Seriously? OMG! WTF?

Monica Ten-Kate is just your normal 21-year-old college student, but there is something different about her. She can talk to the dead and share their messages with their loved ones. Tonight and every Tuesday at 8p for the next 10 weeks on ABC Family, you can watch Monica the Medium try to date as a departed soul wants to use her to connect with a loved one. If that is not enough for her to handle her Catholic mom is trying to understand her gift, her sisters and her are close but sometimes they bicker and she has the typical fights that roommates have when they live together. It is a lot for anyone to handle, but somehow she makes it work.
On tonight’s season premiere, you will not only get to know Monica, her friends and her family you will get to see her at work. She can be shopping at a store getting ready to buy a dress when someone will come through with a message for a loved one. One loved one can turn into multiple ones and a quick trip to the store can turn into a long one. Or she can be at a party and a father wants to tell his son that he knows he did everything he could to save him but there was nothing he could’ve done. It is so special to watch her share her gift with strangers because you can tell she is doing it from the heart.
Something I can tell she does from experience. About two weeks ago, I interview her about her docuseries and my mother came through. She knew stuff about how my mom died that I haven’t told anyone. She was also able to share some information about my mom and me after she passed away. It wasn’t only these things that made her gift so special to me, it was how she relayed the information with such warmth and care. It made her gift so much more special to me and watching her share her gift weekly will do the same for you.
A gift that is so special, it seems like the spirits were at work to make her share it on television. She wasn’t looking to be on TV, but then about a year and a half ago, a few producers and production companies contacted her all during the same week. In fact, they all found her in different ways. One of the producers went to Penn State and he read about her in the school newspaper. They all asked for interviews on the same day and she did them back to back on Skype. With all of those coincidences, she took it as sign as maybe it something she should do. After 13 meetings here in Los Angeles, she knew it was something that was right for her to do.
Now that she decided she wanted to do the show, she wanted to make sure it was going to air on the right network. It was important for to do it on ABC Family, not only because she grew up watching it, she also knew they would make her docuseries something she could be proud to be part of.
The lighthearted show gives the Medium a larger medium that she can share her gift with. Instead of just helping people locally, she can now help people all over the country. She is also hoping that some of the skeptics, who will tune into the show, will change their minds about Mediums. Maybe by seeing her in action, they will realize that there truly are people who can communicate with the dead.
Don’t expect all of those communications to be depressing. She told me, “I always say a spirit comes through for whoever needs it the most, not necessarily, who wants it the most.” Some of those spirits who come through will be just funny as when they were when they were alive and others will have a serious message to share.
She promises that during each of the 10 one-hour episodes that there will be laughs and there will be tears, but most importantly, it will be an hour of television that people of all ages can watch together as a family and enjoy it all the same.
Not only is she relatable, she is also very likable. How many times can you say that about a person’s who real story is being shared on television every week? Not that often. Monica is pure joy and her show captures that essence.
Monica the Medium is the story of girl who is trying to go to college, hang with her friends and family, try to meet a guy and help people who lost someone very special to them. Since she is not your typical college student, Monica the Medium is not your typical show. It is better than that. Out of all the reality shows I’ve seen that are about and/or have Mediums in them, this one is by far the best. If you’ve ever been curious about Mediums, then I promise you will enjoy this docuseries.