Medium – Season 3 DVD Drama (2011) Patricia Arquette Quality Guaranteed

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All 22 episodes from the third season of the American paranormal television drama series. Allison Dubois (Patricia Arquette) is a young mother blessed with psychic abilities, which she uses to help local law enforcement. With the information coming to her in cryptic dreams and visions, Allison often misinterprets these paranormal clues, hindering her constant efforts to convince skeptics of her gift and often leading to a race against the clock to crack violent and horrific crimes and bring the right criminals to justice. Episodes are: ‘Four Dreams: Part 1’, ‘Four Dreams: Part 2’, ‘Be Kind, Rewind’, ‘Blood Relation’, ‘Ghost in the Machine’, ‘Profiles in Terror’, ‘Mother’s Little Helper’, ‘The Whole Truth’, ‘Better Off Dead’, ‘Very Merry Maggie’, ‘Apocalypse Push’, ‘The One Behind the Wheel’, ‘Second Opinion’, ‘We Had a Dream’, ‘The Boy Next Door’, ‘Whatever Possessed You’, ‘Joe Day Afternoon’, ‘1-900-Lucky’, ‘No One to Watch Over Me’, ‘Head Games’, ‘Heads Will Roll’ and ‘Everything Comes to a Head’.
Having weathered a slight sophomore slump, creator-executive producer Glen Gordon Caron’s Medium returns to DVD with its third and arguably best season. As ever, Patricia Arquette’s lead performance as Allison DuBois, the medium/psychic whose visions of murderers, serial killers, and such make her an indispensable (and, in this season, controversial) part of the Phoenix district attorney’s office, leads the way. But Medium also continues to evolve. Season Two’s increased emphasis on Allison’s home life with husband Joe (Jake Weber) and their three daughters (Sofia Vassilieva as Ariel, Maria Lark as Bridgette, and toddler Miranda Carabello as Marie) sometimes lessened a story’s dramatic impact, but not this time. More and more, we see that the mixed blessing that is Allison’s “gift” (it’s one thing to have dreams that help solve vicious crimes, but quite another to be what she calls “a walking carnival trick,” haunted by frightful, violent nightmares that aren’t always what they seem to be) has been passed on to her children, and in some unusual ways. In “Four Dreams,” the two-parter that opens the season, Bridgette dreams what her mother dreams–except the child’s visions take the form of cartoons; meanwhile, “Mother’s Little Helper” finds Ariel and Allison seeing the same visions from very different points of view. Joe, too, is increasingly fleshed out. The role of the spouse who struggles to understand but can’t really get what his partner is going through is a tough one, but Joe’s harrowing experience as a hostage is an important sub-plot throughout the final seven episodes, the last three of which (a triple-header, if you will, as all three involve a serial killer whose grisly m.o. earns him the nickname “the Recapitator”) feature Neve Campbell and Jason Priestley in recurring roles. Of course, this is hardly a typical police procedural; the Law & Orders and CSIs of the world cover that ground. Any TV show helmed by Moonlighting creator Caron will have its share of eccentric touches. Thus we get episodes like “The One Behind the Wheel” (Allison is possessed by a mouthy, repugnant crime victim, but Joe insists she pretend to be herself so as not to freak out the kids) or “Better Off Dead,” an amusing and touching tale of a ghost struggling to accept his fate. Overall, though it has its weaknesses, Medium remains one of TV’s most eminently watchable series.–Sam Graham

Synopsis
Based on the book Don’t Kiss Them Goodbye by real-life psychic investigator Allison DuBois, Medium blends crime-drama with the supernatural for a smart and chilling spin on the detective genre. Patricia Arquette (True Romance, Stigmata) stars as a fictionalised version of DuBois, a family woman and aspiring lawyer who has been haunted all her life by strange visions and dreams. When she realises she has the capacity to communicate with the dead, Allison puts her unique skills to work for a sympathetic district attorney (Miguel Sandoval) while depending on her husband (Jake Weber) and two daughters (Sofia Vassilieva and Maria Lark) for moral support. Dark, moody, and creatively original, the show’s third series is presented here in its entirety.See more