I've just finished season four of Ghost Whisperer (and in some semi-related IMDBing just found out there's a fifth session that's just not on hulu) and wanted to share the following random things that have stuck in my memory from my watchthrough:
Mark Snow killing it as per usual, may he rest in peace
It's clichéd by now but I do think they handled the whole Andrea doesn't know she's dead thing well (although I did find it just a bit odd to write off the only recurring black character and replace her with a white lady, regardless of how much I like Delia)
I was quite sad when Jim cut his hair (having opinions on actors' haircuts is becoming something of a theme in my posts)
In like season two, I think, the dead lady tells her, "I was gonna be a mommy." And I distinctly remember going, "you died of complications from an ectopic pregnancy. The only thing you were gonna be was the proud owner of an invoice for 1 (one) abortion."
Wow do they like to set up big overarching concepts only to do nothing with them (which I'm mostly fine with chiefly because I think this particular show works better on a small scale) maybe they get resolved in season five, but I find it unlikely
If I had a nickel for every time JLH played a very empathetic character whose narrative purpose is to help people in crisis and is also married to a paramedic and whose name begins with M, I'd have two nickels
I took a break between seasons 3 and 4 and when I came back, I'm pretty sure I had fallen asleep while watching and the three or so episodes that I unknowingly missed included professor Payne's exit and Eli's entrance, so for a hot minute before I realized what happened I thought I was having a terrible instance of face blindness due to them like, dying the actor's hair or something
Melinda finds out that the man she thought was her father is actually the man that put her real father in prison and tried to have him killed there while swooping in on her vulnerable mother, eventually beating him to death in the front yard, which Melinda saw, and burying him in the basement; this man tries to kill Melinda when she realizes what happened but her real (dead) father's ghost saves the day because she calls him Dad. This is never brought up again
I loved that following his introduction, Eli's primary character traits are being an absolute Ride or Die friend and an Unrepentant Slut
All of Melinda's new friends in the show are haunted by the ghost of an old deceased romantic connection
I didn't like how or even that they killed Jim, but there was a touch of, "God, finally!" Just because of how long they had been telegraphing the fact that they were going to kill Jim Clancy at some point, so I do have to respect the follow through. Negative points for the backtrack but positive points because I love Jim for a sum of zero.
Kind of hilarious that the thing that made Delia a believer was JimSam reincarnation basketball and not, yknow, talking to her dead husband
Did want to smack Sam upside the head when he told Melinda she needed professional help in an episode that touched pretty heavily on the institutionalized abuse of the American psychiatric system
At first I thought they were going to pull a, "She got pregnant right before he died so their baby is really for true his in every way" but then there were so many episodes after his death that I figured they wouldn't, and then they did and it turns out those episodes were real time apparently
Jim Clancy's pick for a second-first wedding/vowel renewal elopement is the middle of the road. Not on the sidewalk where they actually first interacted, just in the middle of the street, which does not appear to be closed for the occasion
