If you are searching for a great DVD series, check out the hit Psychic show ‘Medium’ – the entire seven season series is now available on DVD.
In the series renowned actress Patricia Arquette plays Allison DuBois the strong willed mother of three girls who has the amazing ability to communicate with dead people.
The guardian.co.uk, describes just why this series was so great, and a must have on DVD.
Arquette’s character Allison DuBois is a psychic medium working for the district attorney in Phoenix, Arizona. She dreams about crimes, sometimes before they have happened, gets given clues by ghosts, can talk to dead people – and eventually persuades the authorities to use her abilities to their advantage. Which all sounds pretty preposterous, until you realise it is based on a real-life Allison DuBois, a “psychic profiler” who really did work in law enforcement and serves as consultant on the show. Writer Glenn Gordon Caron, who also created Moonlighting, based Medium on the real Dubois’ memoirs.
One of Medium’s major strengths is the way it contrasts ghostly investigations into often grisly cases with Allison’s altogether more normal home life. Jake Weber (an Andrew Graham-Dixon/Edwin Van Der Sar lookalike whose dad was a drug dealer for the Rolling Stones in the early 70s) plays her husband Joe – a sardonic, slightly baffled engineer who never seems to get a full night’s sleep because his wife’s always shaking him awake by the shoulder to tell him about her latest gruesome dream. Arquette and Weber make a convincing couple. Accomplished child actors play their three daughters, who turn out to have inherited their mother’s ability; as the girls discover when they hit puberty, the gift can also be a curse. They all bicker affectionately and make one of the most likable, believable families you’ll find anywhere on television.
Arquette is excellent: dreamy and distant at times, tired but tough, her suburban mumsie exterior hiding a steely determination to see justice done. She won an Emmy and got three consecutive Golden Globe nominations for the part. Other familiar faces pop up too, often as villains: Kelsey Grammer, Neve Campbell, Eric Stoltz, David Carradine, Emma Stone, Arquette’s siblings David and Rosanna. Anjelica Houston has a recurring role as a private detective who teams up with Allison.
Last year ‘Medium’ was cancelled to the dismay of many fans of the Psychic series. The entire series is available from many online sellers like Amazon Click Here To Check Out The DVD Set.
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