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Ghost Whisperer: up close and personal with the dead by Billie Doux [Originally published on N:Zone in 2005] Melinda: "Places aren't haunted. People are haunted." Yes, this show resembles Medium, but instead of seeing victims who lead our psychic to solve their murders, this story is more about the ghosts themselves. And we're talking more about the spooky, haunted house kind of ghosts, the "look for the white light and go toward it" type of ghosts. Newlyweds Melinda Gordon (Jennifer Love Hewitt) and her husband Jim (David Conrad) talk about being in the death business, since she sees dead people, and he's a paramedic who is often with people when they die. But Melinda argues that death is a small part of life. Well, maybe to her, it is. Melinda is an antiques dealer. (Gee, that's a good way to come into contact with dead people's things.) She works with her friend, Andrea (Aisha Tyler) who is transparently quirky (one week learning guitar, next week learning Latin). David Conrad, who plays Hewitt's young husband, is hunky and charming and may have hidden depths. The two of them know all about Melinda's gift and accept it, which certainly helps. The pilot starts fluffy with their wedding and with trite, rubber-stamped romantic lines, but it doesn't stay that way. What makes Ghost Whisperer different is the emotion. Melinda has great compassion for the ghosts that she sees, and is compelled to help them find their way. The story becomes quite moving as Melinda gets deeply involved in the life (okay, afterlife) of one particular ghost who has been lost since the Vietnam War. I was drawn in pretty much in spite of myself, and moved to tears. And that's saying something, because this really isn't my type of show. If the series is as good as the pilot, it could very well be a hit. I'm certainly going to give it a shot this fall. |
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