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