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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Keep it real man isn’t that what is all about
Why you can’t handle the truth Allison was a **** actor and always will be wasted money I make movies and I will never get her to do a scene even if it’s a road cleaner No way she can’t act and also she complains too much is no one with me nah then u lot will never under stand movie life that’s why xfiles is going to be the best seller again no way medium could do that at first fort it was good then I starting getting **** and shiter couldn’t stand it after any ways lets see… Read more »
I was heart broken that Joe died in the final episode … they were a great couple … it was sad to see it end.
Joe did not die. I don’t know why they deviated from Allison’s actual life like that and did pure fiction for the last episode.
Joe is still very much alive.
Joe and Allison are still married and they still live in Phoenix.
i was sad to see the television series end; i enjoyed this show because of the marriage and family aspect, most shows are not family oriented and set realistically and this one was. I hated seeing Joe die, wish they wouldve ended it some other way . Hope they bring the show back somehow if possible.
Last episode was sudden, emotional, probably as good as it could be under the circumstances — but what happened to that Mexican Bad Guy? Allison got him off and got away with it??????? Humph!
Medium never should have ended. I am re-watching the series on Netflix and it was the best show ever and the actors were very talented. The crap that they put on television today is total garbage and full of bad acting.
Sad to see it end with no possibility of coming back.
They can bring it back, another dream to wake up from. bring back medium with the original cast one of the best shows ever.
I enjoyed the show and I felt the children and Joe were portrayed very close to real people. Allison’s character to me was grossly annoying for several reasons. Here is the short list of said reasons: Allison’s dreams occur at times very convenient for the plot so much that by season two it’s cliché, Allison is constantly wrong about parts or entire dreams yet has trouble accepting this far into the series, Allison frequently recommends legal action based on incomplete dreams instead of waiting until the dream is complete to announce the killer, Patricia Arquette can not fake cry to… Read more »
I also finished watching Medium on net flix bringing over a few weeks. I had saw some during its airing on CBS, but was excited to find it all on Net Flix! Could nit believe the abrupt ending, going through withdrawal it was such a believable family unit. Wish it could be pulled together again, sigh! Wonderful job folks!
My husband and I never watched the show when it originally aired. We started watching Medium on Netflix a month ago. We really enjoyed Allison and Joe’s love for each other and how they interacted with their children. Their love was so beautiful and if that was a soulmate is they nailed that concept! My husband and I related to their love story and Joe reminded me a lot of my husband even with his career. We didn’t feel the 7th season had a real strong storyline and it could be partly because it was the final season and their… Read more »
I felt the same as you about the relationship between Joe and Allison. I don’t like watching the crime scenes but Joe reminds me so much of my husband. It broke my heart to watch Allison cry when Joe told her he was really dead. It broke my heart when she cried, ” Who is going to talk to me?” She didn’t think she could live without him. Joe’s personality was so much like my husband’s that I cried to watch him die. I cried for Allison because I lost my husband to sudden heart attack but I never got… Read more »
Doubtful that you will see this as its been a long while since the comment was written but Im so sorry for your loss. May you be well and blessed in your life
I never watched this show when it was on tv. I recently “binge watched” over the past few weeks, the entire 7 seasons. I think the last episode was a major disappointment. How many shows before this have used the dream theme to wrap up years of a previously good show? The answer is too many. There was Rosanne, who claimed the entire 9th season was a dream (because it sucked so bad). There was one of those night time soaps I never watched, I think it was Dallas, although it could just as well have been Dynasty. My point… Read more »
The last episode where in the spirit of medium. But I have som questions:
1. What happend whit Bridget, Lee and Devalos?
2. Why did Allison turn into her young self, that have never happened in the show before?
3. What was that last line: The real Allison and Joe lived whit there family in Southernsomething.. Did Joe not die? Did they in death live that life?
Please, somebody tell me the answers to this question.. I´m left with more questions then I started with…
The 7 year look forward in her dream was Joe giving her a message how life would be without him. So at that point Bridget was probably in college and Marie was the only child left at home. Joe did actually die in the plane crash. The 7 year look forward was a dream Allison was actually having not a reality, Joe was trying to send her a message in death that she would move on and be a layer and have a good life. But Allison was manipulating the dream and making it that he was alive (at that… Read more »
this show is based on a true story… there really is a Allison and a Joe and they have 3 children. They are all alive. that’s what the show meant by in the ending credits.
well we know that Allison is a great grandmother so i’m assuming that Bridget it married and has children.
Allison probably turned into her young self because of Joe….but honestly who knows its a show
Yes they are all alive and still living in Phoenix.
Allison is a red head now.iHGtI
The show was based on a real family who live in the southwest. I’m not sure if it is in Arizona, but there is a real Allison and Joe Dubois…they also have three girls who also are mediums to some extent.
You are correct.
They are real, Joe is very much alive and they still live in Phoenix.
It is said that when you die you return to the form when you were the happiest,so I guesss this is the time before Joe died.. that’s why Alison turned into her younger self.. the same age as Joe.. God it felt like my heart is ripped out reaally hated this ending!! They should have ended up together,the ending should be happy since the whole series there was drama.. This woman survived anything how could they take her husband away..her one and only support.. this was nothing but a cruel endng and I hated every second of it!!!
Just watched the first ep to the last over the last 5/6 weeks and just finished the last ep and could not stop crying (i would of cried no matter what, I hate last episodes). I get why they killed Joe off but :'(
I just put friends on to make me happier. until i get to that finale then Ill be sad again.
WHY JOE !!!!!!!!!!!
That Joe died he was a great dad and husband
I LOVED Medium more than almost any show on TV ever. And that’s over many, many years. I have no idea why good shows don’t last and trash continues to be shoved down our thoats. The last episode of Medium was fine, very touching but it should not have been the last episode. So many people loved this show. Why did it have to end?
So many people ask why the show had to end. The answer to this seems painfully obvious. 1. The show runs out of ideas and this one was already rehashing their episodes at season 5, which is why they got cancelled by NBC before moving to CBS for their last 1 and 1/2 seasons. 2. Children grow up. Actors move on to better careers. 3. Everything that was once new gets old and eventually falls out of favor. It’s absurd to think that any TV series is going to last forever. Did you really want to see Allison and Joe… Read more »