MEDIUM “Where Were You When…” Season 7 Episode 6 – An earthquake is hitting Arizona at 9.18am and Allison DuBois is seeing hands. Every time she touches someone she sees exactly where they were when the earthquake hit. From Marie’s art class, to Joe vandalising a house to a garage security guard finding a car bomb, she sees the location, the time, everything except the day which makes her feel increasingly helpless. Meanwhile Joe is enlisted n the neighbourhood watch to keep an eye out for hooligans who are vandalising a foreclosed house.
It was another excellent instalment of Medium, making CBS’ downsize order of 22 episodes to only 13 all the more bitter. This show is just a misnomer: everything is working for it: cast, direction, writing, plots, everything: is there any other show that can switch from the father lovingly commenting on “joining our little Picasso in bed” to the bloody body parts of a building investigator in plastic bags being thrown into dumpsters.
As usual, the storyline was a puzzle that got even more interesting and complicated as more pieces were found. The business tycoon Robert Walcott was a perfect villain, splitting the skull of his colluder and building investigator and chopping him into little pieces, blowing up his own building in order to avoid a prison sentence. He was so smug and hateful, coolly sipping coffee as he prepares to bury dozens of innocent co-workers and government officials, that I thought the phone call, predictable though it may have been, very satisfying.
There were a few surprises this week, not the least of which was the graffiti culprit was none other than the darling Marie. With Ariel still in college, it is nice to see Marie getting some more screen time. Of course, Bridgette is still the show’s scene stealer as she casually and comically realises she sleep-vandalised the foreclosed home. Joe is still television’s most awesome dad and if you doubt that I refer you to the scene of all four of the DuBois clan sleeping on Joe and Allison’s bed. And Allison and Joe make one of the sweetest couples: I never coo, but I cooed at the “J hearts A” graffiti on the foreclosed home.
The fact that Medium is going so strong, even after losing one of its key characters in Ariel, makes it all the more annoying that this is most likely the final season.
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