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Ghost Whisperer: Season 1
  • Network: CBS
  • Series Premiere Date: Sep 23, 2005
  • Season #: 0 , 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6
Metascore
29 out of 100

Generally unfavorable - based on 20 Critics

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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  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. 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.
  4. 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. Cleveland Plain Dealer
    Reviewed by: Mark Dawidziak
    40
    The problem with "Ghost Whisperer" is its lack of focus.
  6. Newsday
    Reviewed by: Verne Gay
    40
    A mini-triumph of style over substance (of which there is almost none).
  7. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: David Hinckley
    38
    My "Sixth Sense" says "Ghost Whisperer" isn't a very good show at all.
  8. 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.
  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. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Maureen Ryan
    20
    Pretty pointless.
  11. Variety
    Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    20
    There's so little substance to it.
  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. PopMatters
    Reviewed by: Terry Sawyer
    10
    There's no bottom to this show's sentimentality.
  14. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Glenn Garvin
    10
    Tr[ies] to distract you from [its] essential awfulness by manipulating the daylights out of you.
  15. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Storm
    10
    Dim-bulb junk.
  16. 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.
  17. The New Yorker
    Reviewed by: Nancy Franklin
    10
    [A] lump of lead.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
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User Score
8.3 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 233 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 156 out of 184
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 184
  3. Negative: 27 out of 184
  1. vinnybarbin
    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 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 »
  2. Spielberg00
    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: 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 »
  3. MrShadyf0o
    0
    I don't mean to come off as a cynic, but who in their right mind can rate this drivel positively? TV shows and movies of the last decade have bred a generation of sappy, everyone's-life-has-a-purpose, every-story-has-a-happy-ending believing simpletons. All this show does, at every chance it gets, is try to pull your heart strings. It serves no other purpose. There is no plot. Are there so many people out there that want to believe so badly that their loved ones have "moved into the light," that this show actually has an 8.5 score? Apparently so. The show never stops to try to explain it's convoluted metaphysics and nobody seems to care because it makes them feel fuzzy inside. Is this what TV entertainment has been reduced to? Nothing but cheap nonsensical sentimental moments, with a few clips of Hewitt's breasts every now and then to distract from the fact that the show makes absolutely no sense, and has absolutely no plot?… Full Review »
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