Medium Liveblogging: Pilot (MED-001)
Episode Name: Pilot
Episode Number: 001 (1.01)
MED-001 Summary | All Episodes
I love DVD’s! I can liveblog without all those pesky commercials. (Is it still “liveblogging” if I’m not doing it “live” while the show is on TV and you are watching it with me? Hm…you tell me.) So here we go. #1 in a series of 38 episodes (16 in Season 1, 22 in Season 2). This is the extended version, with extra scenes not shown on the original TV broadcast. On your mark. Get set. BLOG!
“There really is an Allison.”
“Really…”
Allison sits at a table in a dark room, lit by a bright light. She asks the man across from her to describe how he found his wife’s body.
He seems gentle, bewildered, very absent-minded-professor-ish with his balding pate surrounded by a ring of frizzy hair.
Man: I saw a shape lying on the floor. I turned the light on and saw the blood. I was standing in the blood.
Allison apologizes for making him remember, for making him tell the story again.
Hey, the guy has reached out and is stroking the inside of Allison’s palm.
Man: If I took my blade and ran it from the bottom of your neck to the top of your crotch, the way the blood would slowly seep out and cover your white skin, it would be quite a sight.
Euw! He is Creeping. Me. Out!
Allison sits bolt upright in bed, gasping.
As she well should! Her husband Joe asks what’s going on and Allison replies it was just a dream.
Joe: Was I in it? Were we naked? Answer the second question first.
Classic! I am going to love watching this relationship, I can see that already.
Then a different male voice from the foot of the bed says, “Are you sure you’re okay?”
Huh? Who the heck is that and what is he doing in their bedroom?
Allison is annoyed and tells the large group of people gathered at the foot of her bed, “I said I’m okay.”
Joe, thinking she is talking to him: Okay.
Group: Okay
TOO funny! I don’t think I would enjoy having a group of otherworldly guides hanging out in my bedroom all the time. MUCH too crowded.
The next morning, Joe pumps Allison for details of her dream and notes them down on a pad of paper.
Um, why? Oh who cares! Let’s just enjoy looking at Joe, shall we?
Jump to Allison at work. Yikes! She is reviewing crime scene photos with blood, blood, blood. Then she sees what really happened like a little black and white movie in her head.
I thought mediums just talked to dead people. Hm.
Cut to Allison presenting a review of the case to the D.A. and his minions.
Annoying lawyer woman is being difficult. Why is she questioning Allison’s analysis? Doesn’t she know Allison’s a psychic?? Oh wait, nobody knows. Oops.
D.A. to Allison later in private: What the hell are you doing? You’re an intern. Your job is to organize the crime scene photos and walk us through them, not provide theories.
Well!
Allison in the bubble bath with Joe quizing her from a law book.
Allison: I see the truth. It’s like a friggin’ television show.
Joe: Dreams are dreams. Everybody dreams.
Allison: Does everybody see dead people standing around their bed?
Aha! Background discovery: Joe is a rocket scientist.
Joe decides to send her crazy dreams to law enforcement agencies all over the country. When they don’t hear back from them they will know Allison is meant to finish law school. Great plan!
The next day, Allison receives her test scores, which are awesome, and decides she wants to go to Boston U. Joe says, what the hell? He can get an aerospace job near Boston.
Uh, who’s the old guy with the stogie and the golf club over in the corner of the kitchen, please? Joe’s dead father? Saying they won’t be going to Boston. Niiice.
Annoying D.A. minion woman Belinda makes Allison give her a ride to a crazy psychic, all the while calling Allison “Andrea.”
I love the actress playing the crazy psychic! (Margo Martindale)
Balinda the annoying lawyer is patronizing and really getting on my nerves. I have decided to hate her. Oh good, she’s going outside to make a call.
Psychic woman tells Allison: You see the dead. They come visit you. … Even among the special you’re special. They’re telling me you’re the best. They’re telling me they’ve been speaking to you since you were a little girl.
Denial from Allison (it ain’t just a river in Egypt).
Allison arrives home with pizza as the kids play in the front yard sprinklers. Hm…why the long face, Joe?
Texas Rangers called and want to see Allison.
Twin engine prop plane. Ugh. I’ve been in those and they are not fun. Hey! The Texas Ranger lady is the show creator’s girlfriend in real life. (I think.)
Oh my, they do know how to put on a spectacle in Texas, don’t they? All those big gas guzzler SUV’s lined up in a row with their lights all a’blinkin’.
Captain Kenneth Push, Texas Ranger. Now why is he yelling across the field when he could simply walk over to the plane? He sends a minion over with a piece of paper, yet he remains a-way over there a million miles away.
He describes the case of a 17 year old male who they suspect abducted a 6 year old male for his “personal sexual gratification.” Blech.
When asked if she is following him so far, Allison replies, “I speak English, and you do a passable job yourself.”
Ha!
So how does Allison know the perp’s name when they never released it to the media because he is a minor?
When she tell him he replies, “Your dream?” Captain Push is not amused.
Nice hat, dude. I’m not crazy about Allison’s hair. I like her better with bangs and a short ‘do.
Captain Push calls her “a soothsayer, a fortune teller, a mystical prognosticator”…wow, those are mighty big words, cap’n.
Oh great, he’s testing her. He’ll take her to a bunch of crime scenes, only one of which will be real.
