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Maiya 2022-09-30 13:33:08

At the beginning, I watched it on TV. The Italian TV station was broadcasting this American drama. The translation was good. I never liked sitting in front of the TV on time and waiting to watch the TV show, so I downloaded it all. I don't know why the source of such a beautiful American TV series is very few, and the downloading is not so slow.
Since I was a child, I have always liked psychic things. Due to the influence of various movies, TV shows, and psychic books, psychics have always been a mysterious identity, especially female psychics. She must have had a vision in the sky when she was born. She wanted to come and be alone. She looked charming like a vixen and was full of evil spirits. She would wear a purple robe and hold a crystal ball and tarot cards in a tent for fortune-telling. So I always wanted to be a psychic. Not only is it full of mystery, but the most important thing is to foresee the future and avoid all kinds of troubles.
Allison in this play does not have the psychic feeling of psychics in general movies and TV shows. She is just an ordinary woman. She has a very good personality and a sense of justice, but she is not perfect. She looks good but she can’t be said to be very beautiful. She has a good job but she is not particularly good. No one will look at it when she walks in the crowd. She glanced. She is not a witch in a robe, nor a vixen all over her body. Except for the identity of the psychic, she is just an ordinary person, just like any of us.
In contrast, her husband Joe is perfect. He is tall and handsome, smart and hardworking, has a good job, is a scientist, and has such an easygoing and patient personality. He is full of responsibility to his family and loves and embraces his wife. This is simply perfect. Probably everyone thinks that Joe is too pitiful when watching this American TV show. Allison is often awakened by nightmares. This is inherently unchangeable, but Joe is also awakened by screaming almost every day, and then even Hold her to comfort her and continue to fall asleep, sometimes get up at night to discuss her nightmares with his wife, and sometimes deal with a wife who is possessed by a ghost. I have to make breakfast for the children in the morning and sometimes send them to school. I have to focus on my own scientific research during the day and take care of the three children to eat and sleep at night. And not only does he not tire of such a busy life, but he loves it. There are quarrels and troubles, but this is a life full of warmth and love.
I can completely imagine that without a good man like Joe, a good husband, Allison’s life would be very tragic. She would be troubled by her psychic abilities. She would be awakened by nightmares at night and no one would be comforted. No one could fully understand her and help. She will be a completely different life, different from others, it can be said to be a tragic life. But with a good husband who loves her deeply, a good boss and colleagues who have a sense of justice and trust her completely, she can also be a very happy ordinary woman.
Some people may think that the protagonists of this play are too poor and life-oriented, but this is what I love. The psychic can also be an ordinary happy woman with a child and a husband, rather than a tragic figure who lives alone in the legend. The case in the drama also gave me a lot of shocks. An ambitious poor man acted for decades for a trust fund of tens of millions, and finally killed his wife who loved him so much. There are young boys who have been willing to be the favorites of the Senate for many years in order to develop in the political arena. In order to obtain his wife's inheritance, there is a surgeon who plasticizes Xiaosan into his wife's appearance and then kills his wife. It's all for money, all for status, even if they are really successful, what can they do. They are all more successful than the Allison family, richer and more advanced, but maybe only an ordinary family like Allison can get long-term peace and happiness.

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  • Allison Dubois: How can you say that?

    Joe Dubois: I move my lips, I push out air. There's nothing to it.

  • Joe's Dad: I'll be damned if I know what my son sees in you.

    Allison Dubois: It's okay. You already are damned.