It's not a coincidence that
Medium represents not only Glen Gordon Caron's
best TV work since Moonlighting but also his
most successful siege on the Nielsen ratings since the
1980s heyday of the latter show. In an interview
included in this five-disc set (which contain all 16
episodes from the first season, in addition to
bountiful bonus features), the
writer-director-producer confides that the series was
partly inspired by films like Something Wild
and Married to the Mob, in which director
Jonathan Demme achieved a balance of what Caron calls
"the serious and the frivolous." Medium also
contains elements of Moonlighting and another
Caron creation,1999's underrated Now and Again;
there are echoes of The Sentinel and The
Dead Zone as well, not to mention a hefty dose of
The Sixth Sense.
Season Two of NBC-TV's hit
series Medium finds the show gradually
evolving, and while the changes aren't all for the
better, the combination of star Patricia Arquette,
creator-executive producer Glen Gordon Caron, and the
other contributors still makes for entertaining
viewing. As Allison DuBois, whose skills as both a
medium and psychic make her indispensable to Phoenix
district attorney Manuel Devalos (Miguel Sandoval),
Arquette, a 2005 Emmy winner, is still at center
stage.
Having weathered a slight
sophomore slump, creator-executive producer Glen
Gordon Caron's Medium returns to DVD with this
six-disc collection of all 21 episodes from its third
and arguably best season. As ever, Patricia Arquette's
lead performance as Allison DuBois, the medium/psychic
whose visions of murderers, serial killers, and such
make her an indispensable (and, in this season,
controversial) part of the Phoenix district attorney's
office, leads the way.
Medium: The Complete Fifth Season
Allison Dubois (Patricia Arquette) is
a strong-willed, devoted young wife and mother of
three girls, who has gradually come to grips with
her extraordinary ability to talk to dead people,
see the future in her dreams and read people's
thoughts. This season, Allison and her family's
world is turned upside down after her abilities are
publicly exposed, resulting in sweeping changes both
professionally and personally.
