Watching
NBC has this new show "Medium" about a psychic helping the police bring criminals to justice. Or "find" criminals or crimes or basically help with anything she has a dream or "feeling" about. I love the way the show is made because the episodes she sees are shown as they happen and the viewer is sort of stuck in the mystery the same way "the medium" is. I'm not much of a crime show watcher at all. I am not interested in CSI or Alias or whatever is all the rage now, but this show... is just so intriguing. Surprisingly though it's not just for the above described reasons, but for the relationship shown between the medium, who is a mother of a three and her husband. Inbetween the crime story episodes you see the two of them going through the daily stress of driving the kids to school, trying to remember who is picking up who, organizing birthday parties, dealing with school problems... all the while they are being really committed to each other and the family without the usual movie drama, not the excessive negative nor the excessive positive drama.
I have to admit I recognize myself in many of the scenes. I wonder who created that part of the story, because the timing and dynamics of the interaction of the spouses are just so accurate. Many times in movies, drama is created to serve the already mapped out progression of the story, but here it seems, the goal is just to recreate the reality of two people loving each other on a daily, non-eventful basis. They fight and they apologize and it's not a big deal and they can be honest and not, but there is the underlying constant of them knowing each other and things always end up right, not because they are "ah just so perfect for each other!" but because they are making a conscious effort. I like it. I'm surprised Hollywood can be so normal.
Posted at 12:04 PM on February 16, 2005
I watched this show for the first time last night. While I don't have a feel for the characters after just one show - I liked what I saw. And there was a happy ending. Thanks for the review.
Karla