Having weathered a slight sophomore slump, creator-executive producer Glen Gordon Caron's Medium returns to DVD with its third and arguably best season. As ever, Patricia Arquette's lead performance as Allison DuBois, the medium/psychic whose visions of murderers, serial killers, and such make her an indispensable (and, in this season, controversial) part of the Phoenix district attorney's office, leads the way. But Medium also continues to evolve. Season Two's increased emphasis on Allison's home life with husband Joe (Jake Weber) and their three daughters (Sofia Vassilieva as Ariel, Maria Lark as Bridgette, and toddler Miranda Carabello as Marie) sometimes lessened a story's dramatic impact, but not this time. More and more, we see that the mixed blessing that is Allison's "gift" (it's one thing to have dreams that help solve vicious crimes, but quite another to be what she calls "a walking carnival trick," haunted by frightful, violent nightmares that aren't always what they seem to be) has been passed on to her children, and in some unusual ways.

In "Four Dreams," the two-parter that opens the season, Bridgette dreams what her mother dreams--except the child's visions take the form of cartoons; meanwhile, "Mother's Little Helper" finds Ariel and Allison seeing the same visions from very different points of view. Joe, too, is increasingly fleshed out. The role of the spouse who struggles to understand but can't really get what his partner is going through is a tough one, but Joe's harrowing experience as a hostage is an important sub-plot throughout the final seven episodes, the last three of which (a triple-header, if you will, as all three involve a serial killer whose grisly m.o. earns him the nickname "the Recapitator") feature Neve Campbell and Jason Priestley in recurring roles. Of course, this is hardly a typical police procedural; the Law & Orders and CSIs of the world cover that ground. Any TV show helmed by Moonlighting creator Caron will have its share of eccentric touches. Thus we get episodes like "The One Behind the Wheel" (Allison is possessed by a mouthy, repugnant crime victim, but Joe insists she pretend to be herself so as not to freak out the kids) or "Better Off Dead," an amusing and touching tale of a ghost struggling to accept his fate. Overall, though it has its weaknesses, Medium remains one of TV's most eminently watchable series. Bonus material includes deleted scenes, a few featurettes, and occasional commentary tracks. --Sam Graham

As others have said this is an excellent series and I strongly recommend it to all those who like sci-fi shows.
With this post I just wanted to specify that there are six discs and not one, as stated above, and that there are 4 more audio tracks (French, German, Spanish and Italian) plus ten language subtitles.

not your run of the mill fantasy but realistic.
every episode has its own bit of twist.
very good series and waiting for others.

I love the Medium series, they are not the typical mainstream TV viewing, which appeals to the eccentric in me. The characterisation just grows and grows with Alison's family becoming more and more involved in her paranormal yet believable world. I bought the first two collections after finding the first series tucked away on a graveyard slot (no pun intended)on the BBC - as though they weren't quite sure what to do with it. Their waywardness with series four is getting me a little concerned that they may be considering dropping it. I hope not.
If you want a detective story with a hint of the supernatural, wrapped around a family drama then this is for you. My description sounds so prosaic but the series isn't. Series three has a major explosion of plot at the end which leaves the family's life almost in tatters. The reality of the media coming to terms with a medium in the DA's office leaves you eager for series four.