Posted by Dustin on 02.12.2009 at 7:16 pm

This past week’s “Medium” I wasn’t so hot about. It was similar to a lot of the storylines last season where the bad guys weren’t getting caught, and I didn’t like them either. I realize though it’s closer to real life that way, sometimes the bad guys get away.

In this episode a doctor who was dying of a tumor and a fellow doctor were basically inducing out-of-body trips for the dying doctor. They were injecting him with drugs to “kill him” then later shock him back. It was very much like that movie “Flatliners” made years and years ago. While having his out of body trips, he would locate someone doing something wrong and then they would blackmail him. The one doctor was of course getting money out of the scheme, the dying one was paying off his bills and leaving something for his family behind beside his measly life insurance.

Well Alison of course caught onto them, and this resulted in the dying doc getting scared and deciding they should stop. It didn’t take a brain surgeon to realize the second doc was going to get greedy and let him die on the table, which she did. The dead/dying Doc came to Alison and told her everything, and Alison confronted the 2nd woman doc about it all. She was planning to flee to Mexico with all the money they had made, she stashed it in her car (including the dead doc’s portion!). She set her up, with the ghosts help, and the dead doc’s wife was able to steal all the money from her car and take off with it. Alison knew she couldn’t nail this doctor for what she had done, but she warned her not to even try reporting the money stolen to the police as it would implicate her!

I don’t know, I didn’t connect with this story. I did however enjoy that the dead/dying doc was played by the same actor who plays Sam on “True Blood.” So since I won’t get “True Blood” till summer, I got to see Sam. It was neat seeing him in a totally different role and without the accent.

Joe and the kids’ story centered on Ariel, who was taking the class where they have the fake baby and are married to another kid in class. Every time she held the baby, she basically got high. Joe figured out the baby daddy was smoking up every chance he could.

My issue with this story was the resolution. Joe sought to protect his daughter from her “spiritual highs” and blackmailed the boy, saying from now on he did the whole assignment and took care of the baby, in return Joe wouldn’t tell the school or his parents about his habit. Ummmmm . . . Joe you just left a “baby” and your daughter’s grade in the hands of a pot head! That baby’s gunna be dead before the assignment ends!