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 also did not the show was being canceled. What a surprize and a disapointment. I have watched the show from begining to end and was dissapointed it was canceled last year and was excited when it got picked up by CBS. What a bummer that CBS picked it up only to cancel it. It was one of the few good shows left on TV. Everything else on CBS kind of sucks. That was the only CBS show I watched. I looked forward to watching it on Fridays after a hard work week. My boyfriend didn’t love the show, but… Read more »
I will really miss watching medium. I just started getting into it about two years ago, and could’nt wait until next week to see what would happen next. I think that the finale was okay I guess, but they did’nt have to kill off Joe. I guess that takes care of Friday night for me as television goes. I did’nt even know that it would be cancelled until I saw that it was the series finale. My mom got me started watching the show, and even though she has since passed away, I really was hooked. It was cool to… Read more »
I was so mad!! what a horrible ending to a great show!! I can not believe they did it so stupid
The series finale was absolutely DISAPPOINTING- to say the least! I mean they did not have to make teh finale so complex, and aggeravating. They could have kept it at a happy note and the finale would have been a success-easily. Joe did not have to die. It actually became a big reason as to why the finale failed in the epsiode. I will not be counting this episode a part of Medium, I’ll just think of this past episode as a finale, honestly.
I can’t believe it is over, the shows that the tv producers are putting on now a days are horrible, I am not old but in my 30s and we need more shows like this than the reality tv. Medium and Big Love also got cancelled this year. I am about ready to cancel cable tv all together. The new shows coming on Television don’t hold a candle to the ones that are being cancelled. In fact I am cancelling HBO, I will not subscribe to it anymore and I know alot of others feel the same way. NBC I… Read more »
Wow. Can’t believe it’s over. Faithful viewer for years, I had no idea this was it. As the show progressed, I kept waiting for Allison to wake up. My girlfriend and I had become very wrapped up in the Dubois family and when Joe showed up at the end as a ghost, I admit I had a pretty big lump in my throat. (Yeah, I am a guy – but hell) I didn’t like the writers “burning it all down”. As with all good stories, they must end. But I like to imagine the characters going on without us watching,… Read more »
Have always been a big fan of the show and bummed that it was cancelled but I was very very happy with the series finale. I loved it and thought it was written perfectly!!!
My favorite show. Great acting, great writing. Finale came as a shock. Why did this show have to end? I could have written another 50o plots myself. Joe could have been a reoccuring ghost, and help out, like Dad. I have been watching Coronation Street for 20 years +. This show did not have to, and should not have, come to an end. Nice to know you return being young in the hereafter! And kissing in the hereafter! So much more could have been done…..
I had no clue that one of my favorite shows was ending. This was a very bad night for me. I came home to watch my show and ended up crying after a bad day at work. I think you all should have done a better job. I will not watch any show in this time slot. You should feel ashamed.
I was not up to date that Medium was being canceled (I only watch on Hulu) and was really bummed out. I was really surprised at the final episode being three weeks into January. I am still in awe that this amazing show is no longer on television. What is interesting though is that the real Allison Dubois made a fool of herself on the reality show The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. So I am wondering if that has something to do with it…
I couldn’t watch Medium regularly because our cable provider – Comcast – regularly chose to replace the Medium time slot with old Monk episodes, or sports events. I had to watch Medium on Hulu too. I was just getting ready to pay for Hulu “extra” specifically so I could watch Medium and House regularly. In fact, I prefered Medium over House and if put up against the House timeslot, I would have watched Medium. If CBS decided to cancel the show based solely on viewer ratings – they need to know many people out here couldn’t watch it during it’s… Read more »
I’ve been a DEVOTED fan for all seven years and the finale was as unfair an ending as I could have imagined. No, I’m not a girl but I cried like one (sorry ladies but, you know what I mean). Joe dies? Never gets to see his children grow up? Leaves Allison and family alone? This sounds like real life. That’s what I enjoy escaping! I don’t want to see this on TV too! Yes, the Dubois family was our family too. Watching the last episode was painful and left me feeling terrible as if it had really happened. Not… Read more »
WHAT THE ****! Are you kidding me! This finale was absolute bull****, I cant imagine what kind of sick person was behind the script for this one. The whole idea of medium was destroyed in one hour flat. Medium is all about family, how does CBS get off killing off Joe! Only a master psychologist could pull at every one of peoples fears like this in just one hour, and then say oh but I ended it happy! Horseshit! The story was such a perversion of everything Medium represented! Just another existentialist trying to shove their ideals down the throats… Read more »
As someone who has watched the show from the very beginning, I thought the series finale was awful. Killing Joe seems like a horrible way to end it and doesn’t stick with the spirit of the series. I mean have them move from Arizona or something but killing off a main character while his kids are young. You suck!
I was disappointed that the show was canceled and then the series finale was a hastily arranged patchwork of captioned time travel. At the very least, they could have given this well deserving series the dignity of a two hour final episode send off and with a plot that was something a little less chastened. And poor Joe is crumpled and cast off like some wrapper after all the chocolate’s been wolfed. I really would have prefered it if they’d created another “day in the life of…”just as they’d started the series and left it at that.
Along with the majority of people commenting on the “Medium” finale, I want to say “CBS, you suck!!!” My daughter and I have been faithful viewers of this show and are having trouble understanding why you couldn’t spend a little time on the writing of the finale and end it on a happy note. It would have been easy to end the show with Joe succeeding in his job (he is a rocket scientist after all), Allison as an assistant DA (she always helped put away the bad guys), and the kids growing older and happy in their chosen fields.… Read more »