I think they dropped the ball a bit and it seemed a bit all over the place. I think that season three had a great premise. Also, we see a massive time jump for Delia’s son ned, who has gone from being a kid in junior high school to being in high school. However, from here on out they seemed to have dropped that storyline altogether. Overall it’s a decent season, this is the season they could have been really pushing the Romano storyline. The entire season is about Melinda trying to figure out her family history and her dealing with the abandonment issues she developed after her father left the family when she was just nine years old. However, this season suffered like most series with the 2007 writers strike, which cut the season down to just eighteen episodes instead of the normal twenty-two episodes it would have normally have broadcasted. Season three sees Melinda Gordon facing some family secrets. Now, for a show that got nominated for 4 Primetime Emmys, they really failed to use their world in a way that reflects that. I can say they are really good at not resetting the characters with each episode, and that the consequences of what’s happened over the course of a season does tend to stick, as the story moves forward. But the way they handled the Romano storyline shows they didn’t really know what they wanted to so with it, and they didn’t have a grasp of the story itself. I understand wanting to have a slow burn for the overarching storyline, and not have it only be a serial series. Even after they introduce Jay Mohr’s character Professor Rick Payne, they really don’t progress the storyline by that much. Season two attempts to continue the Romano storyline, however again it’s unsuccessful in really bringing the dread that it's supposed to imply. It’s becomes something of an unintentional running gag. It’s an interesting choice by the writers to have Manheim’s character be such a skeptic, however after having multiple times where Manheim states her skepticism only to have something that happens that makes her believe that Hewitt’s character is telling her the truth. They show basically goes through a reboot of sorts when they introduce Camryn Manheim’s character Deila Banks, and her son Ned, who is first played by Tyler Patrick Jones and then later by Christoph Sanders. Season 2: The RebootĪfter taking a couple of episodes to wrap up Andrea’s story. They should have been building that storyline from episode one, and it really shows the lack of story planning that they only started to introduce it halfway through the season. They could have handled that in so many other ways, which would have allowed her to come back in later seasons.Īlso, the way they handled the Romano storyline was sloppy and failed to give it the punch it really needed. They didn’t have to kill off Aisha Tyler’s character Andrea Marino at the end of season one. The writing, which is generally good over the course of the season, really doesn’t come through at the end of this season. In fact, they really dropped the ball, or I should say the airplane and one of the main characters.Īfter spending all season hinting at the larger mythology for the show. However, as I look at the series critically I have to say that they didn’t do that great of a job at setting up the series in this first season. We meet most of the main players, and we get a good feel for the format, for each episode going forward. So as with any series, season one tends to be the one that sets up the series.
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