"Medium" was . . . er . . . medium
I have an interest in psychics for a writing project, so I’ve watched Medium before. “Do You Hear What I Hear?” was “medium.”
Thanks to Reba’s heads up, I had friends over, so I got to interpret the brief segments of ASL which were neither subtitled for the general public nor on closed captions. The first was one kidnapper signing “Quiet (or I’ll) hurt you.” I thought no interpretation of any sort was strange, but it was only one missed opportunity.
Allison’s sudden deafness putting her in tune with the kidnapped deaf girl, Nicole, had great potential. Allison had some neat observations about what it was like to be totally without sound. I liked the techie part where Joe used his laptop to “talk” to Allison. He then used it to interpret what was said by the detective, but of course that way too slow for the hearies (both the characters and the “listening” public) and it was shoved aside for “I’ll tell you, Joe, and you fill Allison in later.” Sorry, but reviewers are supposed to be sarcastic.
The funny thing for me was when people would flutter their hands at Allison -- and it actually seemed to improve her understanding. What a crock!
Except for some more uninterpreted signing by Nicole (the little actress did an okay job with her signs about wanting her mother and father and wanting to go home), all the stuff about deafness seemed to get shoved aside to wrap up the show.
Allison got her hearing back and everything went back to paranormal.
