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  • Feb 2, 2009
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  • Feb 2, 2009

Summary Patricia Arquette stars as a young wife and mother who, since childhood, has been struggling to make sense of her dreams and visions of dead people. Allison DuBois (Arquette) is a strong-willed young mother of three, a devoted wife and law student who begins to suspect that she can talk to dead people, see the future in her dreams, an...

Created By: Glenn Gordon Caron

  • CBS
  • Feb 2, 2009
  • CBS
  • Feb 2, 2009
Medium
Season 5
7 Seasons
Season Premiere: Feb 2, 2009
Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 5 Critic Reviews
70
User Score Universal Acclaim Based on 5 User Ratings
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Summary Patricia Arquette stars as a young wife and mother who, since childhood, has been struggling to make sense of her dreams and visions of dead people. Allison DuBois (Arquette) is a strong-willed young mother of three, a devoted wife and law student who begins to suspect that she can talk to dead people, see the future in her dreams, an...

Created By: Glenn Gordon Caron

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Episode 1 • Feb 2, 2009 • 41 m
Soul Survivor
Allison tries to help Devalos find the murderer of his friend's sister, however, her visions point toward the friend's husband who was killed in a car crash two years ago.
Episode 2 • Feb 9, 2009 • 42 m
Things to Do in Phoenix When You're Dead
Allison dreams of murder and blackmail, in which the only witness is a ghost. Pursuing the ghost to seek his help, she finds that he is alive. Meanwhile, Ariel has a weird reaction to her health assignment.
Episode 3 • Feb 16, 2009 • 41 m
A Person of Interest
Allison begins acting compulsively after dreaming about the murder of a judge years before.
Episode 4 • Feb 23, 2009 • 41 m
...About Last Night
Allison wakes up under a highway overpass clutching a mysterious note in one hand and has no recollection of the last six hours of her life.
Episode 5 • Mar 2, 2009 • 42 m
A Taste of Her Own Medicine
Allison attempts to help find the daughter of Devalos' friends, who seemed to have simply left town. Meanwhile Joe finds out that he is suffering from sleep deprivation, and Scanlon and Lynn's relationship takes an unexpected turn.
Episode 6 • Mar 8, 2009 • 41 m
Apocalypse... Now?
Allison begins preparing for the end of the world, as exposed to her through her dreams. She soon realizes that the man she believed to be the only one to survive the apocalypse is involved in a family massacre.
Episode 7 • Mar 23, 2009 • 42 m
A Necessary Evil
Allison teams up with the ghost of FBI Agent Cooper in order to catch a criminal, but she suspects Agent Cooper is once again up to no good. When Agent Cooper decides Allison is more trouble than she's worth he turns against her.
Episode 8 • Mar 30, 2009 • 42 m
Truth Be Told
Allison gains the ability to know when people are lying and with this ability discovers that a couple murdered their friends; the only problem is there is no evidence to support her claim.
Episode 9 • Apr 6, 2009 • 42 m
All in the Family
Allison works on what seems to be an ordinary missing person's case; however, Allison suspects the victim's children may have something to do with her disappearance.
Episode 10 • Apr 13, 2009 • 41 m
Then... and Again
Allison wakes up five years in the past, at which point she has never met Devalos and is nine months pregnant. In the year 2004 she attempts to convince her future boss that he is currently convicting an innocent man.
Episode 11 • Apr 20, 2009 • 41 m
The Devil Inside, Part One
Allison is being stalked by a man who believes that it is his duty to end her life in the name of God. This soon puts her entire family at risk and they are forced into a home lockdown.
Episode 12 • Apr 27, 2009 • 41 m
The Devil Inside, Part Two
Allison is no longer able to trust her dreams because the ghost of a madman has jumped into her mind and is turning all of her dreams into nightmares.
Episode 13 • May 4, 2009 • 42 m
How to Make a Killing in Big Business: Part 1
Allison is recruited by a Fortune 500 company to predict business trends. However, she continues to dream about a case she was working on in the DA's office.
Episode 14 • May 4, 2009 • 42 m
How to Make a Killing in Big Business: Part 2
While at her new job at the Lydecker Corporation, Allison shares the dreams she's been having of the serial killer in Phoenix with Devalos and Scanlon.
Episode 15 • May 11, 2009 • 41 m
How to Make a Killing in Big Business: Part 3
Allison holds a dark secret and Ariel has dreams that indicate her teacher may be in grave danger.
Episode 16 • May 11, 2009 • 42 m
The Man in the Mirror
When Allison suddenly goes into a coma, her spirit ends up in the body of a middle-aged man (Jeffrey Tambor), who insists on living with Joe and the children.
Episode 17 • May 18, 2009 • 41 m
The First Bite Is the Deepest
Cynthia Keener returns, asking Allison to help find a missing friend of hers. Allison is also asked by a real estate mogul to help find his missing wife.
Episode 18 • May 25, 2009 • 42 m
The Talented Ms. Boddicker
Allison dreams about and then meets a quirky bank teller, Mrs. Boddicker who apparently predicted her bank's recent robbery. Meanwhile, Joe's new job in San Diego puts a strain on the family and Allison must learn to cope in his absence.
Episode 19 • Jun 1, 2009 • 42 m
Bring Me the Head of Oswaldo Castillo
Allison dreams of a future where an unfamiliar man is comforting her after the loss of her entire family.
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Patricia Arquette

