D is for DuBois
D is for quite a few things in the world of Medium.
Death strolls into Medium in season two episode 21’s Death Takes a Policy as the sophisticated and talented Kelsey Grammer. He completely freaks poor Allison out, since she thinks he has come to tell her that her time is up.
Devalos, played by Miguel Sandoval, is the D.A. every city dreams of having - a well balanced man who fights to stop crime and injustice even if it could be a politically bad move.
Lynn DiNovi plays a recurring role as the deputy mayor. Deputy Doll may not be a fan favorite, but she does provide an occasional sympathetic ear for Lee Scanlon, our favorite detective.
No show is complete without a Dog. Unfortunately, the poor pooch on Medium isn’t around very long. In season two’s Sweet Child O’ Mine, Bridgette adopts a stray dog who turns out to be ill.
However, I think everyone will agree that the DuBois family is the most important Medium related “D” . These characters act so much like a real family that we can’t help getting hooked on the show!
Do you have any words (besides delicious leading men, of course…) to add to the list?
Credit: NBC Universal Photo: Andrew Eccles
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6 opinions for D is for DuBois
Betty
Sep 16, 2008 at 8:24 am
Don’t forget one of the MOST important “D’s”, D for David Cubitt who is Scanlon and D for David Arquette, guest director!
Dawn
Sep 16, 2008 at 9:28 am
How about “Delicious” for that “Dishy” Jake Weber?!! :D
Rachel
Sep 16, 2008 at 5:44 pm
Dedicated, for all concerned; dedicated mom and dad and family, dedicated DA, dedicated detective, and even the dedicated villians! But of course, the dedicated ghosts/spirits who visit Allison looking for closure or justice or both.
(Betty, glad to see you online! How was the hurricane experience? I’m guessing you’re doing okay? All my best that you are!)
Betty
Sep 17, 2008 at 1:07 pm
Hey Rachel! Thanks for thinking of me. We were very fortunate. I lost lots of branches on my big oak trees and a pecan tree, but house is fine. My daughter’s apartment is fine. My son’s house is fine - part of his fence is down, then a tree fell on it, then another tree fell on the other part of fence, but missed the house - house is fine. He is STILL without power since 2 AM Saturday morning which makes it every difficult with a 10 month old. Very uncomfortable through Sunday with no A/C or fan. My daughter’s power was on when she went home Sunday, but went off Sunday evening and didn’t come back on until Tuesday about 1 AM. My son had to drive 80 miles yesterday to get gas and ice. The few stations that are opened in his area have lines that are about 2 to 3 hours and no one has ice there. The few restaurants that are up and running have lines around the block with people waiting to get in. He had to be back at work Monday at 6 AM, so there’s no time to be in line for hours to get gas or lunch. These things are only inconveniences. Hundreds, maybe thousands of folks in areas such as Galveston, Crystal, Beach, West Beach, Bolivar, Gilchrist, San Leon, Tiki Island, Bayou Vista, Hitchcock, Dickinson, etc. and many more have had their homes and livelyhoods wiped off the map - literally - there is nothing left standing. One of the reporters likened the area to the aftermath of the tsunami. In the coastal area, many houses are on stilts or pilons (sp), in some instances the stilts are the only things left and in others, even the stilts or pilons are gone. Cyrstal Beach and Gilchrist are about 80% destroyed and what’s left there is maybe 1% that is habitable. Some folks don’t have sewer or water service on top of no electricity. Many of the homes and businesses that were left standing had 6 to 14 feet of water and mud and slime in them. Even before the storm made landfall, the water level had risen so high that downtown Galveston had 6 feet of water in the businesses. The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston is closed for the 4th time in over 100 years - the building is very strong and sustained no substantial damage, however, the basement had about 8 feet of water in it as well as the first floor of the hospital. It will be closed at least one to two months - thousands of patients depend on that hospital for care and it is a Level One Trauma Center as well. In some places there is only a pile of rubble left behind. On the sea wall in Galveston (an 18 foot tall structure built to protect the island after the great hurricane of 1900 killed 6,000 people) there are piles of debris - in some places, homes have been moved inland 1 mile and dropped in the middle of a street on Bolivar! Dead horses, cattle, and fish are littered over the area. On Cyrstal Beach, there was a limo wrapped about a pole and a lot of cars have been deposited into the Gulf of Mexico. The Balinese Room - anyone who’s ever been to Galveston would know this structure - is gone. The former Ocean Grill that jutted out from the Sea Wall into the Gulf and was just made into a Hooters a few months back (I’m not sad about losing a Hooters, but I was very sad at the demise of the Ocean Grill) is gone completely - no trace of it at all. The Flagship Hotel that also extends from the Sea Wall over the Gulf has a huge hole in it’s side and the driveway has been wiped away. Just after the storm, boats and possessions were strewn along I 45 just before the causeway from at least a 10-14 foot storm surge that swept through the area. Businesses have been wiped off the map as well, or are closed since Galveston island is closed while the infrastructure is repaired and clean up takes place. Pray for those folks who lost their homes and jobs and loved ones. There are reports that about 500 people stayed behind on Bolivar Peninsula, some chose to stay, others were trapped when the ferries stopped running and the water rose too fast and covered the roads well before the storm made landfall, (where virtually everything has been destroyed) yet no bodies have been found yet, so they may have been washed out into the Gulf with the tide. The National Guard is going door to door at any structures that are left standing or partially intact looking for people who need to be rescued or who didn’t make it. Lots of folks here need your prayers. Pray for patience as they deal with terribly uncomfortable conditions. Pray also for the thousands of repair crews who are out working around the clock to restore services. Pray for the first responders who are out working despite the fact their homes have been destroyed as well. We are so blessed to have had this wonderful cool front come in that has made dealing with no electricity a little less uncomfortable! Thanks for your good thoughts and prayers and please keep praying!
Rachel
Sep 17, 2008 at 6:33 pm
Betty, my memories of that area are mostly of Corpus Christi; only been to Galveston as a kid and Houston as a teenager. But, all the same, indeed all my best wishes and prayers to those dealing with the aftermath of such a horrific experience! I’m so happy you and your family are okay! Woo-hoo!
Betty
Sep 18, 2008 at 12:38 pm
Thanks Rachel. I’ve actually never been to Corpus Christi myself, that just seems so absurd to live so close and not go. The storm was actually headed to Corpus originally or perhaps between it and Brownsville, but changed course.
Can you believe that over 3 million people are still without power? They released zip code estimates of when power might be restored yesterday and unfortunately my son’s zip is in the category of “severe damage - sometime AFTER September 22″ like in October! At least he has his home intact.
One of the news channels did something really nice yesterday. They are not allowing people back on Galveston island unless they have “official business” there. One of the weathermen from Channel 2 has a home there, so he went in the helicopter and called people who’d been frustrated they could not get in to see if they still had a house, and asked them where their house was and they flew over the area and got the description and were able to show them (if they had access to a TV) their home and even circled it to see damage on all sides. Since he had a home there, he was very familiar with where he was and the folks were so very grateful. What a terrific thing to do!
I still don’t understand what possess newspeople to thrust a microphone in someone’s face and ask, “What does it feel like to see all this damage?” One did this to a woman who had NOTHING left except debris. WHAT do they expect them to say? “Never liked the house in the first place, now I get to do it the way I always wanted it done?” Or, “Gosh, I’m so glad my house is completely obliterated because it would have been a real bummer to clean all the muck out and remove all the sheet rock from my storm surge damaged house.” Morons!
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