Halloween

I had 29 Trick-or-treaters last night, which is the most I've had any year here in Phoenix. As usual I had the TV on during the festivities. There was a 'Medium' marathon on. I heard one final group come up the walk just as there was a horrific scream on the TV. The kids turned around and left without ringing the bell, so I should have had a few more.

The marathon confirmed why I liked the show in the beginning and why I quit watching it late last season. As long as the show sticks to solving crime through supernatural means, it's OK, though her powers and accuracy seem to vary wildly from week to week. I really like the soft spoken DA. But, the truly pointless arguing between the husband and wife is just torture. The only thing that changes from week to week is who is being more petty. In one of the rerun episodes last night, their daughter passively mindreads the answer to a homework problem, she changes on her paper from the answer she had worked out to the correct answer and gets accused of cheating. Husband and wife spend quite a bit of time threatening and bedazzling the teacher, but no one addresses the real issue. What should they be teaching their own daughter about living in the world? Clearly they should have let the teacher assume she was cheating, because in this case she was (just not how he thought she was), and let the girl face the consequences. There is all too much of this avoiding of issues in the series to make artificial tension in episodes.