Ghost Whisperer

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Season 1
  • Network: CBS
  • Series Premiere Date: Sep 23, 2005
Season #: 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
Metascore
29

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 20 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 20
  3. Negative: 14 out of 20
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Critic Reviews

  1. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Doug Elfman
    88
    What is special about "Ghost Whisperer" is the way it gets everything else right -- casting, acting, writing, directing, pacing, music, you name it.
  2. People Weekly
    Reviewed by: Tom Gliatto
    75
    Ghost Whisperer can be surprisingly moving. [24 Oct 2005, p.41]
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  3. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Paul Brownfield
    50
    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.
  5. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Robert Bianco
    50
    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.
  6. Cleveland Plain Dealer
    Reviewed by: Mark Dawidziak
    40
    The problem with "Ghost Whisperer" is its lack of focus.
  7. Newsday
    Reviewed by: Verne Gay
    40
    A mini-triumph of style over substance (of which there is almost none).
  8. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: David Hinckley
    38
    My "Sixth Sense" says "Ghost Whisperer" isn't a very good show at all.
  9. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
    Reviewed by: Rob Owen
    30
    It's all a bunch of mush, but I suspect it's mush that will find a receptive audience.
  10. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Ned Martel
    30
    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.
  11. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Maureen Ryan
    20
    Pretty pointless.
  12. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Barry Garron
    20
    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.
  13. Variety
    Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    20
    There's so little substance to it.
  14. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Matthew Gilbert
    10
    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.
  15. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Glenn Garvin
    10
    Tr[ies] to distract you from [its] essential awfulness by manipulating the daylights out of you.
  16. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Storm
    10
    Dim-bulb junk.
  17. PopMatters
    Reviewed by: Terry Sawyer
    10
    There's no bottom to this show's sentimentality.
  18. Salon
    Reviewed by: Heather Havrilesky
    10
    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.
  19. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Melanie McFarland
    10
    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.
  20. The New Yorker
    Reviewed by: Nancy Franklin
    10
    [A] lump of lead.
  21. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Tim Goodman
    0
    No series in recent memory has put so much attention on a pair of breasts.... Oh, and the show is terrible.

Awards & Rankings

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#68 Best TV Season of 2005
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#5 Most Discussed TV Season of 2005
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#12 Most Shared TV Season of 2005

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User Score
8.2

Universal acclaim- based on 249 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 207 out of 249
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 249
  3. Negative: 36 out of 249
  1. oliver1h
    Feb 18, 2013
    3
    A matinée show for children and young adult. Boring, sentimental, predictable. The actors are all mediocre and their characters are very twoA matinée show for children and young adult. Boring, sentimental, predictable. The actors are all mediocre and their characters are very two dimensional. The stories are all the same. Overall a bad tv series with zero tension, drama, originality.… Full Review »
  2. vinnybarbin
    Jan 5, 2012
    0
    Maybe this show would be okay if it were a mini-series. And that is a BIG maybe. For me it got old real quick. Every episode is about theMaybe this show would be okay if it were a mini-series. And that is a BIG maybe. For me it got old real quick. Every episode is about the same thing over and over again. Really hard to swallow even for fiction. Why would anyone want to watch a series when you know basically what the outcome is going to be every time. So after the first 10 or so episodes, whats the point? Not to mention the bad acting, bad writing and was incredibly boring. Just another mindless rip-off ghost show for all those 'ghost junkies' out there.… Full Review »
  3. Spielberg00
    Sep 6, 2011
    3
    GHOST WHISPERER is no paranormal thriller--for those who expect just that of it, don't watch it. Instead, they have fooled us with the title:GHOST WHISPERER is no paranormal thriller--for those who expect just that of it, don't watch it. Instead, they have fooled us with the title: it is a supernatural drama, but it tends to lean toward the dramatic side, as there is nothing even remotely spooky about it, and it is aggravatingly dull. For those who expect a supernatural drama...wow.… Full Review »
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