Melinda resides in a fictional small town located in the New England region of the United States, epically named Grandview. We aren’t told and Melinda herself frequently admits she has no idea. The “light” in Ghost Whisperer is commissioned in the most universal way, because we, the viewers, don’t really know where these spirits go once their “business” is concluded. But isn’t that the point? Learning not to sweat the small stuff, even in the afterlife, to become unbound like Prometheus in Greek mythology, or, on a more visceral level, to understand that we live with our hand in a jar, grasping an apple, and you can’t take the apple with you when it’s time to remove your hand. Detractors of the show, The Anti-Whisperers (wink), rightly point out that Ghost Whisperer‘s spirits deal in the petty change of karmic currency. The spirits learn to “let go” of their fears and hang-ups in order to “crossover into the light”. Melinda, like Whoopi Goldberg in Ghost, helps these “earthbound spirits” communicate their “unfinished business with the living”. Others simply want to send a message (“The Woman of His Dreams”, “Cat’s Claw”) or complete an experience that was cut short thanks to an untimely demise (“A Grave Matter”). Those are the scary ones, similar in force and machination to the vengeful spirits we find on CW’s Supernatural. Some are acutely aware of what’s happening, but are angry and bent on retribution (“Mean Ghost”, “Speed Demon”). Some are confused, completely clueless to the circumstances of their deaths, sometimes unable to figure out that they’ve died (as in the “Drowned Lives” episode). She can talk (and, yes, whisper) to them, too. On Ghost Whisperer, Jennifer Love Hewitt’s Melinda Gordon has a more singular and insular gift than the one I’m imagining. In order to tell you my story, I have to tell you theirs.”

They stick with us and end up in syndication because they have unfinished business with the viewers.

‘Airborne pixels’, my grandmother called them. Except, from the time I was a little boy, I knew I could talk to TV shows. I live in the southern United States and I really dig watching television. That’s why I’d like to be “The Television Whisperer”, and I could introduce myself the way “Melinda Gordon” (Jennifer Love Hewitt) does at the beginning of each Ghost Whisperer episode: “My name is Quentin. Once, I persuaded a telemarketer to buy something from me, which earned me the title of “Telemarketer Whisperer”.īut now, feeling unfulfilled, I want more.

In my house, when I find the remote lodged in the sofa cushions, I’m the “Remote Control Whisperer”. Not only are there animal whisperers, from “The Dog Whisperer” and The Horse Whisperer to bird and elk whisperers, but the title has branched out to other occupations and hobbies, as in “The Wood Whisperer” (adventures in wood carving), “The Boss Whisperer” (how to navigate office politics), and “The Bacteria Whisperer” (like, you know, a biologist). Seems like there’s a “whisperer” everywhere you turn.

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