Warning: Playing this game while binge watching 'Medium' will lead to intoxication!
The Challenge: Take a drink every time someone says "I don't know what to tell you"
It's either amazingly lazy writing or the show runners are hellbent on getting us schnockered.
If you're looking for a lightning-fast black-out, start at the first episode of any season, watch the first 3 minutes of each - code word is "dream". But that's way too easy...
Enjoy!
I'm dying, because I was literally just thinking 'drinking game: every time someone says "I don't know what to tell you..."
Problem is the more aware you are of it the worse it seems to get.
Why, writers. Why.
And then sometimes they mix it up. "I don't know what you want to hear", "I don't know what to say" and it's like an earworm. What the hell were they thinking? How does no actor say "I think I've said this 66 times this season".
Take a drink every time the DA says " Alison, that doesn't make any sense"
shareThe thread is a scream, but how would the show manage without those expressions? Not easy to think of alternative expressions. But why does she have to say "Mr. District Attorney, cannot she say "Mr. Devalos" at least once?
shareOh my God! I almost died when I saw this! I started noticing that Lee was saying that A LOT, when watching episodes at random. Once I decided to start from the very beginning I notice a clear pattern.
Mostly, at the beginning, it seemed like Devalos was always saying it ("I don't know what to tell you Allison. You may have dreamed that this woman was murdered but I can assure you she is very much alive and well.") then it was Lee, then it was Joe ("I don't know what to tell you Al. Sometimes a dream is just a dream...") and finally Allison herself said it. ("Well, I don't know what to tell you, Lee... It's what I saw. What I dreamed.")
A doctor who examined Marie (I think) even said it! I'm up to the 5th season on HULU and I'm surprised that I haven't taken the time to keep an "I don't know what to tell you" count!
Why haven't I done it? I don't know what to tell you...share
You will die from alcohol poisoning if you take a drink every time Allison flips out and looks at Joe with an exasperated look on her face because he isn't doing something to stop her dream from happening.
Or take a drink every time she says "don't ask me how I know"
Or every time Allison creates a mess and cries as if the world is against her.
Take a drink every time Allison glares and rolls her eyes and walks away from Devalos after he tells her he simply cannot arrest someone for murder when they have no dead body and no evidence of a crime other than Allison's dream.
That is good for one or two drinks per episode.
Drink every time anyone says to Allison, "Are you okay?" and she replies, "I'm fine!"
Or, "What's wrong?" and she replies, "Nothing."
Also, about anything: "It doesn't make any sense."
ETA. Another one: every time Allison says, "How could I have been (so) wrong?!"
Still more: "I don't understand."
"What are you taking about?"
And BTW what's up with Allison, Scanlon, and Devalos always calling each other in the middle of the night? Doesn't happen in other police shows.