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 am very sad to see the show end like this. However after having an opportunity to see the real Patricia Arquette on Real Houswives of Beverly Hills, I see why the show abruptly ended. She is nothing like her tv character….a bit sinister!
I have grown to really like this show over the years and being able to watch the characters grown and evolve over time. That said I have to say that I was very disappointed by the final episode and felt that it does not fit with the high bar set by the rest of the show. Joe was needlessly and unceremoniously killed off in the opening sequence right before the viewer is taken on a bizarre flash forward involving Joe having amnesia and being used as a drug mule by some Mexican drug cartel. Honestly we all burst into laughter… Read more »
I hated it.
It was awful. Allison shouldn’t have had to go on for 41 years without Joe. I cried. A better ending should’ve happened for this great show. I will miss it and don’t understand why they cancelled it. Sniff, sniff.
I loved Medium. I am very upset to see it go. I wish they didn’t have to end! I will Miss Allison and Detective Scanlon the most!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I wish they would have omitted the dream scene (circa DALLAS) and proceeded from there. Even with the time travels, it would have been a natural progression to her and Joe being together eternally. I really loved it otherwise. It reminded me so much of the finale episode of Charmed, a lot of time and generations were crammed into a little time slot. 🙂
I am really going to miss this series. The last show was very well done but knowing it is over makes me sad
I was very upset by the series finale. Joe and Allison have had one of the strongest and most loving marriages in the history of television, but the producers just couldn’t let them live happily ever after. Joe was cheated out of seeing his children grow up and Allison spent 48 years without the man she loved. The fact that they were reunited at Allison’s death didn’t redeem the story. The characters deserved better and so did Medium fans!
I thought the final show was awesome but hate to see the show end. Really wish that somehow it would come back!! Have been a faithful viewer since the show started.
Good ending..however, I had really become a fan of the show and hope they will continue to air it in reruns… They COULD revise it, at some point….after all if TV can revive Bobby Ewing (Dallas) after an entire season w/out him by just saying it was all a dream, then the same could be done for Medium. A show based on dreams could come back to life the same way! It’s amazing how tv stations cancel popular shows based on “ratings”. In all my 56 years, NO ONE has ever asked ME what I thought about a TV show.… Read more »
I had not idea the show was going to end!! I feel like I took it for granted that it would always be there….loved the show even if I miss the Friday show I was watch on the demand channel on the weekend!!
I like the ending….especially the last few scenes!!
Total bummer. I didn’t realize it was the finale. All the hood shows are ending. First without a trace now medium. What will I watch? Weird to me to see Enrique as one of the cast.
I’m sorry the show ended. I loved that show! I cried my eyes out at the end. I couldn’t believe Joe was really dead. How sad! :(:(:(
Hate to see Medium go – how sad. Any chance of reviving it?
Hated, hated, hated the ending. Why can’t people just end up happy when a show ends. Killing off Joe was like losing my best friend and the husband everyone wishes they had.