This is so embarrassing … I swear I don’t actually watch this show. 'Cause if I did, I wouldn’t need to ask, right? … but where did the kid come from? I thought she was pregnant semi recently – but that kid is about 8.
You happily admit to watching nearly any reality TV show that comes on and this is what you are embarrassed about admitting to watching? :dubious: 
Ever since new episodes of Worlds Wildest Police Videos (where tires squeal on gravel!) went off the air this is my new guilty pleasure, particularly since - face it- there ain’t crap on TV on Friday nights, and I can catch up with Bill Moyers on pbs.org. It ranks up there with the now-dead I can’t believe I still watchER.
You just missed the season opener, Twix. The relationship between Amanda (is that her name?) and her not-dead husband (remember the weird actually-dead blonde guy?) did this quick fast-forward and POOF! Widow remarried with a kid! MAGICK! I will neither swear nor bet, but I’m fairly certain that the teaser started with a subtitle of “Five years ago” and the post-credit opener had “Present day” as a subtitle.
Just…go with it. You don’t want to watch WWE Friday Night Smackdown, anyhow.
We used to like the show, and then stopped watching it. However, we tried again this season and, well, have two shows on the DVR now we haven’t watched yet. We did see the first one (or two?) and knew about the five year jump.
Still - one of those shows with a good premise, but sort of gets old, real fast.
I mean, every episode has her translating badly at the end. For instance:
Sobbing dead wife, “Tell Jimmy I love him and am sorry I caused the house to burn down, killing our children and knowing our fire insurance lapsed and putting you in bankruptcy and making you lose your job…”
Ghost Whisperer, “She says she loves you.”
Hey, bitch - tell him what she really said!!!
I think it might be time for this show to “suddenly see the light” and walk towards it.
I usually like you, DMark, but how boring would that be to watch?
“Tell Jimmy I love him and am sorry I caused the house to burn down, killing our children and knowing our fire insurance lapsed and putting you in bankruptcy and making you lose your job…”
Ghost Whisperer, “She says she loves you and is sorry she caused the house to burn down, killing our children and knowing our fire insurance lapsed and putting you in bankruptcy and making you lose your job…”
Yikes.
You’re making me blush, chique, I had no idea you had such strong feelings…we really need to do lunch.
Still, Ghost Whisperer could have said, in the example above:
“She is sorry for being so vindictive and causing the fire and your pain, but she loves you…”
The problem is, she never really translates well. It is always “short shrift” and misses any nuance whatsoever.
I am reminded of the time I was living in Berlin and caught an interview with Barbra Streisand on a talk show - there was a simultaneous translator.
The question was, “Do you like being here in Germany?”
Her answer was, “You know, it is new for me and I love the food and am glad to be here.”
The translator’s words were, “No.”
I guess “know” and “no” sound a lot alike, and out of context, well…
Maybe I have a sore point about translations.
The kid is Melinda’s child, born in the first episode of the current season. Then there was some cweepy cwap where some ghost claimed that the child was hers. Then they forwarded it five years into the future, and left it there. The show appears to now be permanently set five years from where they left off last season. This show has gone from nauseating to abysmal. I can barely tolerate it anymore. However, Melinda’s rack is still as enticing as ever, so I dutifully tune in each and every week.
Okay – time jump, shoulda figured that out. (Remember the fourth kid on Family Ties?)
But her current husband, though he looks to us like her other husband, is actually the ghost of her other husband in this other dude’s body, right? Does he look like her old husband to anyone else but her?
(And when did Camryn Mannheim find out she was a ghost whisperer? Didn’t she originally keep it from her?)
(Seriously – I’ve never deliberately watched this show – but CBS is my default channel, so it’s where I am at the start of prime time, and if I’m on the computer with the TV on but didn’t grab the remote, I end up seeing things. Really.)
You’re awfully curious about the complex subtleties of the storyline for someone who “doesn’t watch the show.” No, Jim looks like the other guy to everybody except Melinda. IIRC, Delia was made privy to Melinda’s ability soon after she joined the cast. Her son found out first, and then all sorts of I Love Lucy shenanigans ensued as they attempted to conceal it from Delia, and then they finally broke down and told her after their ruses started disintegrating under the weight of their own complexity.