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Medium - The Complete Second Season

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This is "Medium" --- The Complete Second Season, featuring 22 episodes of this amazing NBC series with performances by Emmy-award winning Patricia Arquette.


This DVD includes some excellent bonus features. The bonus features are as follows:


Commentaries --- For several episodes, featuring both crew and cast. These commentaries are insightful and entertaining and will definitely help you to understand certain aspects of the show better. It's too bad they couldn't do commentary for "Death Takes a Holiday" and "Twice Upon a Time," but I suspect they were still wrapping work on those eps while this DVD set was being created.

The Story of "Medium" Season 2 - Highlights of the season from beginning to end. Discusses how things changed between season one and two, some of the highest-quality episodes, and more.

"Medium" in Another Dimension --- Discusses the 3-D episode of the show, "Still Life." This is pretty interesting and has some insightful thoughts, but a lot of it is already covered in the commentary for that episode.

A Day in the Life of the Dubois Daughters --- Discusses the actresses that play the daughters of the show, as well as the characters themselves. Includes their school studies, how they prepare for the show and anecdotes and praise from other cast and crew.

The Museum of Television and Radio - Q&A with Cast and Creative Team --- Discusses the writing process for the show.

Gag Reel --- A fun gag reel, including mess-ups as well as joke scenes.


If you're a fan of "Medium," or any good drama or science-fiction series, you can't afford to pass this up.

Just to let you know that Medium's got a lot of success in France too. Season 1 and season 2 have been broadcasted altogether from November 2005 to July 2006 with very good audience rate.
The main reasons for this success are pretty much the same everywhere I guess: very good cast lead by the unique Patricia Arquette who can make you laugh and cry from one minute to the other, supernatural atmosphere, suspense and of course, this more than real family life that makes you feel like you're spying on your neighbors apart from the fact that this family is far better than your neighbors, they're funny, loving and moving just like we wish we could all be.
Now I'm just looking forward to discover season 3!!!

Much better than most of today's contemporary TV programs, this series has depth of character and it does not lose momentum through the first season.

The first DVD contains the conclusion to the cliffhangers from the first season. Some of the characters in the pilot to make it into the regular episodes. This package even has a fun though maybe distracting to some 3-D. I got out my glasses and ooohd and aaahd.

Great formula as Allison Dubois (Patricia Arquette) who has a gift since childhood of talking to the dead and getting physique vibes. She diagnoses or misdiagnoses crime scenes for a local district attorneys office. As her child puts it she is a "guesser." Natural they are the skeptics with negative attitudes to overcome and obscure mental images to be interpreted. She must also do this while balancing housework, kids, and a husband that can be snot at times. There is usually a quirky twist in the end of each episode.

Bottom line is that you can get hooked on the series and will feel cheated when you run out of episodes. It is interesting that they spread the abilities around in the family instead of keeping just to Allison.

I purchase Medium because I was curious. I fall asleep too early to see the series on TV. I started watching and I couldn't stop. While based on an actual Medium I am sure the writters have a great time with the subject but it has a hint of realism. My daughter a grandson agreed to watch the first disk and ended up staying up until the wee morning hours. Beware... it is very addictive.

After the first time I watched Medium I couldn't stop! I really enjoyed it. I've seen many other shows and movies that Patricia
Arquette has done like in Tales From The Crypt which i've always liked but I think that I have found me a new television show I like now and i'm looking forward to getting the first season for my 14th birthday on August 11 and season 2 around Halloween.

I recommend this show to boys{like myself} and girls who love television shows!

THANK-YOU creators and the stars of Medium for making this show a real-live hit!!!

Emmy winner Patricia Arquette returns in the second season of Medium. For everyone who enjoyed season 1 and has yet to see season 2, be prepared to love the show even more. This seasons blows the first out of the water.

I thought I would give a detailed episode by episdoe score. 1-10 with 10 being the best, and while it doesn't look like I gave out high scores all that often, a high score from me is like a 8 because I'm pretty stingy. The eps that scored lower generally didn't involve Arquette as much.

"When push comes to shove Part 2" 5
"The song remains the same" 8
"Time out of mind" 8.5
"Light sleeper" 6
"Sweet dreams" 7
"Dead aim" 6.5
"Judge, Jury and Executioner" 7
"Too close to call" 7
"Still life 3d" 7.5
"The reckoning" 8
"Method to his madness" 8.5
"Doctors orders" 8
"Raising Cain" 8
"A changed man" 6
"Sweet child of mine" 8.5
"Allison Wonderland" 8
"Lucky in love" 7
"SOS" 8
"Knowing her" 5.5
"The darkness is light enough" 6.5
"Death takes a policy" 8
"Twice upon a time" 9

I thought this was a fantastic season. I loved season one as well, but this was even better. Patricia Arquette is so underrated despite her controversial (I dont think it was) Emmy win last year. The show is nothing without her. The episodes I gave high scores to she gives great performances in.

