dubois_love | Medium: Season Five DVD Special Feautres

*“Script to Screen: Apocalypse … Now?” (7:56) Learn about the big earthquake-aftermath/bomb-shelter episode. Learn that the house that serves as the DuBois home exterior is located in Northridge, epicenter of a nasty and very memorable 1994 quake.

*“Curious Maria” (10:21) Chubby, precocious Maria Lark, who plays the middle daughter, interviews Caron, story editor Corey Reed, production accountant Marcus Canty, property assistant Michael Barnett, camera operator Paul Theriault, second assistant director Daniella Eisman, Patricia Arquette, executive producer Ronald Schwary, Learn a lot of cursing is undertaken within earshot of the child actors.

*“The Making of Medium: Season 5” (27:15) Learn that Patricia Arquette’s directorial debut was shot first so the actress would have adequate prep time. Learn that Miguel Sandoval is an old friend of guest star Blythe Danner. Be reminded that season five brought Kurtwood Smith’s third episode as special agent Edward Cooper. Learn that David Cubitt’s bout with flu caused him to lose about eight pounds just as he was called upon to play a five-years-younger Lee Scanlon. Learn that “corporate intuitionists” like the Tracy Pollan character really exist. Learn that the horseshoe-shaped scar on the back of Alison’s head in the season finale was modeled after that of the show’s “locations guy,” who just had a real brain tumor removed.

*“Jake and Patricia Q&A” (22:59) Jake Weber, doing something of a Charlie Rose impression, interviews his TV wife. They discuss her bizarre and mysterious laughing fits, her desire to direct, her desire to play the title role in “Jesus Christ Superstar,” her ability to hit people hard, her decision to forego old-woman prosthetics, her growing up the daughter of a struggling actor, her trick for fake crying, her early inability to realize boys were falling in love with her, her fang-like teeth and her massive breasts.