Medium (TV series): Difference between revisions

Medium's series finale aired on January 21, 2011.

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* [[Abusive Parents]]: "Very Merry Maggie"; Scanlon's.

* [[Action Girl]]: Subverted. In one episode, Allison seems to be fighting off a group of muggers as if she were [[Xena: Warrior Princess|Xena]]. But in fact everything after the initial confrontation was a dream she had after actually getting beaten up.

* [[All Just a Dream]]

* [[Ambition Is Evil]]: When Devalos is tapped to become mayor of Phoenix, he wants to know his wife's best friend's husband Benito, a very ambitious but politically weak councilman, won't use their wives' personal information against him. Benito implies that he will (he knows about both Ariana's suicide and {{spoiler|Mrs. Devalos' subsequent pill addiction that she later beat (thankfully he doesn't know ''why'' Ariana killed herself)}}) so Devalos counters with {{spoiler|$25,000 in stolen funds for an abortion for Benito's comely campaign worker}}.

* [[The "B" Grade]]: Causes the teacher some very [[Disproportionate Retribution]] when {{spoiler|the student plants emails in his account and accuses him of rape. She gets him sentenced to 10 years in prison, which sets him up to be accused of murder once he gets out and has to announce himself as a sex offender.}}

* [[Babies Ever After]]: {{spoiler|Ariel is pregnant seven years in the future.}}

** The series finale future seemed pretty good {{spoiler|aside from Joe dying in a plane crash. Unfortunately that part wasn't a dream.}}

* [[Beard of Sorrow]]: Joe appears to grow a lovely example at the start of Season Six. Naturally, it's all a dream.

* [[Bilingual Dialogue]]: Allison gets a case of faulty [[Translator Microbes]] that make everyone sound as if they're speaking gibberish (she can still speak and read English) except for a professor who speaks Navajo. {{spoiler|It turns out that she and her assistant killed a pair of Navajo bank robbers after hearing them brag in Diné. [[Karmic Death|She gets hers later]] when she escapes to a foreign country and doesn't notice someone paying attention to her while she's bragging to Allison in English.}}

* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: {{spoiler|The series finale takes place seven years after Joe dies in a plane crash. Allison, now a lawyer for the DA's office, throws a case after finding proof that Joe is alive, but it turns out it was all just a dream that Joe sent to comfort her in the afterlife that Allison hijacked out of hope he could've survived. 41 years later Allison is reunited with Joe in the afterlife, and the final shots are the actors leaving the set.}}

* [[Bratty Teenage Daughter]]: Ariel

** The mantle has long since been passed to Bridgette.

** {{spoiler|Future Marie, who's angry that her dad never visited after he died (this was a dream, unfortunately it was sent from the afterlife).}}

* [[Bury Your Gays]]: A version of this is shown in "You Give Me Fever", where a boss actually gives a deadly fever to his employee-slash-boyfriend, in order to get money to produce the antidote, and the guy blows himself up to avoid anyone else getting the virus.

** In the end, it turns out that {{spoiler|the boss has a [[Karmic Death|fatal allergic reaction to the antidote]], and the boyfriend's ghost taunts him.}}

* [[The Cassandra]]: Subverted, by this point everyone who matters (except Joe and his wrecked sleep cycle) takes Allison's visions seriously.

* [[Catapult Nightmare]]: How Allison frequently awakens from her psychic dreams.

* [[Cuckoo Nest]]

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Several, but Joe CERTAINLY takes the cake.

* [[Deus Ex Machina]]: Aside from Allison herself, "divine intervention" for already-dead foes has appeared twice {{spoiler|against the mad doctor and Allison's psychic-hating stalker}}.

** Thrice-ish: {{spoiler|When Devalos' daughter's rapist threatens to rape someone unless Devalos admits he gave the prosecution evidence, Ariana intervenes from beyond to save her dad's career.}}

* [[Go Into the Light]]: Averted, as far as I know there's no mention of any light/afterlife for ''Medium'''s spirits, and even if they seem to be at peace (such as Joe's dad or {{spoiler|Ariana Devalos}}) they come back if there's something serious enough to warrant it.