#1: Sex was had here, but that’s about it.
#2: House on a hill. Don’t even bother exiting the vehicle.
#3: Allison steps out of the freight elevator just before the gate closes on all the Texans inside and tells Capt. Push through the bars, “You are wasting my time.” You go, girlfriend! (How the heck many Texan Rangers did they cram in there? Gotta be at least 20.)
Aha! The real deal.
Capt. Push is kind of cute, in an uptight, takes himself way too seriously kind of way. “Looks to me like the Partridge Family lived here,” at the real crime scene.
Allison hears something upstairs, something that no one else hears. She finds a young girl listening to music on her bed, her walls plastered with posters.
(If no one lives in this house, why is it still completely decorated? I didn’t see any crime scene tape. Hmph. Maybe it’s being preserved for evidence.)
Allison gives a detailed account of how the suspect’s sister died of neglect. The girl saw everything her brother did to that little boy.
Oh my, Capt. Push seems…resistant…to accepting information from the dead sister. That’s rather narrow-minded of him. Allison hooks him by saying, “Don’t you want to know where the body is, you big blowhard?”
Okay, I added the blowhard part, but I’m almost sure I heard her say it under her breath.
Out to the big field out back! Where Capt. Push ridicules Allison in a futile attempt to intimidate her after she tells him exactly where the body is buried.
As he gets all worked up, Allison says, “We both know that your heart can’t take this kind of agitation.” Hm. He looks shocked and a little embarrassed, and all the guys look quickly away when he turns to see if they heard her.
If they can’t dig because they don’t have a search warrant, why are all the deputies standing around with shovels? Hm?
Back home, Joe is bunking with the girls…awwww…as he talks to Allison by phone. Who’s that a’knockin’ on Allison’s hotel room door? It’s Capt. Happy! Joe worries he has a rival for Allison’s affections.
Allison: Yes, I’m leaving your for the angriest, ugliest man on the planet.
LMAO!
Capt. Push is doing a strip-tease! Oh, he just wants to show her his ginormous scar from his heart surgery.Then they adjourn to a bar…where Frasier is on the TV in the background. Heh. Kelsey Grammer is the executive producer on Medium, did you know?
Bar talk. Allison talks about her first experience as a medium, seeing her grandpa after he died. Capt. Push says that if they find a body in the morning after they get their search warrant, it will be a really, really good thing. It’s cute when the good guys bond.
Oh, of course there’s a storm that night! And not just any storm. It’s Hurricane Allison and Allison (the human one, not the windy one) must be evacuated. No body digging today, boys!
Allison takes out her frustrations on Joe by yelling at him in the car when he picks her up at the airport.
I’m not crazy about Patricia Arquette’s performance in the car scene. This is the one and only time I have ever noticed her “acting.” I still love her. Just my snarky observation.
Aw, next scene Bridgette is coloring and reaching for the exact right color crayon behind her without looking. Are they trying to tell us she’s psychic, too?
Ooh, more marital bliss…er, yelling.
Joe: Go read his mind! Your 17 year old pedophile!
Hey, that’s not a bad idea.
Allison tells the boy he looks like an ad for milk or toothpaste. He does! So wholesome. But his soul sounds like small animals being tortured. Ick! Then she totally freaks him out by describing the ghosts that came into the room with him: the man who molested him, the man who molested that man, and on and on and on.
Creepy!
As the perp flees the wrath that is Allison, she asks the ghosts (who we can’t see, dangit!) to speak to her and then turns her head like she’s listening to someone. Oooh…spooky.
Apparently the ghosts tell her the perp confessed everything to the guy in the cell next to him…but that guy won’t talk. What to do? Allison has Capt. Push tell him, “We know about the kiss.”
What?? Which is pretty much Capt. Push’s reaction, but he goes with the flow. He’s come a long way since the airfield, hasn’t he?
Well I guess it worked because here they are, Allison and Capt. Push, sitting in one of the ginormous SUV’s at the airfield with Capt. Push on the phone with the Governor finding out they can officially charge the teenager with murder. Woo-hoo!
But what’s this? Allison just confessed she guessed about The Kiss. The gall! The cheek! The big giant brass ones! Oh well, it worked, didn’t it?
Back at the ranch…er, the D.A.’s office, Allison tries to resign by telling Duvalos she is “apparently a little psychic or a little psycho.”
Duvalos then tells her the bad guy from her previous review of crime scene photos confessed while she was away and it happened exactly the way Allison had “theorized.” So instead of letting her quit, Duvalos hires her as a consultant. Yay!
Aw, look how cute the girls look at the breakfast table. They’ve grown up so much in the two seasons since the pilot was shot it’s fun to see them all little and adorable.
Her first day as a consultant, Allison is off to interview a jailbird and give Duvalos her “impressions.” Frankly, I am amazed he is so accepting of her psychic-ness. Then again, he IS a lawyer. They will take whatever they can get if it works in their favor case-wise.
Well, whaddya know. It’s absent-minded professor guy from her dream at the beginning of the show. Now that’s symmetry for ya.
TWO SNAPS UP FOR THE MEDIUM PILOT!
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1 opinion for Medium Liveblogging: Pilot (MED-001)
Arieanna
Sep 12, 2006 at 10:44 pm
That was awesome! Never did see the pilot. Very cool.
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