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Melinda Gordon (Jennifer Love Hewitt) has a gift - she can
communicate with earthbound spirits or ghosts who cling to the
living because they have unfinished business in our world
preventing them from "crossing over" or going into the light.
Inspired in part by the work of famed medium James Van Praagh and
of Mary Ann Winkowski, a real-life communicator with earth bound
spirits, GHOST WHISPERER explores the spiritual side of life and
death. Melinda navigates between the dead and the living with her
sometimes chilling, sometimes heart-rending and sometimes amusing
actions as an intermediary between the ghosts and those they
haunt. Although she is very good at being an intermediary she
never publicizes this gift instead is known around town as a
newlywed and the owner of the successful antiques store, Same As
it Never Was.
Firefighter Jim Clancy (David Conrad), Melinda's husband, knows
that being an intermediary between the living and dead can take
an emotional toll on his wife and worries that he might not be
able to protect her as well as he would like. Melinda has also
recently revealed her gift to new friend and employee, Delia
Banks (Camryn Manheim), a single mom of teenager Ned Banks
(Christoph Sanders). Melinda fears what the consequences might be
of drawing Delia into this unconventional world, as Delia, unlike
her son Ned, is a bit skeptical of Melinda's gift - although she
loves Melinda unconditionally as a friend. Melinda has also
shared her secret with Eli James (Jamie Kennedy), a psychology
professor at Rockland University, who is a unique individual - he
has the gift of hearing ghosts, but not seeing them. For her
part, Melinda accepts her unique abilities as a blessing and
sometime curse, but always helps her clients, alive or dead, find
emotional closure. Currently in its fourth season, Ghost
Whisperer plunges into new territory by literally rocking the
foundations of the series with a new mythology - Love Transcends
Death.
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Ghost Whisperer: The Final Season--or, The Mystery of the
Haunted Hospital! The fifth and final season of Jennifer Love
Hewitt's cult show leaps five years into the future, where her
son Aiden (Connor Gibbs) is already conversing with ghosts and
her husband Jim (David Conrad) has become a doctor. This latter
development gives Melinda plenty of reasons to hang out at
Rockland Hospital, which oozes with ghosts and becomes the
central battleground for a new layer of Ghost Whisperer's
mythology: just as Melinda can see ghosts that most people can't,
Aiden can see supernatural beings called "shinies" and "shadows"
that even ghosts can't see. The malevolent desires of the shadows
drive much of the action over the season's 22 episodes.
Plenty of episodes aren't centered on the hospital: a paranoid
entrepreneur whose security system detects a ghost; marital
strife between two real estate agents that continues after death;
a clairvoyant comic-book artist; a ghost/clown/detective; and
family secrets that threaten to ruin a romance between Melinda's
friend Eli (Jamie Kennedy) and a childhood sweetheart. But the
hospital proves an effective theater for creepy doings because,
let's face it, hospitals--with their sterile environments and
bloody surgeries, rife with life-and-death stakes and basic human
vulnerability--are creepy. Though the conflict between shinies
and shadows resolves fairly flimsily in the final episode, the
show does an excellent job of building it up over the course of
the season--as is so often the case, clues and hints are much
more tantalizing than discovering what actually lies underneath
it all. The extra features of Ghost Whisperer: The Final Season
are middling--the featurettes and webisodes are a step up from
the previous season, but the interactive games are still dopey.
But the season itself is strong and sure to satisfy the series'
fans. --Bret Fetzer