Tonight, CBS aired the final episode of Medium. After seven seasons and 130 episodes, it was time to say goodbye to Allison DuBois (Patricia Arquette), her husband Joe (Jake Weber), their children and friends. The series finale of Medium is called “Me Without You.”
As the episode begins, we see Allison having an evening phone conversation with Joe who’s at the start of a flight home from Hawaii. Later, Allison is awoken by another call from Joe. His flight is arriving early and then it hits turbulence, and crashes into the ocean. The episode flashes forward seven years and we learn that Joe indeed died. Allison is now a lawyer involved in a big drug case. Her boss, the district attorney, is killed by the leader of a drug cartel who’s on trial. Manuel Devalos (Miguel Sandoval) is the mayor and Lee Scanlon (David Cubitt) is the chief of detectives.
Allison begins to dream about Joe and realizes that he’s actually been alive in Mexico with amnesia. The drug lord has been using him to transport narcotics across the border. She ultimately decides to throw the case so that she can reunite with her husband. She and daughter Marie drive to Mexico and she is reunited with him, finally.
Unfortunately, it’s a dream. She awakes back in the present and Joe is there, as a ghost. He did die in the crash and he tried to send a message to Allison about how good her life will still be, even without him. Unfortunately, her mind couldn’t accept it and concocted a way for him to still be alive. Joe tells her how much he loves her and that the loss will hurt for a long time but it will get better. Though she pleads for him to stay, he needs to go.
The scene flashes forward to 41 years later. We see a very old Allison, surrounded by photos of her children and grandchildren. She dies peacefully. Allison appears as her younger self and looks at her now dead body. Joe appears to her, just as he had been. He waited, of course. She asks, “Do I get a kiss?” He replies, “From now, until the end of time.” The two embrace and kiss. They are together, forever more.
The episode ends with brief scenes from the show’s seven year history and each castmember silently saying goodbye to the camera and faithful viewers.
What do you think? Was this a satisfying conclusion to Medium? What did you like or dislike about it?
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I had no idea I was watching it for the last time.I’m so mad that it’s over!! I can’t understand why such a good show has been taken off the air.Out of all the crap that is put on T.V. this was something my family enjoyed together.
I loved the last episode!!! I am so sad it’s over, I love the show and record it all the time. I will watch ever re-run and I hope they will someday bring it back! I don’t really believe in ghosts but that show could make a believer out of anyone!
I loved the last episode!!! I am so sad it’s over, I love the show and record it all the time. I will watch ever re-run and I hope they will someday bring it back! I don’t really believe in ghosts but that show could make a believer out of anyone!
Were they cancelled at the last minute and had to throw together this pathetic hodge-podge? I’m very glad that Allison was only very seldom shown as this spineless and weak. As Sherlock Holmes said, having seen this I will now endeavor to forget it. It was nice to have all the actors say goodbye at the end.
I like the show but I think you guys suck for takeing it off the air my wife an I have never missed an episode for all seven years i’m tired of the tv networks takeing off all the good showes and putting on crap instead I for one i’m losing all faith in network tv.
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tim carson
Out of all the episodes of Medium, I thought this was the stupidest episode ever. I have loved this show for many years, and this finale made the show seem like a joke. VERY DISAPPOINTED!
Honestly I thought it was pretty awful. It is not necessary to kill off Joe, what does that bring to the story? I had a film professor tell me once “If a plot point does not bring the story forward, then get rid of it”. I have to use that sort of logic here.
After seven years of watching what I thought to be a very realistic marriage, both the good and the bad, to end like this for one episode, what is that bringing to the overall story?
The final episode was bittersweet, romantic, epic. This has been one of the best shows on TV and I will miss it greatly.
Honestly I thought it was pretty awful. It is not necessary to kill off Joe, what does that bring to the story? I had a film professor tell me once “If a plot point does not bring the story forward, then get rid of it”. I have to use that sort of logic here.
After seven years of watching what I thought to be a very realistic marriage, both the good and the bad, to end like this for one episode, what is that bringing to the overall story?
No, I hated it. It was very sad and that’s a terrible thing for us to have to remember. I would have been happier with them continuing as a happy family.
It’s too bad your taking all the good shows off tv for stupid so called reality shows that suck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I so enjoyed this show. This series finale was so sad.
I cried so much when I finally realised that joe was actually dead. Surely they didn’t have to do this?!!
My husband and I were watching an episode that shocked us. We did not know we were watching the last episode of “Medium”. BRAVO, BRAVO, BRAVO, that was a wonderful ending. We are very very saddened that Medium was cut. All the cast is just wonderful, and cannot imagine not watching, Joe, Allison, Ariel, Brigette, and Marie, not to mention Devalos. This is a show they should not have cut, we are very upset about that. Best wishes to the cast we have come to love. Roy and Lea Luna
This show should NOT have been cancelled.
Medium is one of my favorite shows. I’m so sad to see it go. I thought the series finale was absolutely wonderful. I didn’t know the show had been cancelled. I was shocked. I will miss it terribly!