My TV watching has taken a turn toward the past.
I have discovered that Amazon Prime has the complete series "Medium". It was a huge favorite of mine back when it first appeared on NBC in 2005.
I have devoured Season 1. The writing is so good, and the casting was perfection. It's unique to me because it's about a woman with a family (husband and three girls) who uses a gift she has tried to avoid to build a career helping the DA of her city.
What's unique about it is the familial relations at play...the husband, extremely well-played by Jake Weber, is the loving husband, doting father, but extremely rational and concerned about how his wife's job impacts their relationship and their family.
Patricia* Arquette is wonderful as Allison Dubois. The little girls are adorable, but precocious and annoying and quirky.
The cases Allison assists with are fascinating.
The show's first episode, and final episode of Season 1, features a very interesting and refreshing character: A Texas Ranger played by the talented Arliss Howard. The last episode of Season 1 is a "To Be Continued" episode that starts Season 2.
It's so strange to me that this series was all that many years ago. All the "little girls" are grown women with families of their own now. Sofia Vassilieva was the eldest, Maria Lark the next. I don't recall who played the baby, but she grew during the show's run of seven seasons.
I have never seen another show in which the husband and wife had so many scenes in their bed...where Allison has her disturbing dreams, where the little girls run in and and jump in with them on weekend mornings....where the dramas of the day play out in adult discussions that always serve the story. There is adult intimacy but always in the framework of a healthy, contentious at times, relationship based in love and family.
*correction. Thanks, George!
