Medium 2.17: "Lucky in Love"
Written by Robert Doherty
Directed by David Jones
In which Allison has a dream where her brother is involved in a fatal bank robbery, which complicates things when he comes calling with a new girlfriend with a mysterious past…
To be honest, I didn’t remember Allison’s brother at all. A lot of time has passed since the first season, and there’s a lot of other material worthy of attention. So it completely slipped my mind that Lucky had abilities, making it a lot more surprising when Leah turned out to be the spirit of a grafter betrayed by her partners.
I’m not sure that Lucky is as interesting as the writers seem to think he is, but I was struck by the idea of someone not as bright or generally driven as Allison dealing with the effects of the family gift. Allison herself didn’t work it out until late in the proceedings, which makes it completely believable that Lucky wouldn’t recognize the signals.
My only concern is that the production wasn’t consistent in showing her as being dead. In some scenes, it’s clear in retrospect that she was being ignored by everyone but Lucky, especially when people are looking right at her and not reacting. It gave me the impression that she was in on another scam, pulling Lucky into another bank robbery. Unfortunately, in other scenes, she was being touched and touching things, which is still possible but breaks the illusion somewhat.
Maybe I was focusing more on what was happening between Allison and her brother, but I didn’t notice as many good scenes between Allison and Joe and the rest of the family. Everything was about Lucky’s personal situation, and it just wasn’t as interesting. As attractive as I found Leah (she of the oddly compelling accent and strange eyebrows), her chemistry with Lucky was lacking in a lot of key moments.
One thing I did enjoy quite a bit was the severity of Lucky’s predicament. The writers did a great job of demonstrating how determined he could be, despite the fact that he was getting beat half to death in the process. He really was acting like a man in love, willing to die for someone worth protecting, and there was a certain lug-headed dignity to it.
The episode itself was well done, and it certainly managed to surprise me along the way, so it’s not as if this was a particularly weak installment. It just wasn’t something that I would look forward to seeing again, which is not something that I usually experience when it comes to episodes of “Medium”.
Writing: 1/2
Acting: 2/2
Direction: 2/2
Style: 1/4
Final Rating: 6/10
Directed by David Jones
In which Allison has a dream where her brother is involved in a fatal bank robbery, which complicates things when he comes calling with a new girlfriend with a mysterious past…
To be honest, I didn’t remember Allison’s brother at all. A lot of time has passed since the first season, and there’s a lot of other material worthy of attention. So it completely slipped my mind that Lucky had abilities, making it a lot more surprising when Leah turned out to be the spirit of a grafter betrayed by her partners.
I’m not sure that Lucky is as interesting as the writers seem to think he is, but I was struck by the idea of someone not as bright or generally driven as Allison dealing with the effects of the family gift. Allison herself didn’t work it out until late in the proceedings, which makes it completely believable that Lucky wouldn’t recognize the signals.
My only concern is that the production wasn’t consistent in showing her as being dead. In some scenes, it’s clear in retrospect that she was being ignored by everyone but Lucky, especially when people are looking right at her and not reacting. It gave me the impression that she was in on another scam, pulling Lucky into another bank robbery. Unfortunately, in other scenes, she was being touched and touching things, which is still possible but breaks the illusion somewhat.
Maybe I was focusing more on what was happening between Allison and her brother, but I didn’t notice as many good scenes between Allison and Joe and the rest of the family. Everything was about Lucky’s personal situation, and it just wasn’t as interesting. As attractive as I found Leah (she of the oddly compelling accent and strange eyebrows), her chemistry with Lucky was lacking in a lot of key moments.
One thing I did enjoy quite a bit was the severity of Lucky’s predicament. The writers did a great job of demonstrating how determined he could be, despite the fact that he was getting beat half to death in the process. He really was acting like a man in love, willing to die for someone worth protecting, and there was a certain lug-headed dignity to it.
The episode itself was well done, and it certainly managed to surprise me along the way, so it’s not as if this was a particularly weak installment. It just wasn’t something that I would look forward to seeing again, which is not something that I usually experience when it comes to episodes of “Medium”.
Writing: 1/2
Acting: 2/2
Direction: 2/2
Style: 1/4
Final Rating: 6/10
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