The event was a Discovery Channel Whale Wars viewing party. According to the caption, it was held at a “private residence.” You don’t really see Weber hitting the red carpet much, so this is kind of a random, funny event to see him at. However, it’s Jake Weber in a suit. How can you argue with that?

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Though he ends up trying meditation in the end, he treats it as though its a secret drug problem or bizarre sex fetish that he needs to make up elaborate stories about in order to hide. In the end though, I like how his story, which really seemed to be tied up in the main plot of Allison being able to see how long people have left to live, ended up being much lighter. Rather than a portent of an early demise, Joe’s dad was merely giving him a much-needed leg up in the corporate world.

As for the main plot, it was a pretty solid episode. Lee has been relegated to a background player for the majority of the episodes so far this season, so it was nice to see him front-and-center for a change. We all saw the promo for the episode that shows Lee with a “1″ on his head, so when he shows up at the beginning with a much larger number, I was taken by surprise. Having numbers on peoples’ heads that indicate how long they have left to live is much more interesting to me when it’s fluid and dependent on circumstances.

The plot of this episode was also very fluid, which really works for this show. Suspects and motives changed throughout, but in a much more interesting way than the typical police procedural. When the Littleton brothers end up dead, everyone has to pretty much start from scratch, theory-wise. While I enjoyed the way this played out, Carver was introduced too late.

Part of the fun of watching a show like Medium is trying to guess who the killer is. If Carver had been around earlier, perhaps helping with the investigation, it would have been much more interesting when Allison has her vision about him. Again, if we had gotten to know him better, then the final scene with Allison seeing the “1″ on his forehead would have had a greater impact.

I was also disappointed in how the family aspect of Allison’s temporary gift was just glossed over with a simple, “I could never look at you or the girls.” Would it really be that easy of a decision? We don’t see Allison interacting with her kids at all during the episode, and Ariel doesn’t make an appearance anywhere. The episode would have been better served by Allison having to deal with the internal struggle of wanting to know her children are going to be okay and not wanting to find out anything bad.

Overall, it was a strong episode, but there were too many things that just sat in the back of my head and bugged me for me to be able to call it “great.” However, the opening scene with Joe’s dad scoffing at hybrid vehicles and extolling the virtues of American-made gas-guzzling SUVs, is especially hilarious given Allison’s newest purchase.

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Medium came in a close second to Ghost Whisperer, which had 8.43 million viewers and 2.0 in the 18-49 group, but beat CBS’ 10:00 show, Numb3rs, in the 18-49 demo, with its 7.84 million total viewers and a 1.7. However, ABC’s airing of Shrek the Third, means that victory didn’t come to CBS as easily as it usually does.

In fact, although CBS easily beat ABC in total viewers with 8.02 million vs. 6.86, they actually tied in the all-important 18-49 demographic, with 1.9. In fact, while Ghost Whisperer was able to stave off Shrek the Third in the 8:00 hour, Medium couldn’t beat it in the key demo, and ABC’s 20/20 fared better than Numb3rs at 10:00.

While it’s not the best ratings news in the world, there is something to be said for consistency, and Medium actually fared better last night than I thought it would. I figured that the television competition along with the fact that two big movies were released yesterday, New Moon and Precious, would keep viewers away. However, Medium showed once again how it’s made it six seasons: its loyal fans are always there.

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As always, I hope you can join us for the open mic, but if you can’t, feel free to use the comment section of this post as a discussion thread. I want to hear your thoughts on the episode!

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When the pair met in 1987, Cage proposed to Arquette that day. She, not being completely insane, declined. So to prove he was serious, Cage offered to go on a quest to prove his love. Probably because she didn’t take him seriously, Arquette told him to bring her the following items: “an autograph from Catcher in the Rye author JD Salinger, a ‘Bob’s Big Boy’ statue and a Tibetan wedding dress.” Remarkably, he found all of these things for her, although she didn’t end up agreeing to marry him until 1995.

Kind of makes you wonder if Thomas Jane had to bring anything special to the table, doesn’t it?

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The official post will be up later, and as always, we’ll be having a discussion thread as well, if you can’t make it. Hope to see you there!

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Then, the more I looked at them, the more they seemed familiar…

Don’t they look a lot like the blue sunglasses that Arquette donned when she played Alabama Whitman in True Romance?

In fact, a lot of people online do in fact refer to the sunglasses she wears in the movie as Wayfarers. Now, whether they are actual Wayfarers or simply generics styled to look like them (which is probably the case, as I couldn’t see either of these characters spending $130 on sunglasses), the two photos are quite reminiscent of each other, no?

Of course, Allison does generally wear a lot more clothing than Alabama did.

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• The Augusta Chronicle calls calls the GMC placement in “New Terrain” “perhaps the most egregious case of product placement yet seen on TV.” Heh.
• MTV wonders if Rihanna’s new video for “Russian Roulette” is an homage to the Patricia Arquette film, Lost Highway.
• Starpulse recaps last week’s episode, “Once in a Lifetime.”
• Brett Love reviews last week’s episode over at CliqueClack. He also stopped by for our Open Mic.

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Her husband, Joe DuBois, says that Allison has always seemed to know people better and has been able to predict what other people are going to do. Her oldest daughter also says that she can’t get away with anything because her mom always knows. To me, that just sounds like Allison is super-perceptive and good at reading people, but who am I to say?

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[You can find the promo pics here, and the press release here.]

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