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 think thought that Medium was brilliant; I’ve watched all the series and would have loved there to have been more but I guess it had to end at some time. Brilliant acting by all the cast members – thanks so much.
Good series, but all good things come to an end.
I loved Medium & have just finished watching it again. Was disappointed with the ending especially with them breaking all the rules with Alisons ghost ! Throughout the show you are trying ld how you die is how you stay, you can’t change your appearance. Yet Alison dies & is instantly 41 years younger & with different clothes 
Like the Ghost and Mrs. Muir movie. Romantic!
Love the show, and watching the late night UK re-runs; I didn’t realise it was the last episode but I was thinking I didn’t like it at all! Too dark & just odd – But the after bit was great! Best part was the (too brief) ending where the main characters have an individual sequence then goodbye, that was lovely. Sad too, as I twigged it was the last episode!
I watched this show back when it first aired, but I missed the 7th season back then, probably because it was moved to a different night. I’ve watched the whole thing now, usually one episode each week day during my lunch hour. I’ve so enjoyed this show. As for the last episode . . . I was not prepared for it to be the last, but I’m aware that the writers were surprised when the season was suddenly cut short. That was apparent in the sudden jarring sense that we had come to the end when it seemed we had… Read more »
Being English the moment I heard joe speak I knew he wasn’t American. I think that one of his parents should have been English for him to have had the accent he did. I loved his character and my husband and I cried when he realised he’d actually died. Surely this didn’t have to happen?!?….
I’m also English and Joe’s accent doesn’t seem English / un-American at all to me! I don’t think it was a great ending for a great series, too sad, & confusing :/
I cried so much when it ended even though i keep telling myself that they’re all alive and well in real life!!
All thing’s must come to an end… As a supernatural series it couldn’t have ended better. Imagine being with your soulmate forever…
Yes…
Yep. Like a few others that I see on here, I’m here in 2020, I guess we all have a lot of time on our hands this year! Just watched the finale all the way through for the first time just now and found this article after googling to find out if anyone else was as disappointed by the ending as I was. Really grown to love Medium the past two years that I’ve been watching the reruns on TV and my favorite part was the warm family in the center of all the drama and confusion they went through.… Read more »
I really love this show. I was hoping they would end the show differently. I was hoping she found her husband watch their girls become successful with their own families. I hoped she, Allison would discover her youngest daughter had the same gift and start a business to help others with their love ones who passed away.
Terrible ending for a loving couple and children who loved their father so much. My daughter’s father was a monster and other shows with monster fathers could have been justified with this ending. I loved this show and you ruined it for me.
I really liked the show but wished it had a happier ending with allison and joe both being at Ariel’s wedding and meeting their grandchildren together.
I thought this ending was brilliant. In spite of the usual dream sequences featuring in each episode, I found the‘seven years later’ scenario believable and intriguing. Lovely emotional ending that befitted the series. Most final episodes in dramas these days seem to be lazy, unimaginative pieces of writing but this one I loved.
I thought most of the shows were thought provoking however there were a few that I thought faltered. I can honestly say the last episode will always remain in my top 5 favorite finales of all time and I am not a Spring Chicken. I was most disappointed with the shows with the oldest daughter not remembering how she got married etc. Did not enjoy or understand the concept. I miss the show.
I really have enjoyed the show medium… I’ve never seen the last episode, where joe dies till my son got me Hulu. I really wished you could’ve gave joe a bigger and better send off. On other shows you have had a continue, wow he put up with ALOT!!! I really feel cheated. With this quarantine I have watched rerun rerun!!! And I can tell you right now that the show would do amazing as a come back!! Make it all a dream!!! Dallas did!!! I’d be forever loyal again!!!!
I agree. It feels like you threw this ending together. Such creativity throughout the series but this didn’t cut it. Hope you can fix it some day in a revival series.
Yes, rubbish ‘end’, & I’d be happy with a Dallas ‘oops it was all a dream’ too if they’d just carry on! – I re-watch the other episodes, but I don’t want to see that finale again tbh. ‘he put up with ALOT!’ – So did Alison, so did everyone, & so does everyone irl who ever gets married, it’s part of the deal – Except the fickle who can’t handle it (& those who prefer being alone like me!)- Joe is great but he’s only like people should be, it’s those who don’t support their partner who are the… Read more »