Medium - The Complete First Season (DVD, 2006, 5-Disc Set)

This is the first time that I've see Medium and I really liked it. It's based on a real life psychic's life and in the extras you get to see her and her husband.
I love the dreams but I wish her husband would stop acting like he doesn't know why she keeps waking up at night. The dreams are important and she has to figure out how and if they relate to her case. Interesting and fun.
Here's my only problem with it: the husband. He's so wrong to be the husband. He exactly like David Spade. His interview in the extras finished off why I don't like him. He doesn't fit Patricia Arquette at all, a coupling that would have never happened. He's supposed to be a Rocket Scientist and that's way too big of a stretch of the imagination. He can't do nerdy either.
I like the kids. The oldest one is in danger of being sexualized, I hope her Mom says NO! Good actors, both of them, the middle one is nutty and says her lines like Shirley Temple with a deeper voice but I find her interesting. I liked her interview in the extras. There's also a toddler who has no personality yet.
Watch it, I think you'll like it

This is possibly the strongest first season I have ever seen for a television show. It dives right in, pulls no punches, and takes you along for every ride. This isn't a fast paced show like 24, or even a thoroughly detailed crime drama like CSI or Law & Order, it's just a great show about this woman who has an incredible gift and tries to understand what she can do to help people with her gift. She's a mother, a wife, a daughter-in-law, and she has to figure out how to live her life as a medium working for the district attorney's office with each of her other responsibilities. Great show, makes you think and makes you feel like your family is nomal.

Medium is FANTASTIC! If you have seen the show on TV or not sure but always wanted to check it...be sure to get Season One on DVD!! It is roughly about a woman who sees dead people, I know..I know!! But what makes this great is that she finds work with the DA's office and begins using her special "powers" to help solve murders. There are always lots of twists and turns!! She does all of this while trying to balance a home, hubby and 3 girls! Be sure to give it a shot...you will be pulled in from the very first episode!! TWO PAWS WAY UP!!

I had never seen the tv program but read both books by Allison DuBois. The books made me want to see the television program so the DVD set was a perfect solution. The entire first season was wonderful and I am looking forward to buying season two when it comes out on DVD.

I won the bid for Medium Season 1 about June 27. Right away it said that it had been shipped. It later showed that it would arrive between July 17 and July 22. After July 22, I contacted the buyer via e-mail. The buyer said that they were sorry that I didn't receive. I finally got it Aug 4 and there was no protected card around it, just the discs enclosed in an envelope. I watched all the discs which were fine until Disc 5. Luckily there was only 1 episode on this disc as it was defective and would not play.
I gave this buyer below average because of the long delivery time and defective disc. I did know that it wasn't a new set, but I did expect the buyer to ship in some sort of protected container as the discs were loose.