February 13, 2005
Numb3rs & Medium
for both shows.
Numb3rs comes on at 10pm Friday nights on CBS.
Medium comes on at 10pm Monday nights on NBC.
Because I'm an old lady who has to be at work at 630am, I tape both shows and watch them at some point later during the week or on the weekend.
NUMB3RS
Rob Morrow .... Don Eppes
David Krumholtz .... Charlie Eppes
Judd Hirsch .... Alan Eppes
Alimi Ballard .... David Sinclair
Sabrina Lloyd .... Terry Lake
Peter MacNicol .... Dr. Larry Fleinhardt
Synopsis: Don and Charlie Eppes are brothers. Don is an FBI agent. Charlie is a Professor of Mathematics at the ficticious CalSci University (CalTech really, but they film it at USC - WooT!!). Don, together with David Sinclair and Terry Lake (with whom Don had a relationship with in the past) work on cases and they occasionally bring in Charlie as a consultant to help use math to solve the crimes.
I admit that I mainly like this show because I am a Math & Science Fan Girl. I like math and science even though I'm horribly bad at both subjects.
The acting in this show is superb. And how can it not be with those excellent actors? I missed the very first episode, which probably had some introductory information that I might have needed but overall, I think I've got the gist of what's what and who's who.
The plots are varied and keep me interested all the way through. What I really like is that the Genius Math Brother isn't always right and that math, while helpful, doesn't necessarily save the day all the time.
MEDIUM
Patricia Arquette .... Allison Dubois
Miguel Sandoval .... D.A. Manuel Devalos
Jake Weber .... Joe Dubois
Synopsis: Allison Dubois is a suburban wife and mother of 3 who sees dead people. She consults for the Phoenix District Attorney's office, occasionally helping them out on cases.
What I love about this show most are the flaws of the characters. Allison's visions aren't always correct. Her husband tries to be supportive but it's hard having a wife who wakes up in the middle of the night from nightmares every night. Her 2 daughters fight with each other, like normal siblings (the youngest daughter is still a baby and can't speak yet). It's all very real. So when the supernatural stuff gets thrown in to the mix, it all seems perfectly natural.