Ghost Whisperer
CBS | Release Date: September 23, 2005
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
29
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 20 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
4
Negative:
14

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
88
Chicago Sun-TimesDoug Elfman
Season 1 Review: What is special about "Ghost Whisperer" is the way it gets everything else right -- casting, acting, writing, directing, pacing, music, you name it. Read full review
75
People WeeklyTom Gliatto
Season 1 Review: Ghost Whisperer can be surprisingly moving. [24 Oct 2005, p.41]
50
Los Angeles TimesPaul Brownfield
Season 1 Review: Hewitt is quite good, or as good as the show allows; there are some potholes along the way, as the script sacrifices sense to sentiment. Read full review
50
USA TodayRobert Bianco
Season 1 Review: Doubtless this kind of death-walking sentimentality has its fans. And most of those fans probably won't even wonder why some of the dead are stuck in the clothes in which they died, while others get to rent tuxedos. Read full review
40
Cleveland Plain DealerMark Dawidziak
Season 1 Review: The problem with "Ghost Whisperer" is its lack of focus. Read full review
40
NewsdayVerne Gay
Season 1 Review: A mini-triumph of style over substance (of which there is almost none). Read full review
38
New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley
Season 1 Review: My "Sixth Sense" says "Ghost Whisperer" isn't a very good show at all. Read full review
30
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob Owen
Season 1 Review: It's all a bunch of mush, but I suspect it's mush that will find a receptive audience. Read full review
30
The New York TimesNed Martel
Season 1 Review: Neither Ms. Hewitt nor her series are malevolent forces, and the producers can feel as good as they choose about a cloying job well done. Read full review
20
Chicago TribuneMaureen Ryan
Season 1 Review: Pretty pointless. Read full review
20
The Hollywood ReporterBarry Garron
Season 1 Review: A series like this can go in a lot of different directions, and creator-writer-director John Gray takes them there. He goes for the scary, the funny and the overbearingly sentimental, but it is the latter that dominates. Read full review
20
VarietyBrian Lowry
Season 1 Review: There's so little substance to it. Read full review
10
Boston GlobeMatthew Gilbert
Season 1 Review: At times during ''Ghost Whisperer," the sentiment is so thick you might want to go away from the light -- the light from the TV set, that is. Read full review
10
Miami HeraldGlenn Garvin
Season 1 Review: Tr[ies] to distract you from [its] essential awfulness by manipulating the daylights out of you. Read full review
10
Philadelphia InquirerJonathan Storm
Season 1 Review: Dim-bulb junk. Read full review
10
PopMattersTerry Sawyer
Season 1 Review: There's no bottom to this show's sentimentality. Read full review
10
SalonHeather Havrilesky
Season 1 Review: Not only is this one of the more melodramatic, sappy, empty pilots on the slate, but the ghosts she encounters are hopelessly sweet and sentimental. Read full review
10
Seattle Post-IntelligencerMelanie McFarland
Season 1 Review: The problem is a lack of depth; "Joan of Arcadia," the series this is replacing, had heartfelt moments and significant emotion behind its storylines. Whereas this has Love telling ghosties to head for the light. Read full review
10
The New YorkerNancy Franklin
Season 1 Review: [A] lump of lead. Read full review
0
San Francisco ChronicleTim Goodman
Season 1 Review: No series in recent memory has put so much attention on a pair of breasts.... Oh, and the show is terrible. Read full review
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