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GHOST WHISPERER |
Melinda Gordon - Jennifer Love Hewitt Jim Clancy - David Conrad Delia Banks - Camryn Manheim Eli James - Jamie Kennedy 
OTHER GHOST WHISPERER SEASONS Season 1 Season 2 Season 3 Season 4 THEY ALSO SEE DEAD PEOPLE Medium Haunted Afterlife Millennium 
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Birthday PresenceMelinda's son is born in difficult circumstances at the exact moment that the book of prophecies says he would be. Five years later, Melinda sees the ghost that has been coming to him on each birthday, a ghost who believes that he is her son and should accompany her into the light. Because the person being threatened is Melinda's child and because there is no explanation for it, the final season of GHOST WHISPERER appears to be going for something new, but as the story develops it becomes clear that we are back to the same template of a scary ghost who just has to have their story uncovered before there can be a few tears, a big bear hug and the living can go on happy in the knowledge that the dead have gone into the light. The addition of a new member to the perfect couple looks like threatening to provide even more saccharine sentimentality (we didn't think it was possible) and this final series could be the one that finally does for us from glucose overload. TopSee No EvilA friend of Ned's has her room trashed, apparently in response to her deleting a chain email that promised dire consequences for anyone who doesn't send it on. Melinda learns of a ghost who died as a result of deleting the email. This starts off intriguingly with the possibility of the cursed email, but as soon as the fact that a ghost was responsible for most of the problems it settles down into the same old pattern. The fact that the tearful goodbye featurest two ghosts instead the dead and the living is the only variation. This does introduce a ghost with stitched up eyes and mouth (beware anyone who is sensitive about their eyes) who looks like being a recurring character, but is otherwise unremarkable. TopTill Death Us Do StartEli's father dies and wants to know where his wife is. She doesn't want anything to do with him even though she died years before and is still hanging around. Digging into the past brings up some awkward and difficult skeletons for Eli to deal with about the night his mother died. The fact that the dead in this story are Eli's folks and that the two men in the love triangle are Barries Newman and Bostwick doesn't make the slightest difference to the adherence to the GHOST WHISPERER template. There are lots of red herrings to sort out before finally everyone gets together, talks it through and the dead go into the light after a group hug. Jamie Kennedy makes it all bearable with his funny performance as a son dealing with truths about his parents that no son should ever need to know. TopDo OverWhilst Delia is romanced, apparently by a man that she does not like, Melinda must dig into a case where a doctor made a mistake 50 years earlier, killing his patient. The identity of Delia's mystery man is so obvious from the outset that the whole plot strand is undermined, whilst some of the stunts that he pulls just would not work in real life. That said, one thing this show does not need is a little more love. The ghost story fits into the standard GHOST WHISPERER pattern and barely manages to maintain interest, though it does introduce a new ghost in the morgue who clearly is going to be around for a while. TopCause For AlarmA computer software magnate suffers from several mental disorders that limit his ability to deal with the outside world, but when a ghost appears to have invaded his high-tech security system, Eli brings Melinda in to sort out the case. This is another case of an intriguing start that rapidly falls victim to the GHOST WHISPERER template and there is a serious sense of deja vu since this deals with a previously unrevealed family relationship for the mystery. It's definitely a 'been there, seen that' episode and GHOST WHISPERER at its most repetitive. TopHead Over HeelsAidan's teacher at school is a member of a rich family of horseriders who lost their father to alzheimer's disease. Melinda sees a headless horsemen and it is clear that a family tragedy is still haunting them, but a tragedy that is of whose making? Another intriguing start with the Halloween setting and the headless horseman wandering around, but the tried and tested GHOST WHISPERER format comes into play, the mystery is solved and the light is crossed over into after a few teary eyed farewells. The only spark of interest comes in the final minutes as Eli learns some things about Aidan's not so imaginary friends that seems to be pointing towards the season plot arc. TopDevil's BargainMelinda is concerned about Aidan's story of 'Shinies' and 'Shadows', parts of spirits that she cannot see and something so scary that even the mysterious book has rewritten itself to hide from them. In the meantime, she has to deal with two important men who appear to be being haunted by a medical student who was also a stripper. If you wanted to see Jennifer Love Hewitt do a pole dance then this is the episode for you. The fact that there are strippers involved is about the only thing that marks this out from all the other stories that we have seen. There's a ghost, slowly it reveals itself and finally it goes away after a verbal hug. The Shinies and Shadows are intriguing, though, and we might be looking to this plot arc to keep interest from crossing over into the light itself. TopDead ListingA real estate professional is found dead in the basement of a building. His wife turns out to be the main suspect despite their projecting the perfect marriage. Melinda sorts it all out. When we say that this is possibly the most tedious and least believable GHOST WHISPERER episode ever there is reason to be afraid, very afraid. It's terminally dull, follows the show's format template rigidly and has the most ridiculous reconciliation that the show has yet come up with. Only Delia's desire for a golden key and the fact that Aidan has a girl ghost in his closet gets this anywhere near bearable. TopLost In The ShadowsMelinda and Jim's son Aidan goes wandering off with ghost who believes that she did something terrible and is now at the mercy of the shadows. Whilst the whole town searches frantically for him, the shadows begin to move in. How can a child in peril be so unengaging as this? Everyone looks concerned and the whole police force appears to have nothing else to do other than look for a child who has been missing only a couple of hours, but there is no real sense of threat to Aidan and the little that we now learn about the Shadows and the Shiny just isn't worth the effort. TopExcessive ForcesEli gets pulled over by a cop and Melinda sees a ghost in the cruiser. She learns that the kid was killed, apparently by the cop. As soon as she starts asking questions her own car gets towed and is ‘accidentally’ stripped down for a drugs search. What is the cop hiding and is he the only one? After the shinies and shadows of the last episode THE GHOST WHISPERER reverts to type with this story that is the same as so many of the others with only the names and job titles changed. As such it is unimaginative and the mystery hardly catches the audience at all. There is even an actual hug in the crossover scene rather than the usual virtual hugs. Top |
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