Re “The Ghost Whisperer” I didn’t think much of this show when I saw the descriptions of it, something about Jennifer Love Hewitt and chatty dead people, and never bothered to watch it. I was cruising through the channels the other night and there was little JLH in a tight black bra and her semi-famous assets proudly displayed.
Well I had to stop and check it out. She was horsing around in the bedroom with some guy, but I don’t remember the dialog all that well. The scene ended and I snapped out of my stuporous trance. I go to the show’s website, and she’s busting loose.
What’s up with this? I’d guess the female demographic for a show like this has got to skew 80% or better. Are her breasts supposed to save this show?
Starlets using their breasts, legs or other bodily parts to save bad movies is American as apple pie, and goes back at least 100 years in America cinema.
Where have you been? They’ve been draping her in lingerie for the entire run of the series. Why else would single straight guys watch the show? The acting? The storylines?
I think they’re attempting to draw your attention away from those irritating dead caterpillar sized fake eyelashes, the horrendous wigs and hideous Victorian Slut inspired wardrobe. Whether or not they succeed in this probably has a whole lot to do with the viewer’s gender!
You have to admire CBS for not directly ripping off Medium – their cheesy psychic show starring a woman who can’t act but has world-class tatas has a brunette, not a blonde, in the starring role.
Once I could manage to draw my eyes away from the cleavage I was distressed to see that the site has a test to see if your house is haunted and you can submit questions to Mary-Ann, a “a real-life ghost buster”. Could CBS sink any lower?
Actually (just from my observation) she’s not really that “huge”, it’s just the rest of her is so (relatively) slender her medium largish breasts look a lot bigger than they are.
I’m still watching Medium. I gave up on *Ghost Whisperer *at the end of last season. Even my husband, who is quite a fan of the pair in question (JLH’s hooters, I mean, but also *Medium *and Ghost Whisperer) has about 8 Ghost Whisperer episodes backed up on the DVR he hasn’t gotten to, while we watch *Medium *almost live (“almost” meaning we start 15 minutes late so we can FF commercials. That’s as live as we get anymore.)
*Medium *can be silly, and Patricia Arquette’s not likely to win many awards for acting or dentistry, but the stories are compelling with some interesting grey-area ethics considerations and the family dynamic is the most authentic I’ve ever seen on television. The kids are cute without being one bit precocious, and I’m a little in love with the geek husband. If he was real, he’d be a Doper, no doubt. But why they don’t move the phone to her side of the bed so she can take the inevitable middle of the night phone calls, I’ll never understand! (Of course, it’s a storytelling device to get her husband involved, I get that. It’s just so illogical.)
Ghost Whisperer isn’t bad so much as banal. I grew cavities with the syrupy relationship between the main character and her husband, and the show was just too formulaic for my taste. I was briefly intrigued in the season finale when they killed off a main character who I really did like (the only character I liked, actually), but of course when your premise is about ghosts, death isn’t much of an impediment. Apparently I wasn’t intrigued enough to actually tune in to see if they had the stones to have her character actually cross over and leave the series.
The show doesn’t need “savings.” Despite having nearly no discernable appeal (to me), it does routinely do quite well in its time slot. It was an automatic renew last year.
Well, she pretty much used them to launch the show, so I guess you can say that.
My wife rolls her eyes when I mention that I want to watch the “Breast Whisperer”
We play a little game. My favorite part of the show is the gratuitous breast shot where I yell “boobies” out loud and wifey gives me the evil look. We also play another side game where we comment on the many different ways they avoid showing her hips. Shame actually cause wide hips and American thighs aren’t a turn off for me.
