I watched Medium<\/i> last night. It’s quite good. I’ve always been a fan of Patricia Arquette’s. I think she’s one of those under-rated gems. Her performance in True Romance<\/i> is spectacular – what a performance!! The call girl huddled up in the blanket in the cold, crying about how she loves him, telling him that she is “completely ………. monogamous.” Great part. Alabama was her name. She’s terrific.<\/p>\n
She’s very good in Medium<\/i> as well, and I’m always happy to see her working. She has a couple of kids in real life, and works her schedule around them which limits the parts she gets. She seems okay with that – she’s never been a big careerist – but I never want to see her drop out completely. I also love her body. She seems very at home in it.<\/p>\n
The part I’m playing in this play is a medium. Someone who can hear the dead speak, who is surrounded by voices that she needs to either filter out or listen to. Also someone who occasionally works with the police department (on the hush-hush, of course) to put together crime scenes, get into the mind of the killer, the victim, what have you. One of those. Not a psychic – they don’t like that word, apparently. They like “medium”, or “clairvoyant”.<\/p>\n
I watched it just to get an idea of this real-life medium’s life, how this “gift” or “curse” works for her, how she experiences it … as research, if you will … but then ended up getting sucked into the story.<\/p>\n
It’s really not all that bad. I rarely watch regular network television anymore – because most of it sucks. I religiously watch Yes, Dear<\/a><\/i> for obvious reasons, and I also watch The West Wing<\/i> on occasion, which I really enjoy. But for the most part – I never go near network TV. I watched a bit of Las Vegas<\/i> which was on before Medium<\/i> and … sorry if there are any fans out there … but it is really shockingly bad. Even down to the casting. The acting is generic. The actors cast in the smaller cameo parts are generic – not very good. All the real talent out there appears to be working for HBO. And Lara Flynn Boyle – good GOD, woman, lay off the collagen. How old is she? Is she my age? She must be my age … but she has now had so much work done that she looks way older. Ironically. Her lips are plumped out unnaturally. Her face is drawn and gaunt. Her collarbone juts out. But not as far as her lips jut out. What happened to that delectable freckled redhead who was so cute on Twin Peaks<\/i>? What happened to her? She looks absolutely atrocious. And she can’t act anymore either. Whatever talent she might have had she has squandered. She got caught up in her own looks – so her acting is now self-conscious, guarded, and … feckin’ BAD.<\/p>\n Compared to the stuff on HBO, this network stuff is really bad. In quality, in direction, in what the show looks like …<\/p>\n But Medium<\/i> was a pleasant surprise. I’ll watch it again. It was also very helpful for me, just in terms of what I was looking for. I took notes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I watched Medium last night. It’s quite good. I’ve always been a fan of Patricia Arquette’s. I think she’s one of those under-rated gems. Her performance in True Romance is spectacular – what a performance!! The call girl huddled up … Continue reading