In the opening of the show, Allison wakes up suddenly after dreaming of a voyeur walking the streets at night who sees a woman undressing in an upstairs window. A man approaches the woman, breaks a glass bottle and holds it up to her, arguing about something. I was completely confused by this opening dream sequence. I guess the aim was to misdirect the audience into thinking that the Peeping Tom had something to do with something. And why would a husband break a glass bottle and threaten his wife with it? Isn’t this what you do in bars? She died from taking poisoned pain reliever. I don’t get the broken bottle thing either.
“Allison has visions of a friend of Scanlon girlfriend (Lynn) dying in a home mishap. This causes her to struggle with connecting some recent “accidental” deaths, consequently putting her own health in jeopardy.” In this blurb from the internet and in the previews of this week’s episode, “A Cure for What Ails You,” they were emphasizing the jeopardy of Allison’s health. Well, I thought this was pretty gimmicky. Allison passes out once, and wakes up perfectly fine. Besides scaring the bejesus out of her husband, and consequently pissing him off because of the $500 emergency room visit, there was no jeopardy to her health. I thought NBC saved up this misleading sensationalism for ER.
The story of the five strangers meeting in an airport, and devising a scheme to kill their loved-ones/partners with poisoned pain reliever was a stretch for me. It was an interesting enough twist, but I don’t think it’s feasible. I’ve seen people (who know each other) create evil schemes on reality shows and fail to follow through. I really have a hard time believing that five strangers would all follow through on a life-or-death scheme like this one. Well, at least they found a way to pass the time while they were snowed in at the airport.
Note to self: If I am ever feeling dizzy, and I can’t see straight, and I’m parked on the top floor of a parking garage, remember not to try to drive. This was hard to believe as well. If you are that messed up that you can’t put the key in the ignition on the first attempt, why would any normal person continue to try to drive? I guess the writers wanted a dramatic car-flying-off-the-top-of-a-parking-garage scene.
Besides all of the show’s faults, I was still entertained. I appreciated Joe being angry at his wife after her dramatic passing out but technically asleep episode. They did not need the unnecessary emergency room charges. Real people aren’t always immediately understanding – and I appreciate the way Medium handles these types of issues.
But the cute story about Marie and her need for glasses was the saving grace of the episode. This episode confirms that Marie, like her other sisters, has inherited her mother’s psychic abilities. During her first visit to the eye doctor, she perfectly recites the animals on the eye chart by reading the doctor’s mind. Joe had to go back a second time, put earphones on the doctor, and turn the doctor towards Marie, and not the chart, to get him to see her squinting, and her inability to really “see” the chart.
I originally heard that there would only be nine episodes this season, but this one makes thirteen. I know of two more episodes coming. The next is “Car Trouble.”Allison meets Meghan Doyle, Joe’s new business partner. Meanwhile, her old car stops working and Joe surprises her with a nice looking used car. The car ends up being the center of a horrible unsolved crime though (of course). I heard that this Meghan Doyle is supposed to cause trouble in the DuBois marriage. If it were my decision, I wouldn’t go down that path. I guess time will tell if they made the correct decision.
