Long Island Medium

I have to admit that I'm not a 'believer' so this show seems to me to be a scripted series with excellent researchers carefully checking up on her 'clients' before their appearances. It's even more unrealistic when she does readings for celebrities whose life details are even easier to find. I do like her, having seen her in person twice where she seemed extremely pleasant and accommodating to her fans. However, I think her gimmick is phony baloney and appeals only to those who truly believe in the after-life and desperately want to reconnect to their deceased loved ones.

Don't support this. This woman is taking advantage of people's feelings and emotions. It's basiclly abusive.

The show itself is watchable. Once you realize she simply cold reads or cheats to come up with information or uses plants it's despicable. Then editing works it's magic. Shows you the good stuff where it seems she's connecting with someone. If you don't know what cold reading is then you should youtube: Theresa Caputo exposed as fake and it explains it quite well. Cold reading's been done for a long time and she's a liar. Imagine basing your career off lying about helping people and connecting with their loved ones. Most of these cold readers rationalize it by thinking they're giving comfort even if it's not true. Well I'm sure she can rationalize it to herself when she's raking in the dough. If this doesn't bother you then go ahead watch it.

I've felt attracted to the paranormal ever since I had my first experience, as a child. And I have seen my share of stuff. I even live in a house that was apparently occupied by some ghost. Someone came and get "it" to leave. So after that, I don't think is impossible that she could be a medium. I don't know what's involved in the making, and how they might follow her all day with the cameras. But from the first time I saw the show, I thought it was fun and weird. Then out of curiosity, I continued watching episode after episode, and I came to understand the format, and even to love it. You get laughs, emotions, etc, plus it really seems so natural. Any how, it's a good show to watch. Along with that I have watched similar shows, such as Medium and Ghost Whisperer, My Haunted house and My Ghost Stories. Check them out.

A woman makes money by conning people, seems like a good TV show. I have sympathy for those that think such cons are in their best interests but when it comes to the internet there really should be no pardon for his kind of crap. What kind of person do you have to be to make a living doing this? I get that these people are professionals when it comes to seeming nice and likable, that's their job after all, but in 2014 how the hell are people still buying it?

Apparently I can't pad this review out with junk like the show does most of its episodes so I'll leave it here and hope it's enough.

Sigh.