Rescue Mediums

There is so much wrong with this program that I don't know where to begin. The narrator is desperately bad. He has an insanely nasally voice, it grates firstly at your patience, then at your sanity.

As if these absurd television mediums weren't bad enough, this program adds the element of having to rescue the souls. What a ridiculous concept. Why would 2 very middle aged women be of any help to dead people from across the world? The fact this program even exists is irritating in itself.

They assert themselves with such confidence in their farcical abilities. As quoted by the great Carl Sagan: "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence". The claims presented here are very extraordinary indeed, however the evidence is non existent. These 2 women are as far from Sagan as you can get.

To top it off they sometimes end the episode with a 'joke'. The episode I just watched had one of these 'jokes', which was actually a riddle. But they acted as though it was a joke. What on earth were the writers thinking!

Truly, astonishingly, breathtakingly bad. If I ever had doubts that the death of television is nigh, they have been well and truly concreted after seeing the torturous cesspool that is 'rescue mediums'.

After spending an entire evening binge watching this series straight through (which resulted in a horrible urinary tract infection)only a quote by Pedro Almodovar could correctly summarize my feelings for such a great representation of cinematic excellence: "Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and loneliness." Overall this show is the culmination of everything I wished a true-life paranormal documentary would be. For one thing, you'll actually get to see the apparitions and such like. The stories are engaging and original. Spine tingling suspense! Jackie and Allison (the Rescue Mediums) have Australian accents and obviously have a long resume of rescuing spirits using a variety of concrete and observable tactics, such as the use of crystal caves and mind jails. The bumpers and cut scenes use terrifying and realistic blue colorization to represent the spirits, while always maintaining a character-base of no more than 2 spirits. I appreciate that Allison and Jackie ignore and omit other characters while trapping spirits in the crystal caves, as viewers could quickly become overwhelmed with a "too complex" story-line.

The various subtle puns peppered throughout the dialogue merely add flavor and sustenance to what is already a feature packed program. They even make disturbing premonitions beforehand about their mission for each episode. These premonitions are actually scary accurate, and usually accompanied by some form of true to life, psychic drawings or diagrams. All of which artfully complements the ghastly on screen action.

In summary, this show demonstrates that the career of medium is in fact credible and lucrative. I only hope that the work placed on this show bleeds through and provides a good "role model" for similar shows lacking in quality and fan-base. In the meantime, I'll be watching and re-watching, analyzing and, hopefully, learning to apply its lessons to my own life.

This is a silly show with little to no substance--each episode is no more than twenty minutes in length and with the opening, closing and other time-wasters stuffed into each one the actual time spent on each visit adds up to about 5 minutes of screen time. The fact that so little time is devoted to the showing of the visits seems to suggest that the women are too dull to carry the show themselves without a bunch of extra things added to pad the show and give the illusion of them being quirky. The 'psychic drawings' are often laughably awful and rarely connect with anything going on--it's simply an attempt at trying to fill time and give a 'spooky' vibe at the beginning and then ignored later. Overall not worth much unless you want to watch what is possibly the dullest 'ghost' show to ever have existed.

Having read former Spiritualist Medium Ralph Gasson's book, The Challenging Counterfeit, which includes data on 'rescue work', one sees that, much as the general public don't like the idea of Christianity being correct, they are less challenged by the idea of there being souls who might simply need a little help after death to leave earth's domain.

In Spiritualism one or more mediums can come into a 'haunted' house, hold a Home Circle séance, and get their guide spirit to talk to & advise the belligerent and/or confused ghost, attracted by their love rays, to take the opportunity to depart to evolve on the spiritual planes. But, Gasson said, a successful rescue is no more than demons walking away laughing at human gullibility and spiritual black wool pulled over eyes.

The sincerity of such psychics is good though misguided, deceived & deceiving, since the spirits are not human but fallen spirits, demons, seeking to mislead people from true light. This reduces the series to one of deception, a spiritual contamination of the mind with nothing to recommend it unless it causes some to at least see that there are spiritual realities to ponder: perhaps with Ivan Karamazov they will ponder that if there is a devil there is God too.

Some folks believe that a haunting is a complicated problem of delusionality that links an observer to a place that contains unknown residue from a prior occupant.

That is not this show -- where ghosts are sweet and funny and accommodating, and a good time is had by all as mother birds lovingly eject the dead fledgling from the nest, and it happily takes wing.

Reality is never as insane as this show, but it is far more interesting.