** One spirit did talk about Heaven and Hell. She made it to Heaven but couldn't get in until Allison helped her settle her affairs. She could sense Hell sucking at her feet the whole time.

* [[Grand Theft Me]]: The episode "Man in the Mirror" where Todd Emory (Jeffrey Tambor) stole Allison's body.

* [[Groundhog Day Loop]]: "Be Kind, Rewind"

* [[I Never...]]

* [[I See Dead People]]

* [[It's a Wonderful Plot]]: In the season 2 finale "Twice Upon a Time," Allison dreams what life would be like if she married her old childhood friend instead of Joe after being throughly embarrassed at a court hearing {{spoiler|which turns out to also be part of a dream}}, which gives her a clue as to how the impossible appeared to be possible.

* [[Jacob Marley Apparel]]: In "Will the Real Fred Rovick Please Stand Up?", the ghost of a mascot of a local college football team is still wearing a beaver costume, since he died during a game.

* [[Little Miss Snarker]]: Bridgette

* [[Living Lie Detector]]: In one episode where {{spoiler|Allison hears a buzzer sound in her head}} whenever someone tells a lie.

* [[Mama Bear]]: Allison Kung-fu's a bunch of muggers: "Don't you dare mess with my kids' pictures." {{spoiler|Sadly that wasn't even just a dream -- she was knocked out by the muggers.}}

* [[Medium Blending]]: ([[Incredibly Lame Pun|Pun]] not intended.) It turns out that {{spoiler|Bridgette has Mommy's abilities, too}}, but all of her premonitions are in the form of extremely chilling (and violent) cartoons.

** Or a literal episode where she's working on a murder and just so happens to reacquaint with a childhood friend and at the same time begins dreaming about when she first met him {{spoiler|she quickly finds out he's likely behind the murder and others and in a dream alters time to stop herself from interrupting his suicide attempt.}}

* [[Captain Ersatz|Police Chief Ersatz]]: An unorthodox law enforcement officer in another county is clearly modeled after Arizona's [[wikipedia:Joe Arpaio|Sheriff Joe Arpaio]], pink prison outfits and all.

** [[The Silence of the Lambs|"The lamb chops were screaming at me."]]

** ''Will The Real Fred Rovick Please Stand Up?'' - referencing the famous [[Catch Phrase]] of ''[[To Tell the Truth]]''

** Now that {{spoiler|Allison's children have abilities too}}, Joe has become this even more.

* [[Unlimited Wardrobe]]: The Dubois ladies seem to have a disproportionate number of sleepwear.

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] / [[Knight Templar]]: Allison's stalker, who thinks psychic powers go against God's plan. Allison tries to reason with him that maybe the psychics are also God's plan, but to no avail.

** Allison herself walks the line between these all too often.

* [[We Would Have Told You But]]: Scanlon does this to Allison when the psychic [[Serial Killer]] reaches her house, by making it look like the cop-cars meant to protect her were backing off. Then, after telling Allison it'll still be another ten minutes before he can come help her, Scanlon arrives seconds later to her rescue, revealing the whole squad had been waiting for the right time to do so all along and that telling her would have jeopardized their plan.

*** He has now, and Allison doesn't feel like they can be friends anymore, at least until Allison's stubbornness about the whole thing leads to Scanlon nearly being stabbed to death. Now, they seem to be taking it day-by-day. Then there's Allison's general sanctimoniousness regarding her powers, to which Joe finally busts out with this: "Do you know how many sentences you begin with the words 'I know'? 'I know he had a partner. I know he kidnapped that woman. I know taking instructions from a dead soccer coach isn't cheating.' What's it like, knowin' everything?"

* [[Xanatos Speed Chess]]: Ariel and Joe, and to a lesser degree, Hannah, play this on a few occasions.

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