After 18 months of uncertainty, depression, and craziness, we need something that makes us happy when we watch it every week. We get that with CBS’s Ghosts that airs every Thursday at 9p.
Rose McIver played a Zombie in iZombie, and now she is alive again, living with ghosts in iGhosts. No, I mean, Ghosts.
Anyways, Samantha (McIver) and her husband, Jay (Utkarsh Ambudkar), inherit a 300-year-old mansion from a long-lost relative. It is just a little bigger than their NYC 5th floor walk-up. Who am I kidding? It is a sh!tload bigger. It turns out that is a good thing because they won’t be living in it alone. That is because there are several Ghosts who also call it home, including a great-great-great-aunt. I think I got the number of greats right.
Back to the story, Samantha and Jay drive up their new home to see what it looks like and decide if they want to convert it into a bed and breakfast. While he would prefer to stay in the city, she wants to call her family home, home. Who wouldn’t want to claim this mansion as their own, especially because it is free?
Well, there are few people who don’t want them to move in, and that is the current inhabitants because they like their eternal home just the way it is without any mortals walking through them. It hurts when they do that.
Therefore, they come up with a plan to scare the couple out of there. Since they are new to haunting, it doesn’t go too well. Trevor (Asher Grodman), who can move things, knocks a vase over by the steps. Samantha doesn’t see it, trips over it, and falls down the stairs. She doesn’t die, but she comes so close to it that she gets to see the dead.
Who are these dead people she sees? First, there is her great-great-great-aunt, Hetty (Rebecca Wisocky), who is from the 1800s. She is set in her ways and doesn’t want anything to change in her beloved home. Issac (Brandon Scott Jones) is from colonial America, and he thinks he is the leader of the group. He also thinks he is more famous than his arch-nemesis Alexander Hamilton. He wasn’t. Pete is a scout leader from the ’80s who met his fate with an arrow through the neck. He is good at leading this troop of undead. Thorfinn (Richie Moriarty) has been there the longest because he is a Viking and still lives as he did back in his day. The next oldest ghost is Sasappis (Román Zaragoza), who is Native American. Alberta (Danielle Pinnock) is a Jazz singer from the Roaring ’20s, and she believes she was murdered. Unlike Flower (Sheila Carrasco), whose death was too much to bear because she was killed by one in the ’60s. Finally, there is Trevor (Grodman), who is a self-involved stockbroker from the ’90s.
Together they are a family, and now they have two new members, one who is a living and can see them and the other one cannot. While Samantha’s ability is a dream come true for them. It is a nightmare for her.
Will they all be to find a way to live together? We will just have tune in every week to find out.
And you are going to want to tune in because this is a joyful show. You feel happy watching the series because there is an innocence to it. It is not depressing, not angry, it is just sweet.
They are an unlikely family and it works. Mostly because you can tell that all of the actors genuinely like each other. It is obvious they enjoy going to work, and we will enjoy watching them work.
We need more shows like Ghosts, so watch it. I need a break from all the seriousness, and this gives me just that. So check it out because if I have to watch another intense comedy, I will scream. And not because I saw a ghost. I need to put my head on my pillow with a smile on my face, and Ghosts does just that. Who doesn’t want that?
So watch two episodes of Ghosts tonight and tell me about it in the morning!
