October 24, 2011
TLC has a lousy show about a psychic housewife from Long Island. I have not seen it but how could it not be lousy?
Long Island Medium stars a woman who, to put it kindly, is just what you think of when you think “Long Island housewife.” The premise is that she has a normal Long Island housewife life, goes Long Island housewife grocery shopping, works out at the Long Island housewife gym, whatever, and BAM! PSYCHIC FLASH! -the yenta somehow gets an insight into the life of some random stranger whom she has to accost on the street and annoy.
Who came up with the title “Long Island Medium”? What kind of a boring, unimaginative name is that? I can only imagine the rejected names- “Medium from Long Island” and “The Long Island Medium.”
As I said, I have not seen this show, but I have seen the commercials.
The most amazing one goes like this. She is in a gym (and she can use a few more squat thrusts if you know what I mean) and some other woman tells her to use her mystic mojo on some guy across the room. He’s a fireman and she asks him if something bad ever happened to him. The guy is a fireman. A New York City fireman. See where this is going?
The fireman breaks down and in tears says that “I was supposed to be at work on 9/11…”
Get it? She went up to a New York City fireman around the 10th anniversary of the WTC tragedy and asked him if anything bad ever happened to him? I’m no psychic but I could have predicted that answer.
And – BAM! PSYCHIC FLASH! I am getting a vision! I think that something bad has happened to you too! Tell me, oh reader, has anything bad ever happened to you? Yes? I knew it!
Yeah, get the point? Go up to anyone and ask a cold, open-ended question and see if damn, you aren’t psychic too. It helps if they already think you are a psychic and are ready to believe whatever you say.
PSYCHIC: “I am getting a strong feeling, a woman who died, she was close to you…”
RUBE: “Yes, yes, oh yes….” breaks into sobs.
PSYCHIC: “I sense it is your mother.”
RUBE’S MOTHER: “I’m sitting right here.”
PSYCHIC: “A grandmother, perhaps?”
RUBE: “OH MY GOD! My grandmother! How did you know?”
ME: “Hey tool, ask any adult about a dead relative and the odds are really good it is a parent or grandparent.”
It doesn’t take Criswell to predict that this show sucks.
Mr. Blog's Tepid Ride 
I so wish I could watch this… 😛
(by the way, pointy shoes and square fingernails make my libido disapper faster than a ghost in the sunlight)
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I often go out of my way to find an unflattering picture but in this case they were all unflattering.
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She looks like a wishing troll doll with a different hair – style, a boob – job, & a somewhat trampy outfit. 😉
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There’s a lot about that pictures that makes my libido disappear!
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If they are so desperate for shows that they have crap like that, they should just bring back Addams Family and F-Troop and shows like that and the IQ of the country will go up.
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Total agreement. I just got a new cable channel and I have been watching GREAT old shows like Jack Benny, Alfred Hitchcock presents, and Adam-12.
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Addams Family, F – Troop, MASH, Marcus Welby, M.D., ANYTHING but the dreck they show nowadays. Exceptions : NCIS, House MD, Bones, Burn Notice ( Hey, it’s got Bruce Campbell, for Heaven’s sake ), In Plain Sight,
One reality show I liked was ” ODDITIES ” – Kinda like ” Friday the 13th -The Series ” without the cursed objects & with eccentrics. ComCast dropped Discovery Science 2 or 3 months ago.
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SyFy had a series called ” Mary Knows All “, ” Mary Knows Best ” or some such title, w / the title character being a loud – mouthed, bossy psychic woman on Long Island. It didn’t even last half a season before they yanked the plug. No wonder – The promos showed her as just downright ABRASIVE, & I couldn’t even stand THEM, much less an actual episode.
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Oh man, I remember that! I never watched it because it looked like crap.
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OK – The kicker. How come she couldn’t tell that the show was going to be a piece of crud that didn’t even last a season, if she was TRULY PSYCHIC ? 😉
Imponderable.
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Crud or not, (and it is crud) she saw the cash they offered her. Green cash trumps brown crud every time.
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Yep. TV technology has gotten hi – tech & unusually fantastic, but a lot of the contemporary shows are 24 K cow -& – horse – flop. Which is why my tv serves double – duty as an extra lamp with white noise.
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As a rule, I don’t put much stock into a review of something the the reviewer has no first-hand knowlege of…
your snotty, too-cool-for-school attitude isn’t giving you much credibility either.
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I have to agree with you. I would not take this review seriously either. But you are not at NewYorkTimes.com or even TVGuide.com, you are at a site run by a guy who reviews things sight unseen with a snotty attitude. I’m not sure what you think this site is, but I am not striving for credibility here. I write fart jokes.
But to be fair, Long Island Medium is a piece of shit and no matter how many episodes you watch, I am still right.
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You shouldn’t review a show you have not seen.
@Daniel – it’s on for a second season, so you also don’t know what you’re talking about.
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That is an old review and I have seen it since then. The show is a total joke.
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