NBC’s “Medium” and ABC’s “Supernanny”- Lauren
The article that I am writing my journal entry on is a commentary by Nancy Franklin on NBC’s “Medium” and ABC’s “Supernanny.” I have never seen “Medium” before, but I have seen “Supernanny” a couple of times. The article did not make me want to see “Medium” because it had quite a bit of negative opinions toward the show. The few positive comments it made did not make up for all the bad remarks that it already gave. The show’s main character is based on a real person with the same name; this caught my eye at first because I like true stories, but this was about the only thing that attracted me. The story plot is that the main character interacts with dead people and helps solve crimes, which doesn’t sound overly appealing to me. The article goes on to describe the relationship between the main character and her husband. The husband seems to be very passive towards his wife. He never gets upset when she is always coming home incredibly late and he never cares when they are having a normal conversation and she snaps at him. I think this would be aggravating to watch because you just want to get this person to stand up for themselves once in awhile. On the other hand, I would be very interested in watching “Supernanny” again. I have only seen it maybe two times, but I enjoyed it and thought that the Nanny did a good job controlling the kids. I think the principle behind the show is good as well because it helps show parents what they are doing wrong so that they can try to fix it. At the end of the two episodes that I saw, the nanny had helped a lot and the kids were much better behaved.
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