Week
I wish Amazon would give us half stars because I really want to give this a 4.5. I can't go as high as a 5 because I do have a few quibbles with it.

The premise of this show is based on real life psychic Alison Dubois, who advises police departments in the USA on crimes. Alison is played by Patricia Arquette. This is another instance of where a first rate film actress or actor has shifted to tv. Every time this occurs, the show is a hit. This rarely used to happen in the past. Arquette is the number one reason this show works. She does an excellent job playing Allison. Ironically, Arquette's film roles were not of an almost matronly suburban housewife with three children. No, her roles were of the woman who drove men crazy. This shows how terrific an actress she is.

When Allison is dealing with the ghosts, spirits, dreams and such, the show is red hot. It is 5 stars all the way. It is even becoming 5 stars with her daughters as they are now seeing the same as they have inherited her ability.

Where the whole thing gets iffier and gets knocked down in grade is in the ordinary characters. I LIKE her husband Joe, her boss, Manuel the D.A., and Detective Scanlon but they are weaker than the characters with psychic talent and those who guest each week as the ones Allison is able to touch with her ability. These three characters turn the show into more of an ordinary story and we need to remain instead in the suspension of disbelief needed by a paranormal based show. I wouldn't eliminate these characters. Joe the husband would especially be a big loss. There must be a way, however, of defusing their effect of pulling us into almost a parallel show going on.

There was a British show called AFTERLIFE which was also based on the Dubois character. This one did not make any mistakes and made it to all 5 stars. If you can find that show, it is extraordinary.

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