Tuesday, October 13, 2009

The Ghost Whisperer

I never really watched Ghost Whisperer before Season 4. I thought it seemed like a silly premise. But then I caught the end of one of the shows on regular television, and I thought it looked sweet. A couple weeks later, I saw that Jim had been killed off. The fact that he died confused me since it didn't coincide with the earlier show I saw. So I began to watch it just to understand what had happened, and was amazed at the concept. I am now a really big fan of the show, and I have just finished watching all of the earlier seasons.






I'm here to make a conclusion of the show.wanna say,Ghost Whisperer is no Six Feet Under, where conversations with the dead, may or may not be conversations with ourselves, and where these interactions only complicate questions about the nature of the universe in a way that makes loving the living in the here and now seem that much more important. It's not even Medium, which offers a few cheap scares amid the purgatorial backtalk. Here Melinda's acquaintances get their dead-o-grams and move on, serene again even though we know their pain can never fully heal. There's no bottom to this show's sentimentality. If Ghost Whisperer has anything to say, it's that we probably should live with fewer secrets and more honestly, so that we can cleave less desperately to our necessary losses.

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