March 3, 2025
Ghosts (BBC)
Coming from the minds of legendary British acting troupe The Six Idiots, I present to you, Ghosts! Ghosts is a British horror-comedy that follows the lives of Allison Cooper and her husband Mike after inheriting property from an unknown dead relative of Allison’s. The property is called Button House, a place with extensive history, water damage, skeletons in the basement (literally), and did I mention it’s being haunted by ghosts? Yes, Button House is haunted by ghosts, many ghosts in fact. These ghosts include a gay WWII Captain, a caveman, the most innocent Georgian-era woman who ever lived, and an ’80’s scoutmaster who was killed by his own scouts. The house is surely haunted, but Allison only becomes aware of this fact after falling from a window.
When Allison gets back home from the hospital, she discovers that she can speak with the dead, and more than that, they don’t want her there. Allison goes through the stages of grief as she navigates her new ghostly abilities and the fact that she lives with a lot more people than anticipated. Worse of all, she is also now stuck in Button House because her husband took out a tremendous amount of loans to pay for repairs on the home.
The show follows this wacky group of living and non-living roommates and explores heartwarming themes of found family, types of love, and grief. Sadly, this amazing show had its airtime cut short as the creators decided to end it after season 5 instead of continuing to a planned season 6. Luckily for lovers of the show, an audiobook and paperback book version have been made as additional material for Ghosts fans! If you don’t prefer British television, there is also an American and a German version that are still being aired.
You can watch Ghosts on YouTube or through Amazon Prime Video.
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