Halloween comes 16 weeks late to Ghosts tonight at 8:30p on CBS, and the episode is a pure treat!
Sam (Rose McIver) and Jay (Utkarsh Ambudkar) are throwing their annual Halloween party, and they accidentally invited Pete’s (Richie Moriarty) widow, Carol (Caroline Aaron). So she shows up with donut holes, and that will be her downfall.
That is because she chokes on one and joins the world of the dead. How will Pete deal with having his cheating wife join Woodstone Manor?
While Pete is dealing with being reunited with his wife, Thor (Devan Chandler Long) wants to be reunited with Flower (Sheila Carrasco), who was sucked up in the season two finale. You see on Halloween, you can conjure the dead, and Thor asked Sam and Jay to help him do that. Will they be able to summon Flower?
All of this is happening during Jay and Sam’s Halloween party, and their living friends, Nico (John Reynolds) and Sasha (Christine Ko), are visiting. They find Carol’s body and think that Jay and Sam killed her. So, they can’t wait to get out of there. And to make matters worse, they think that Sam is crazy because she keeps talking to ghost Carol, who they can’t see, because Sam doesn’t realize that she is dead.
And with that, I have a problem. Ghost Whisperer had an episode where Jennifer Love Hewitt realized that her friend, who came to visit her, was dead, even though she didn’t know that she just died when a plane hit her car a few miles away. You would think by now that Sam would be able to tell the difference between the living and the dead. But maybe not.
Anyways. After three seasons, if that is the biggest problem I have with the series, that is a good thing.
And that is the only problem I have with tonight’s episode which is the best one of the season. In fact, I would say it was one of the show’s top episodes to date.
Oh, and I forgot to mention that a big reason why Sam can’t tell that Carol is a ghost is because she told Hetty (Rebecca Wisocky), Alberta (Daniell Pinnock), Sass (Román Zaragoza) and Trevor (Asher Grodman) not to bother her during the party. So they don’t, even though they know that Carol is dead and her body is in the kitchen.
All of that leads to a comedy of errors that will have you laughing for thirty minutes straight. And who doesn’t need that much laughter in their lives?
