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CDB Entry: Location: Why "Medium" is Extra Small

Mon, 07 Feb 2005 22:04:02 -0700

NBC's "hit show" Medium is about a psychic who is helping solve cases in what is purported to be Phoenix, Arizona. I believe it is the "Phoenix, near Burbank". It looks like they are not wasting any money on location...

comment by: Reagan

Mon, 21 Feb 2005 22:48:14 -0700

I would like to comment on the post left about the show Medium. There are palm trees in Phoenix. Actually, there are more palm trees in Phoenix than there are cacti. The cactus is definately everywhere outside of Phoenix, but not so much in the city! Just because we are a desert city doesn't mean that cacti is our only vegetation!

comment by: Alan Levine

Tue, 22 Feb 2005 07:33:29 -0700

I think you missed the point, Reagan-- I was not writing about vegetation, but the lack of any scene location shooting on the show that place it in the setting where the story takes place.

And I know what the streets look like here because I live less than a mile from the "intersection of Miller and Chaparral" that was the line in the show that prompted me to write. I do not need a lecture about the vegetation here.

The point is that to someone from Rhode Island or North Dakota, the stree scenes of plam tree lined avenues may pass for Phoenix,. but I have not seen anything as background visuals in the show that I recogniize, do you?