Every scene with Arquette and Jake Weber is a joy to watch, and I think her children are some of the best child actors I've ever seen. This season has a 3D episode and the box set comes with 3D glasses. They do a good job with it, and they also have the same episode in 2D.

The highlights of the season are "The song remains the same" which has the best opening dream sequence this shows had IMO, "Method to his madness" which has Allison become the killer they are searching for, "Death takes a policy" which features Kelsey Grammar, and the best ep of the season, the season finale "Twice upon a time" where Allison dreams of her life had she not become a medium.

Season 2 of "Medium" held up the high standard set in the shorter first season. Patricia Arquette, Jake Weber, Maria Lark, Sophia Vassilieva do excellent jobs involving us in the fairly commonplace dynamics of the family's home life. This is the center that grounds the series. Added to that is the psychic ability of Allison Du Bois to see the dead and see the future. The crime element as she works with Miguel Sandoval as District Attorney Devalos and David Cubitt as Detective Lee Scanlon make for a riveting series with amazing consistency. In Season 2, David Cubitt's contributions become more thoroughly impressive as his wit and humor come to the fore. Jake Weber also displays dry wit and exceptional comic timing. Maria Lark's delightful mugs continue to charm as the young Bridget. (I want to see Norah Jones' video of "Sunrise" in which Lark appears.)

Episodes that I enjoy re-watching repeatedly include "Lucky In Love" where Allison's brother Michael falls in love with a ghost. "Judge, Jury & Executioner" is exceptionally well written as Allison tries to help the D.A. figure out how a ghost -- a man whose execution they witnessed -- could have committed a murder AFTER he died! Purely for its ambitiousness, "Still Life" that presents a 3-D format is groundbreaking, unlike anything else attempted on TV.

The special features are interesting as we learn much of the backstage dynamics that go into producing the series. This is currently my favorite TV series. While I am riveted to Season 3, I am delighted to have Seasons 2 & 1 on DVD! Bravo!

[Note: On my Disc 6, "The Darkness Is Light Enough" will not play. Instead it goes into the season closer "Twice Upon A Time," which also plays when I press the button for that selection. I don't know if anyone else has experienced anything similar. -- Maybe it's time for a new DVD player!]

You have to be on her wavelength, and I am. She sees and hears people at the foot of her bed and in her dreams. I hear them outside my bedroom windows... I really need my sleep folks! Seriously, this is really well done, entertaining, I love the kids and the husband. And every episode keeps you interested. The writers are great! I have Season Two also, and it is very well done as well. Keep up the good work!

Patricia Arquette stars as Allison Dubois, an otherwise ordinary wife and mother who has the ability to help solve crimes through her dreams. Over a series of nights, Allison sees more and more details about the victims, which she shares with her boss, Phoenix District Attorney Manuel Devalos, and detective Lee Scanlon.

On the homefront, Allison is accompanied by her laidback husband Joe, a scientist, and their three daughters, Ariel, Bridgette and Marie. The girls are far apart in age -- Ariel in junior high, Bridgette in elementary, and little Marie just a toddler -- giving room to all sorts of growing-up issues.

Season 2 includes some fantastic episodes, such as "Time Out of Mind," where Allison dreams she's a woman who's been placed in a mental institution in the 1950s...only to discover there really was such a woman, who claimed to have been Allison Dubois, living in the future. Additionally, both Ariel and Bridgette experience some psychic abilities of their own.

Although there are other shows currently on air with extraordinary heroines, "Medium" continues to stand apart. Unlike some of the others, such as "Ghost Whisperer" starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, "Medium" doesn't try to make its cast look superhuman. Dreams aside, Allison's just a busy woman juggling a career and family, and she actually can be seen picking up dry cleaning or wearing old t-shirts as she hurriedly fixes her girls a late supper.

Conversely, "GW"'s Melinda is perfect -- both in appearance and the way her life always goes her way -- which gets stale to the viewing audience pretty quickly. Who can possibly relate? Melinda's husband Jim has virtually no storylines of his own; his entire purpose appears to be supporting Melinda, listening to her prattle on about the cases she's working on, and maintaining the house for her as though he doesn't have a job himself. "Medium," on the other hand, is too smart to insult its viewers by presenting such an improbable universe.

If you haven't ever seen "Medium," I urge you to check it out immediately! You won't be disappointed.

Having bought season 1, I was really keen to get my hands on season 2. And it does not disappoint. A six DVD set, this is crammed full of great episodes, a 3D extra episode and some extras like commentary and documentaries.

Again Patricia Arquette does not disappoint. The supporting cast are excellent as usual. Following on from season 1, the stories are more complex and the final episode of this season is a corker. Why can't TV execs here in the UK commission shows like this? The US always does this kind of thing much, much better. Shown on the BBC it's dumped on late night/early morning which is a disgrace. Give it primetime!

I would highly recommend this. I got it for under £30 and it's been my best DVD buy by a country mile for some time.