Second Assessment: Bigger Winner
A skillfully blended mix of the supernatural, police procedural, and legal.
One hugely important key to making these kinds of supernatural procedurals work is how the reveals are unlayered. The creative team knows this and slowly lets key characters struggle with uncovering the secret - in this case that the main character can talk to ghosts and be possessed.
ESOM in her role reminds me a bit of the first season of Taxi Driver when she was step by step drawn into the confidence of the main team. Here she's skeptical but finds herself getting pulled into believing. So far this is being handled very skillfully.
This is first a comedy with at times comical situations developing. However, there are plenty of tear jerking scenes as ghosts' predicaments get solved by the main character. For me there's a strong flavor from Missing: The Other Side as at the resolution of each ghost's heart wrenching problem the soul is released to cross over.
The first episode was good, but as the series hits its stride there's a strong upward slope towards excellent. Very much looking forward to the remaining episodes.
One hugely important key to making these kinds of supernatural procedurals work is how the reveals are unlayered. The creative team knows this and slowly lets key characters struggle with uncovering the secret - in this case that the main character can talk to ghosts and be possessed.
ESOM in her role reminds me a bit of the first season of Taxi Driver when she was step by step drawn into the confidence of the main team. Here she's skeptical but finds herself getting pulled into believing. So far this is being handled very skillfully.
This is first a comedy with at times comical situations developing. However, there are plenty of tear jerking scenes as ghosts' predicaments get solved by the main character. For me there's a strong flavor from Missing: The Other Side as at the resolution of each ghost's heart wrenching problem the soul is released to cross over.
The first episode was good, but as the series hits its stride there's a strong upward slope towards excellent. Very much looking forward to the remaining episodes.
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