I am in the process of catching up with the post-strike episodes of Ghost Whisperer and all I can think is “Damn, this show has went downhill!”.  When it first came on, I really enjoyed it.  It was something a little bit different.  I was still morning the loss of Tru Calling and Ghost Whisperer was a suitable replacement.

    The first season was was enjoyable right up through the airliner crash finale.  When season two started I was in no way expecting what I got when we found out that Andrea actually died in the crash of the airliner.  At the end of the episode where Melinda is talking to Andrea’s brother…all I could say was “WOW!”.  I sat there shaking my head for about ten minutes.  There was also the appearance of the ‘wide brimmed hat man’.  I thought long last we would be finding out something interesting.  The story behind the story so to speak.

    Unfortunately Andrea’s replacement turned out to be Delia, played by Camryn Manheim.  My guess is the ratings tanked when Manheim appeared and that was the reason that Melinda suddenly started with the excessive cleavage baring.  Don’t get me wrong, I like boobs as much as any straight man but given the crappy storylines I can only assume the show was targetting the hormone laden teen set.

   Through the last half of season two and most of season three there have been a few flashes of returning to the story but they keep getting sidetracked with the dumb crap.  Things like the city beneath the city that Melinda finds underneath Grandview, which also can be accessed via the hole in the wall in her basement.  Have you seen the remains of the city?  It looks like the city is in a cave.  Do you know how deep that cave would have to be in order for buildings to still be standing and to not have the present day Grandview collapse into a big hole and crush it?  The fact that noone remembers there was ever a previous city is just ridiculous.  This isn’t biblical times for heaven sake.

   We have learned that Melinda, her mother and her grandmother all had this power to see the dead.  Now we know Melinda has a brother as well a a many times great-grandmother that can also see the dead.  My question is how does the brother have the power if this came through the maternal line and the brother has a different mother?

I do not expect my TV shows to be reality but for mercy sake try to have some continuity and maybe work out storyline bugs before you begin shooting.  I will watch the start of next season but I suspect that if the cheesiness doesn’t subside I will not bother to finish the season.

Tags: Ghost Whisperer, TV