Ghosts

 February 16, 2025

Ghosts

Dear Viewers,

      

           If you are trying to find an entertaining and light hearted comedy, you’re in luck. Ghosts is a TV show produced by Jeff Cardoni, the producer of many other well known shows like Young Sheldon and Silicon Valley. To begin, Ghosts is an amusing show with many remarkable qualities. Those qualities include the theme of the living and dead coexisting and having an unexpected friendship, the situational humor, and even some irony.  Considering all this, Ghosts is known to be the  American adaptation of the beloved, original British sitcom.

         First of all, Ghosts is 5 seasons of a PG rated TV show and is suitable for older children and adults. And, despite the common belief that Ghosts is just a worse remake of the “real” show that was initially made in the UK, Ghosts is actually much better at representing the key themes to a succeeding series. Furthermore, one quality that Cardoni nails is the irony. When one ghost says, “This money, it's complicating everything. I'd be better just washing my hands of it.” Another responds, “Ironic. If you'd washed your hands 250 years ago, you wouldn't have pooped yourself to death” (Ghosts, 2022).  Moreover, this represents situational irony because the first ghost, named Isaac, died from cholera, a disease caused by not washing your hands.  

        If you were to imagine a world where ghosts actually exist, not many would imagine them friendly. Most would imagine what you see in Ghostbusters, The Haunted Mansion, or any horror movie. However, Cardoni does the opposite. In addition, he manages to sneak this irony into plain sight. The ghosts in this TV show are nice and have a friendship with the main character, Sam and her husband, Jay.  

       Sam and Jay move into a mansion she inherited from her ancestors. Immediately, when Sam and Jay move in, Sam falls down the stairs. As a result, she goes to the hospital because of her near death experience. Then, when Sam returns, she discovers that since she almost died she is able to see ghosts as a living human. But, Jay, her husband still can't see ghosts. At first, Jay thinks his wife is crazy because she’s saying she can see ghosts. He starts to believe her but their whole life changes. There’s good things about it. For example, when Sam and Jay start up their B & B they moved into the mansion to make, they have invisible spies to see what their customers really think of their B & B business. Even so, Sam gets into sticky situations because of the ghosts. For instance, one ghost, Flower who used to be a hippie, has memory loss. Sam is in a vault with a special metal door that ghosts can't walk through. Flower closes the vault door without thinking. Now, Sam is stuck in the vault . Additionally, Jay, the only other living human who will be able to open the door, can't see the ghosts and the ghosts must find a way to communicate with him to free Sam. 

Overall, Ghosts is the sitcom everyone’s been waiting for. A crossover between Friends and The Addams Family and the perfect show to sit down on the couch with a bowl of buttery popcorn and have the good laugh you’ve been waiting for after a long week. Also, all the ghosts seem to have their own flair and personality and what makes it ten times better than a regular TV show is how Cardoni put all the different characters from different centuries and time periods together. 

At the same time, the qualities and themes that make up this show make it feel like you've been  sucked right into the story. Finally, the amusing trouble that arrives when living and dead coexist  leaves the first impression that’s enough to make you want to watch it over and over again.                                     

 

 Sincerely,

Cora McEachern