They said most of the cult didn’t stay. So while the number is high, it wasn’t all or even most.
I know they subverted the prop story in the end, but the meteorite prop looked unusually realistic for a media idea of a meteorite. The only thing really “off” was how lightly he held it with his fingertips. A real meteorite that size would have been over a pound if stone, more than two pounds if iron.
Not their best.
A bit overdone.
Did anyone else think it weird that one of the cult ghosts referred to it as a “Cold War era bunker” instead of just saying bunker or fallout shelter? 
I didn’t catch that. Would they have any way to know the cold a war was over?
I immediately noticed. It was a weird way to say it.
I’m guessing a lot of, if not most, of the show’s demographics are Millenials or younger. Just calling it a ‘bunker’ would probably not have been specific enough for that demo to know what it was, and calling it a ‘fallout shelter’ would be too close to the video game franchise / Prime show ‘Fallout’, and thus be confusing.
So the Basement Ghosts all have the same Ghost Power: they can walk through someone and give them cholera. I think this is the first time this has come up, although I have a vague memory of Sam/Jay trying to keep the Basement Ghosts away from the restaurant for the same reason. Or something.
I looked it up, and cholera is still a thing in the US, though it is easily treatable. Still, I think getting Jay to the Emergency Room should have been Job One, rather than let him suffer through it at home (“he’ll be fine a few hours,” said a ghost who most obviously did not wind up being fine after a few hours). Of course, at the hospital he’d have to answer awkward questions, the first being “how the fuck did you get cholera in Upstate New York in 2026?”.
I’m disappointed in the Bela/Sass breakup. They could have done a lot more with their dream dates. And I rather liked seeing Ramon Zaragoza in clothes other than his Lenape garb.
I believe the ghost effects on the living are temporary, so that when Flower gives someone a high, it goes away after a few hours. That may be why Jay didn’t immediately seek medical treatment. (Plus it would be bad for business at the hotel and restaurant for the authorities to investigate a cholera outbreak.)
Is anybody getting as tired as I am at some of the farfetched and unsatisfying situations the crew is getting into lately?
I just watched the latest episode (about the poker game). Having Jay being in deep tax trouble because of Trevor’s job was bad enough, but holding a high-stakes poker game to get out of debt stretched the bounds of credibility even for this show. I really hate “cringe” episodes. I thought it was cool that Flower actually turned out to be right, but having the bumpkin cops show up and confiscate the money just as it seemed like they succeeded seems like taking things too far. (Of course, the idea of Jay and Sam paying their taxes with $200,000 they could in no way account for was a little hard to swallow, too.)
I would like to go back to smaller-scale problems for a while, like inter-ghost conflict, maybe discovering more interesting things on the grounds, etc. Let Jay and Sam have a little while where they’re not desperate to do stupid things to save the property.
(I also didn’t believe for a second that a Russian mobster would hand over the money, but I was willing to overlook that.)
Overall I agree with you.
As to the Russian Mobster, I’m going to go with he is actually not one and just put on a tough persona for the poker games.
Hadn’t thought about that with the Russian mobster–you might be right.
Forgot about the other thing that made me cringe (and seemed completely unbelievable)–that Jay would put their plan at risk by posting selfies to Instagram, and then when called on it, not even seem disturbed about what he’d done. Would he really be stupid enough to risk the property for a few likes? He can be a little flighty sometimes, but he’s smarter than that.
One of the few times Jay has been dumb as Mike from the UK show. Because that level of stupid was par for course for Mike. Always annoyed me.
Clearly they’re setting up for a season-ending cliffhanger: the deadline to pay up or lose Woodstone will be nigh, and likely Elias will be involved in some aspect of it, and one of the Ghosts will save the day in S6E1.
The sudden turn towards failure and poverty puts the show back on track with the British one; throughout the whole series Mike & Allison were always this close to destitution.
I did rather enjoy Ian Armitage’s guest spot. A character on a CBS sitcom calling an actor by the name of another character on another CBS sitcom: quite meta. Or self-aware. Or a word like that.
Of course using the ghosts to cheat in a card game is something directly from the original UK program.
And I thought the poker player was a reference to Teddy KGB in Rounders. I liked the idea of the episode, using the cheating ghosts and having Flower be the hero, but its execution was normal sitcom and this show used to be special.
This has been a sub-par season, to be sure. But a lot of great sitcoms have had dud seasons.
It seemed to be a direct copy of Daniel Radcliffe on ‘Extras’. Former child star trying so hard to show hes a grown up. When you’re stealing material from Ricky Gervais it’s time to pack it in.
Pretty sure it was a Meta Move as Big Bang Theory had Will Wheaton playing a version of himself opposite Sheldon. Nothing to do with Extras. The Gag itself is fairly old.
Right. Just because a plot element from one show is similar to a plot element from another doesn’t mean one is “stealing” from the other.