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 was shocked and saddened to find this was the finale of the series. I saw no warning prior to this episode that this one was it. I feel like I’ve lost a member of my family, suddenly, tragically.
I hope this series will be born again on another network and Allison wakes up from one horrible nightmare.
Knowing that this would be the last episode, I think it was done well. It truly puts an end to the show so that there is no possibility of any returning. I doubt that in the entire 5 years plus that Medium aired did I miss any of the shows. I recorded them all and watch them back. It is one of the television shows that I will miss and remember. Patricia Arquette made the show.
i loved the last episode best yet but sorry to see go…i love patricia a….she is soo damn sexy
I too was shocked to learn this was the series finale and will miss the show as I have been a fan since the beginning. However, I loved the storyline (very Ghost and Mrs. Muir) and I found the final curtain calls to be the classiest most theatrical way to end a series ever. Well done. And thank you for a greatly entertaining TV experience all these years.
I was totally shocked to watch that episode. I didn’t know the series was ending and I kept expecting her to wake up. I thought it was a stupid end to a great series.
I was shocked when I saw “series finale” on the teaser last week. A well written, beautifully acted, unique and creatively different show: doesn’t stand a chance in the reality t.v. era, ruled by numbers and left brained suits of number crunchers. Such a strong, well defined, quirky collaborative with brilliant writers. With so much tripe on t.v. it is sad to see this show go. I hope another network discovers the gold and that there is definitely an audience for this show. It can always come back, even after this finale. The writers are clever enough to figure out… Read more »
Oh ditto to above. I had no idea it was ending and screamed at the end. Why must all my shows end so abrubtly. We also loved Moonlighting and it just stopped. I thought the ending was ok but I hate when shows move ahead so many years. I am with them now and I want to be with them the whole way, not wonder what happened to them all the years in between. A photograph doesn’t do it. Joe will not have died in my version. Anyway I will miss Medium forever as I thought it so interesting. I… Read more »
I just can’t believe that it is over.. I did not know that it was over until the end of the show. I only watch recorded episodes and I didn’t hear that it was over… so sad!!! It was a great show!
As usual, the writers of this show have been extremely imaginative. I felt a connection to Joe, which I attribute to the wonderful character development contributed to by the writers and the actor. He seemed so real to me. I surely would love to find a man like Joe. I am glad that we didn’t have the usual happy ending, however. Great-grandmother Alison at the nursing home was wonderfully played by Patricia Arquette. I will miss all of the characters, especially Bridget. The children were all believable. But the best thing about this show was that even after so many… Read more »
I am soooo disappointed in CBS – I was watching the show wondering why they died not even knowing it was the series ending! I am so sad this was my fav show – I had to google the show to find out what was going on! I looked forward to watching it every fri with my family- I think it was a terrible mistake by CBS to end this awesome show !!!!!!!! I am still bewildered……..
I to had no idea it was going to be the last show. I was shocked telling my husband about it and i watched it again with him. Not to many shows on TV I am interested in as it is. First Ghost Whisper, now Medium. 🙁
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Terrible ending to a great show. Joe’s death really made no sense as the finale. Nor did the ending where the died an elderly woman all alone. The final kiss was great, but it didn’t find the chord it should have with me. She should have died having a dream, and just not waking up this time. Loved the show, but hated the finale and the “surprise” that it was the finale.
The finale was a shock and very upsetting. Why have us grieve over the loss of Joe Dubois when it never happened to the real Dubois family. I have to admit that the show was given the respect it deserved. The Medium could of just ended like so many other canceled shows, but Glen Gordon Caron wrote a very clever ending, choosing to give us a glimpse of the Dubois family in the future. Ending the series with the cast members looking right thru the camera at their loyal fans and exiting was most appreciated. I was sobbing the following… Read more »
I am so disappointed that the show was cancelled. I was watching a show on my DVR and heard a commercial that said Series Finale; I kept replaying it to make sure that it was not saying season finale. I am hopful that another network will pick it up so we can continue to enjoy the Dubois family. As for the final ending, I thought it was great, it showed how much in love they were and they waited a lifetime to see each other again.
I was very disappointed and depressed over the finale of Medium. As a fan from the beginning, I also looked forward to watching it every week. It was a show with a heart – except the last episode! What a cruel ending for this wonderful show! What happened? The finale was supposed to be May 17th. For some unknown reason(s) 9 additional episodes were scrapped and the 2nd to last episode and the finale was rushed and slapped together. The writers not only killed Joe, the wonderful father role model and romantic husband, who was the glue that held this… Read more »
Well said!
I was very, very, very disappointed with this episode. What were they thinking to end it this way? I found it to be very disrespectful to the show and to the real-life people on which the characters are based. I always thought the episodes were based on their lives?? Obviously not as they are all alive and well and living in Arizona. I agree with Howie, I am going to pretend this episode never happened and Alison and Joe went on to live happily ever after, just as they have in real life!