Ghost Whisperer - The Complete First Season | 
 enlarge | Directors: Bill L. Norton, David Hugh Jones, Eric Laneuville, Ian Sander, James Chressanthis
Actors: Jennifer Love Hewitt, David Conrad, Camryn Manheim, Jay Mohr, Aisha Tyler
Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  80 reviews
Sales Rank: 2996
Format: Box Set, Color, Dolby, Ntsc, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 6
Running Time: 960
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.4 x 1
MPN: PARD078914D
UPC: 097360789140
EAN: 0097360789140
ASIN: B000GG4Y28
Theatrical Release Date: October 31, 2005
Release Date: September 19, 2006
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Product Description
All 22 hautingly mysterious episodes from the 1st season on 6 discs Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 10/31/2006 Starring: Jennifer Love Hewitt Aisha Tyler Run time: 960 minutes Rating: Nr
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Ghost Whisperer is not a show for cynics (or anyone who hates everything with the word "whisperer" attached to it). Though half of the show aims to make your flesh creep, the other half works just as hard to make everything warm and fuzzy. Ghosts walk into Melinda Gordon's life the way snappy dames walked into Sam Spade's office, hitting her up for aid with a hard-luck story and a whole lot of strings attached. Her job is to help them untie the emotional knot that's keeping them earthbound--which usually involves, in one way or another, telling a still-living friend or relative how much the dead person loved them. Whether it's a Vietnam vet who never met his son, a standup comedian who committed suicide, a bride who died on her big day, or a poltergeist child, in the end Melinda--assisted by her hunky paramedic husband Jim and vaguely useless best friend Andrea--will find a way to lead them to the light. (Ghost Whisperer is evasive about its theological implications, but Melinda's black-hatted nemesis from the season's end has a distinctly devilish air.) Keeping a foot in both worlds as Melinda is Jennifer Love Hewitt (Party of Five, Garfield), an actress who doesn't seem entirely natural; between her cartoonish physical dimension (the show isn't shy about displaying her bosom), her fake eyelashes, and the seemingly molded contours of her face, she's like a life-sized doll. Unfortunately, this quality lends a similarly plastic feel to her telegenic smile and earnest looks of compassion. The scripts are strictly middle-of-the-road tv fare, with obvious turns of plot and heavy-handed emotional crises, but the special effects conjure some eeriness. Extras include docs on the show's development, the lovely opening credits (based on the art of Maggie Taylor), and the paranormal investigators whose work inspired the show, along with a handful of episode commentaries and deleted scenes. Fans will not feel cheated. --Bret Fetzer
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 Not the Show I Need November 10, 2008
My girlfriend and sister used to get together to watch this show every Friday, but they noticed some problems. Why must every episode, for instance, break down into emotional hysteria in the final act? Is it too much to do some location shooting so the show doesn't look so tied to a back lot set? And how much of Jennifer Love Hewitt's cleavage must they display in every episode?
The show plainly aims for a primarily female audience. Girl-bonding and loving-hubby themes are mainstays of the structure. But it also tries to drum up suspense and horror. I won't say the two can't go together, but the pattern is distinctly repetitive. Nearly every episode begins with Hewitt's character, Melinda Gordon, trembling in fear of some gruesome spirit; nearly every episode ends with Gordon in tears of mourning as she explains to the spirit why crossing over isn't so bad.
Perhaps the mainly male production team thinks that teary-eyed protestations of limp theology will reach a girly audience. And perhaps they're right, since the show has a large loyal following. But women I trust, like my sister and my girlfriend, assure me that when the show piles on the same structure week after week, it taxes their ability to take the emotions seriously.
Though the show aims for a mainly female audience, it never misses a chance to render good-looking women like Jennifer Love Hewitt and Aisha Tyler as eye candy. I suspect the creative team thinks men will watch more if there's a hint of skin. And I can't deny that my girlfriend is sick of me hitting the rewind button every time Sigourney Weaver strips to her skivvies in "Alien." But men need that eye candy in a story we can get behind, not one that peters out in favor of a weepy sermon just when things are getting good.
This show's spirit world is especially weak tea. We hear a lot about the light and, in a handful of episodes, about the dark, but they are never defined. Whenever Melinda Gordon is pressed on this question, she finks. My suspicion is that the creative team wants to avoid offending any particular religion. They accomplish this task by addressing none of them. Considering that this question comes up in nearly every episode, I find a "ho-hum" coming on every time we approach the final act.
This series is very loosely based on the work of spiritists James Van Praagh and Mary Ann Wintkowski, both of whom are interviewed in the special features of this DVD collection. Don't watch them. It's amazing how they can discuss something as potentially mind-blowing as talking with the spirits of the dead, and still come across as uninteresting wet rags.
I know many people enjoy this show, and I don't want to take anything from them. If this is your taste, bless your heart. But when I deal with such potentially meaty subjects, I don't want my story to wimp in the clutch. I look forward to a show which addresses questions like these without giving up its teeth. This show just doesn't meet my needs.
 One of our favorite shows.... November 2, 2008
Ghost Whisperer - The Complete First Season
We started watching Ghost Whisperer last year. It quickly became one of our favorites.
Each episode combines a mixture of fear and tears as Melinda helps "earthbound" spirits complete their unfinished business before crossing over to "the light".
We enjoyed the third season so much that we just had to get the first season. We plan on getting the second season when we are done with the first.
Excellent product November 1, 2008
Excellent product, what I expected. Interesting and dramatics episodes. keep you expecting what is going to happen the next second. Very real and logical. A new way to see what is happening on the other side and how "people" act after death.
 I have only one complaint September 13, 2008
Great Show! It's a cross between "Supernatural" and Touched By An Angel". Not as spooky as "Supernatural" but caring stories as "Touched By An Angel" was. I admire strong women roles as Jennifer Love Hewitt does by playing Melinda Gordon. She's married, but have you noticed she kept her last name. Awesome! There was one episode, although it may have been season 2 ( I just watched season 1 and season 2 these last 3 weeks), where her husband said something like "I can't let You" and she says "Let Me". No man is going to tell her what to do. COOL! It's nice to see a husband stand by his wife. In the real world that wouldn't happen. Maybe more shows like this and the males of our society may follow. I did say I have one complaint. This is a great entertaining show, great actresses and actors, great stories, keeps me interested. But, can you please get her breast out of my face!!! Way to much cleavage showing. :-)
Completely Enjoyable and Entertaining August 15, 2008
For fans of this series, this is a must. Great entertainment and way to catch up on storyline if you missed any episodes. A+ on the speedy service after ordering.
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