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Long Island Medium
Long Island Medium title.png
Genre Reality television
Starring Theresa Caputo
Larry Caputo Jr.
Victoria Caputo
Country of origin United States
Original language English
No. of seasons 14
No. of episodes 176
Production
Running time 22 to 42 minutes
Production company Magilla Entertainment
Release
Original network TLC
Original release September 25, 2011 (2011-09-25) –
December 13, 2019 (2019-12-13)

Long Island Medium is an American reality television series starring Theresa Caputo, a self-professed medium who claims she can communicate with the dead. Much of the program, which premiered on September 25, 2011, takes place in Hicksville, New York, though it often follows Caputo as she meets with clients in other areas.

Scientific skeptics say mediumship performances are a con,[1] [2] [3] and Caputo's specific claims have been deemed fictitious by numerous critics including magician James Randi, print publications including Wired,[4] and television news programs like Inside Edition.[5] [6] The Long Island newspaper Newsday refers to her as a "mentalism performer."[7]

Synopsis [edit]

Each episode focuses on Caputo as she conducts private and group readings with both believers and skeptics. Her husband Larry and two children, Victoria and Larry Jr., have learned to live with her mediumship. In a 2011 interview, Caputo claimed she had the ability to communicate with dead people: "Things are just there. When I was younger I used to actually see images and hear things. As I got older and shut down, it has changed. Because it was frightening to see people standing there who actually weren't there."[8] [9] [10]

Reception [edit]

Scientific skeptics say mediumship performances are a con,[1] [2] [3] and that Caputo's seemingly paranormal performances are simply the result of well-known exploits like the Forer effect, cold reading, selective editing of the show, and her subjects' eagerness to believe.[4] [5] [11]

In 2012, the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) awarded Caputo its Pigasus Award for being, in its view, the "psychic" performer who fooled the greatest number of people with the least effort in the preceding year. A Pigasus award was also given to TLC for continuing to air the show.[12] In an article published by Wired Magazine the organization's founder James Randi explained why he believed shows like Long Island Medium were deceptive and potentially harmful to its participants:

Why do these pseudo-psychic spectacles bother those of us at the James Randi Educational Foundation? First, and foremost: They are not true. [...] But much more importantly to us, such performances seem to prey on people at their most vulnerable moments — those who have suffered the loss of loved ones — and these mediums use such grief to make a buck. Psychologists tell us this keeps the grieving stuck in their grief, rather than going through the natural stages of acceptance that are healthy.

—James Randi[4]

In June of that year, Caputo appeared in a commercial for Priceline.com in which she portrayed herself "connecting" with the late Priceline Negotiator character previously played by William Shatner.[13] However, this commercial has sparked controversy, since the commercial appears to make light of the Native American belief of smudging. JREF President DJ Grothe issued a statement decrying Priceline.com: "It is difficult to watch the show and not feel heartbroken for those who are desperate to hear from the departed... and even more so if they are being manipulated by a charlatan." Grothe urged the organization to have their new spokeswoman take the James Randi Million Dollar Challenge and prove her paranormal claims.[14]

Inside Edition examined Caputo's claims of being able to talk to the dead and found them lacking as she performed live, saying they "watched her strike out time and again." Mark Edward, who used to portray himself as a medium, gave his opinion that Caputo does not have supernatural powers and explained several common techniques she could be using to pretend to have such abilities. She responded in a statement: "I respect and understand skeptics. I'm not trying to prove anything to anyone, that's not why I do what I do. I feel, and have been told by my clients, that my gift has really helped them, and that's all that matters to me."[5]

Ron Tebo, proprietor of the YouTube debunking channel SciFake,[15] has appeared on numerous programs saying Caputo engages in several forms of deception, including sending staff members to interview audience members in advance in order to be able to acquire knowledge to claim communication with the dead.[16]

In March 2018, skeptical activist Susan Gerbic published an article in Skeptical Inquirer summarizing a number of techniques which she says are used by psychics, such as Caputo, to achieve their effects.[17]

Not all the feedback from the show has been entirely negative. While noting that Caputo's claim of special powers "has been questioned", Variety's Gregg Goldstein described her in generally positive terms in a 2012 article, writing, "In an era of hit reality shows about families and denizens of New Jersey, the series' equally big selling point is the dynamic with her husband and two wisecracking teenagers, making it play like a combination of Real Housewives of New Jersey and Bewitched – particularly when their frustrations surface over her random communications with what she calls 'Spirit.'"[18]

In a 2019 segment of Last Week Tonight, which featured Caputo as well as other prominent TV psychics, John Oliver criticized the media for producing shows such as this, because they convince viewers that psychic powers are real, and so enable neighborhood psychics to prey on grieving families. Oliver said "...when psychic abilities are presented as authentic, it emboldens a vast underworld of unscrupulous vultures, more than happy to make money by offering an open line to the afterlife, as well as many other bullshit services."[19] [20]

Cast [edit]

Main

  • Theresa Caputo[21]

Recurring

  • Larry Caputo Jr.[21]
  • Victoria Caputo[21]
  • Larry Caputo

Episodes [edit]

Series Overview [edit]

Season 1 (2011) [edit]

Season 2 (2012) [edit]

Season 3 (2012) [edit]

Season 4 (2013) [edit]

Season 5 (2013) [edit]

Season 6 (2014) [edit]

Season 7 (2014) [edit]

Season 8 (2015) [edit]

Season 9 (2015–16) [edit]

Season 10 (2017) [edit]

Season 11 (2017) [edit]

Season 12 (2018) [edit]

Season 13 (2018) [edit]

Season 14 (2019) [edit]

See also [edit]

  • Ann O'Delia Diss Debar
  • Char Margolis
  • Flim-Flam! (Psychics, ESP, Unicorns and other Delusions)
  • Fortune telling fraud
  • Houdini's debunking of psychics and mediums
  • James Van Praagh
  • John Edward
  • Linda and Terry Jamison
  • Matt Fraser (psychic)
  • Monica the Medium
  • Televangelist Peter Popoff exposed by James Randi
  • Psychic Blues: Confessions of a Conflicted Medium
  • Psychic Friends Network, telephone psychic service
  • Rose Mackenberg
  • Thomas John Flanagan
  • Tyler Henry

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External links [edit]

  • Official website
  • Long Island Medium at IMDb
  • Theresa Caputo's site
  • Psychic Methods Revealed: Hot Reading
  • Psychic Methods Exposed - Cold Reading Tricks
  • John Oliver's analysis of the problem with TV psychics

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Island_Medium

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