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Posted by GPR79 on 08/23/06 12:25
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Medium: Complete First Season R1 £25
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Superior R1 USA boxset, packed with extras not found on the (more
expensive) R2 UK release!
" It's not a coincidence that Medium represents not only Glen Gordon
Caron's best TV work since Moonlighting but also his most successful
siege on the Nielsen ratings since the 1980s heyday of the latter show.
In an interview included in this five-disc set (which contain all 16
episodes from the first season, in addition to bountiful bonus
features), the writer-director-producer confides that the series was
partly inspired by films like Something Wild and Married to the Mob, in
which director Jonathan Demme achieved a balance of what Caron calls
"the serious and the frivolous." Medium also contains elements of
Moonlighting and another Caron creation,1999's underrated Now and Again;
there are echoes of The Sentinel and The Dead Zone as well, not to
mention a hefty dose of The Sixth Sense. So while it's not what you'd
call unique (then again, what on TV is?), Medium nevertheless provides
engaging, rewarding entertainment.
Patricia Arquette stars as Allison DuBois, whose skills as both a medium
(i.e., she sees dead people) and a psychic (she can fairly accurately
read minds and predict future events) make her an invaluable help to the
Phoenix district attorney (Miguel Sandoval). But like most characters
possessed of extraordinary powers, Allison isn't entirely comfortable in
her own skin; plagued by awful nightmares (one of which kicks off every
episode), she tends to become cranky and depressed, has a hint of a
drinking problem, and regularly gets into it with her supportive but
skeptical husband, Joe (Jake Weber). Those are the very characteristics
that make the show consistently watchable. Although one might wish that
she would find herself in real danger more often as she deals with
everything from necrophiliac serial killers and air crashes to ghosts
and child molesters, Caron focuses less on special effects and police
procedure than on Allison's humanity, including her efforts to balance
work and family responsibilities (sub-plots involving her young
daughters are usually effective, if sometimes a bit too cute). It's the
stories and the writing that make Medium work; Caron, in fact, is the
show's real star. Well over an hour's worth of bonus features include
deleted scenes, commentary on some episodes, a couple of "making of"
featurettes, and a look at the real-life Allison DuBois, whose powers
are apparently every bit as impressive as her fictional counterpart's. "
Special Features:
Available Subtitles: English
Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), Spanish (Dolby
Digital 2.0 Stereo)
Commentaries by Creator/executive producer/writer/director Glenn Gordon
Caron and supervising producer/writer Moira Kirland, Director of
photography Ken Kelsch and production designer Jessica Kender, Chad Lowe
and executive producer Ronald L. Schwary, executive producer/writer Rene
Echevarria, etc
16 episodes on 5 discs
Extended version of the pilot
Deleted scenes on select episodes
"The Making of Medium" featurette
"The Story of Medium" featurette
"Interpreting Allison Dubois" featurette
"The Real Allison DuBois" featurette
Gag reel
TV spots
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