![]() Heartwarming but never treacly, it’s a show about community, diversity and compromise, a guide for living, and non-living. The variety of perfectly cast phantoms - a Viking, a Native American, a Gilded Age doyenne, a Jazz Age chanteuse, a scout leader, a pantsless Wall Street trader, and a Revolutionary War officer who is slowly coming to terms with being gay - allows for a smorgasbord of satire. (It’s the living who cause the real problems here. The season finale found the floor in the entryway giving out beneath Sam and Jay just as they welcomed their first guests the new season finds the floor fixed and a pair of deceptively troublesome new guests checking in. But all parties soon come to an understanding, which grows to friendship. (Jay cannot, though he would like to, and Ambudkar is very good working with an ensemble that remains largely invisible to him.) The couple’s plan is to turn the house into a B&B, which the ghosts initially resist - they have their own bedrooms, and beds, and are loath to share the space. In the first season, Sam fell down a flight of stairs and, when she awoke from a brief coma, found she could see and speak with her dead new roommates. #BLACK AND WHITE FACES DRAWING EMMAN WHATSON FULL#“Ghosts,” the very funny, very un-spooky CBS sitcom about a big house full of dead people and the young couple - Rose McIver as Sam and Utkarsh Ambudkar as Jay - who inherit it, returned for a second season this week like “Abbott Elementary,” it’s a broadcast comedy that has been more than usually recognized by the often network-averse entertainment media. ![]()
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