Allison Dubois, Allison DuBois, Allison Dunham

Miguel Sandoval

D.A. Manuel Devalos, General

Jake Weber

Joe Dubois, Dale Cosgrove, Joe DuBois

Sofia Vassilieva

Ariel Dubois, Abigail Cosgrove, Ariel DuBois

Maria Lark

Bridgette Dubois, Allison Dubois, Bella Cosgrove

David Cubitt

Detective Lee Scanlon, National Guardsman, Officer

Miranda Carabello

Marie Dubois, Marie DuBois

Madison Carabello

Marie Dubois, Marie DuBois, Mabel Cosgrove

Tina DiJoseph

Lynn DiNovi, Liaison, Lynn DiNovi-Deputy Mayor

Bruce Gray

Joe's Dad

John Prosky

Tom Van Dyke

Kendahl King

Sondra, Devalos' Assistant, Devalos's Assistant, Devalos's Assistant Sondra

Holliston Coleman

Hannah

Anjelica Huston

Cynthia Keener

Annamarie Kenoyer

Ashley Whitaker

Ted Garcia

Newscaster, Roving Reporter, On-the-Scene Newsman, Reporter #1, Reporter #3, TV Newscaster

Roxanne Hart

Lily Devalos

Conor O'Farrell

Larry Watt

Ned Schmidtke

Terry Cavanaugh

Brian Avers

Brian Fondran

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Metascore
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70
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0% Negative
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83
Get beyond that preposterous premise outlined above, and you've got a solid piece of prime-time entertainment. This show knows what it is, and knows exactly what the core audience expects.
By Verne Gay FULL REVIEW
83
The resolution with the ghost is plenty satisfying, but ultimately Medium's strength is that it's not about the ghosts.
By Alynda Wheat FULL REVIEW
63
It's "Ghost Whisperer" for adults, the equivalent of a movie you're happy you didn't pay to see at the theater, but content enough to have rented--amiable, distracting, and professionally crafted.
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60
Parts of tonight's episode and next week's also focus on the Dubois offspring and their own burgeoning psychic abilities, yet another growth opportunity for a show that keeps finding a way to survive in an ever-tougher world.
By Ellen Gray FULL REVIEW
60
In an episode like next week's, in which Allison spots the ghost of a recently deceased man watching a murder, the twistiness works; in one like tonight's, featuring a complicated web of affairs, betrayals and possible reincarnations, things become so tangled that the story and Arquette can't keep up.
By Alan Sepinwall FULL REVIEW

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