The Ghost Whisperer, airing on CBS, Friday nights at 8 pm, falls solidly within the revered "family hour". And yes it is.
A show that is, specifically, tame and even a bit childish.
Jennifer Love-Hewitt plays a woman who can speak to the dead. In fact, throughout the show, based on the episode I watched on Friday, there are plenty of dead people all round and speaking with Hewitt's character about events in a life before a premature death left them unable to finish their business on earth.
In the episode on October 28th, a young adolescent met an early death as a result of excessive bee stings, to which he was allergic. The young man discovered right before his death that he had been adopted. It was his deathly quest to find his birth mother that left the adolescent unable to "cross over." "Crossing over" being the term used in the show that would have the unhappy dead finally able to rest in peace, peace found by "following the light"
Hewitt's character helps the dead people get their rightful peace in death by finishing up what they were unable to do in life.
Such as finding a birth mother.
Which Hewitt's character did manage to do, with a little help from her dead ghost friend. There was the usual search for hospital and court records. Such searches were made much easier by a ghost able to read words over some bureaucrat's shoulder to Hewitt's character while the bureaucrat has no idea a ghost is perusing secret documents thought confidential.
In due course, the adolescent's birth mother is found. Who does, in order to elevate the drama I suppose, deny ever giving birth to a son and further, demands that Hewitt's character and her alleged ghost son get out of her life.
The birth mother is undergoing her own life drama in that her daughter is then currently pregnant and wrestling with how to deal with it all.
Article comments
1 - Dave Nalle
There's something charmingly retarded about this show. And I find Hewitt's bizarre makeup, unbrushed hair and ridiculous and amateurishly applied false eyelashes somehow strangely entrancing.
Dave
2 - Brent McKee
When exactly did Kelly Monaco change her name to Jennifer Love Hewitt? Alternately, when did Jennifer Love Hewitt appear on "Dancing With The Stars"?
3 - Nancy
"searches made easier" is wordy, which makes it confusing. I take it the bureaucrat knows Hewitt's character has the gift that she does. Other than this snag, the review isn't bad.
4 - RogerMDillon
why was this review corrected regarding your thinking that Love was on "Dancing with the Stars", but your factually inaccurate Notable Quotables is alllowed to stand as is?
5 - Tracie
I'm in my late 30s and actually love Ghost Whisperer. I'm college educated, an executive in my field and overall considered very accomplished. Although the particular episode that you viewed was a bit overly dramatic, I do find tha the shows are generally quite witty and do a good job of making those with open minds wonder....'what if'...
I strongly suggest giving the show another viewing.
6 - JL
That particular episode is nonetheless one of the average Ghost Whisperer episode. Jennifer Love Hewitt does a great job playing her character. She's gorwn into a great actress anyway. And while the show is growing, it should get the right credits it deserves.
I'm 20 yrs old who watch the show with my 60+yr old grandma and my 45yr old mom and dad. See! It's a great show!