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[shadowkat]

Hmmm...according to the news, you're the most depressed in your 40s, the big low point is 44. The reason is you start thinking about all the things you haven't accomplished or planned to achieve by now, and are overwhelmed with disappointment and frustration with yourself. In your 20's - everything is wide open and new. And your 30's? You still have time, figure things will work out. Hit 40 and you get depressed. It's apparently universial. Odd. Good news? Apparently it gets better once you reach 50, by that time you start to come to terms with what you have and haven't accomplished in life. So four more years - and I'm over the hump. Just have to frigging survive and hopefully accomplish something during them. From what I've read online? I can't tell if this is true or not.

Dead tired from work. Fell asleep on train as opposed to reading Margret Atwood's The Blind Assasin. Now just want brain dead activity. So will knit and watch comfort tv.
Been enjoying Medium which I DVR'd. Better than it used to be. I think I like it better when she isn't working for the DA, less procedural. Also Angelica Huston is fun as a desperate PI using Allison's abilities to promote herself.

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[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

Hmmm...I'm 44 and in a much better place than I was just a few years ago. Yes, there are things that I wanted to accomplish by now that I haven't, but I still have time.

What season of Medium are you watching?

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Thanks. That's comforting.

Re Medium? Ahh.. The current one. I sort of skipped last season and watched portions of the first season. The two episodes I saw just aired a few days ago on broadcast tv.

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

So...is the current season season 3?

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

I think so. I haven't been really watching it that often, so I don't really know for sure.
Last time I saw an episode was sometime in 2005, I think.

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

I've been watching it on DVD, so I never know what the current season is. I've seen seasons 1 and 2.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

You probably know more about it than I do, having seen more episodes. ;-)

It is pretty episodic in nature - so you don't really have to have seen what happened before. What I can tell you? In the episodes I watched, the DA was no longer part of the show. She was no longer working for him. Also her hubby's out of work. They sort of allude to why, but don't really explain it.

I'm thinking that must have happened last season, because I saw the second and third episode of the current season.

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

Yes, I do remember him losing his job in season two, but I forget why.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Definitely Season 3 then or at least that's my guess.

I think he's just laid-off. But what they say is there's two companies - one was Inter-Dyne which he left, and one that laid him off. Not sure if the first one fired him or if he left it for a better job? At any rate, I identified with it. First tv show I've seen that has really addressed the employment crisis.

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

Oh, I think he left the company he was at to do something independently or in a partnership or something.

[midnightsjane.livejournal.com]

Well, I am 60, and haven't found a decade yet that didn't have its ups and downs. I liked my 40's a lot more that my 30's; I'd learned some hard life lessons, and things just seemed easier. My 50's were pretty mellow, and so far 60 seems good.
My late 20s and early 30's were the years I would catagorize as the most difficult ones emotionally.

[embers-log.livejournal.com]

My younger brother died when I was 44, and that pretty much over-shadowed everything else that year (not surprisingly) so I'm not sure my experience counts (if you are taking a poll).

I'm glad you're enjoying Medium, I think it is the only struggling middle class family ever on TV (somehow only the extremely poor or the very rich/comfortably upper middle class seem to make it onto TV). And, like you, I find Angelica Huston's performance to really be wonderful. She is exploitive and yet believing, making her very layered and interesting.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

No, not really taking a poll. Although did find the responses interesting and further evidence that broad generalizations usually aren't true. People like it or not - can't be pigeon-holed. We always fall out of them. I think the news took a poll and made an assumption based on it. But polls...aren't really reliable.

Agree - Medium is sort of different. I like how Patricia Arquette is heavy set and skinny. And Jack Webb who plays her hubby, is allowed to be scruffy looking, not buff, and not pretty and is the main reason I've watched off and on, because I like the actor - have liked him since American Gothic. They feel real and somewhat comforting to watch.

The episode I just saw - was more realistic than the episodes in the first two seasons.
They dropped the unrealistic premise of her working alongside the DA without anyone questioning it. Now, she's a bit of a pariah.
And her hubby is unemployed, with the old company that either laid him off or let him go, acquiring other companies in the area - so he's unable to get a job. So topical and so true. It's one of the few tv shows on that is addressing what is really happening right now - the recession, unemployment, the struggle. Wasn't like that in the prior seasons I tried to watch it. So was surprised.

[embers-log.livejournal.com]

In 'Medium's first season both Mother & Father were working long hours, frequently having to work over time, and there would be these wonderful scenes of ordinary domestic tension: who could get their girls ready for school, who would be picking them up after school, who would pick up the dry cleaning, or fix dinner (or pick up a bucket of chicken)....

I don't think I had ever had a show that would give us these ordinary domestic scenes, not full of big fights, but just the small day to day petty stuff. It was my favorite part of the show, the ordinariness of it that seemed (to me) to help ground the fantasy aspects.

Oh it is 9pm now, I guess I'll tune in and check out the 'Lost' episode that you said was fun.

[fishsanwitt]

When I was 44, I started to learn a new profession :) so there's always hope!

[ladyhelix.livejournal.com]

"once you reach 50 ... you start to come to terms with what you have and haven't accomplished in life."

If it's any consolation - I hit this at 47, so perhaps you won't have to wait 4 more years!!

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Uh, only 40, didn't mean to imply that I was 44, so that would be...seven more years.

[ladyhelix.livejournal.com]

sorry, I really am.