OK, I'll admit it, lame as it sounds I run home every Friday night to watch this show. It's a little bit of scary with some touching romance thrown in. I have even lied to my hairdresser and told him I had a date or an important meeting to get out of there in time so I could plant myself in front of my TV to watch this hour long escape from reality. I also have a source who Tivo's it for me just in case I am not home for it. I have taken a lot of mocking and been the butt of a lot of jokes for loving it so, but I stood firmly in my devotion to Melinda Gordon and her ghostly antics. Most people who know me do not understand what I see in this show and laugh at me for watching it. Everyone knows....do not call between 8 and 9 on Friday nights because I will not answer my phone and that is that. Last night may have changed my Friday nights forever. Let me explain.
In case you've been missing out on this show it is basically a fantasy and that is why I love it so. Jennifer Love Hewitt is Melinda Gordon, a young newlywed who has the ability to speak to and see the dead, or "earthbound spirits". The premise of the show is that she meets these spirits who are troubled by something that is preventing them from crossing over into the next life or existence. Along with the help of her wonderfully supportive, hunky husband Jim Clancy, she solves whatever mystery that is causing the spirit to be stuck in the "crossing over" part of dying and she helps them say goodbye to this world and the trappings of it and sends them off into the "light". I realize this sounds lame but you have to understand something. My daily life is so stressful and full of difficult situations and far from ideal. This damned show gave me an escape from all of that.
Jennifer Love Hewitt is gorgeous. I never liked her before this show. She actually irritated me and I never found her even remotely attractive but on this show she is is a very likable character and they really play up her beauty. For the men watching she flashes major cleavage in the bedtime scenes with her adoring hubby Jim. Her wardrobe and makeup is fun to look at for someone who is interested in fashion and beauty. Her husband is eye candy for me. He is featured in various states of undress on each show too. It's subtle, it's usually coming out of the shower or getting ready for bed, nothing purely gratuitous. He is really not my type per se, but he is pretty easy on the eyes.
So why am I so upset and where is this going? Well here it is. Last night, CBS messed up my perfect little Friday nites forever because..............................................THEY KILLED JIM CLANCY OFF THE SHOW!!!! Yes, that's right. JIM IS DEAD. Jim, the yang to Melinda's yin has been murdered by the idiot writers of this show. Now years ago, they murdered Melinda's best friend, killed her off the show too. Last year they killed her father and sent her cohort on a sabbatical. Now her husband. This show has officially jumped the shark for me.
The thing I loved about Jim was that he was always there for Melinda. He was the loving, adoring, perfect hubby that does not exist in real life. I loved the scenes when she would come home from a hard day of ghost whispering and he would be there waiting for her with a glass of wine, cooking her dinner. His character was pretty meh. He pretty much existed to support her. AND WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THAT?? Female characters have been doing this for YEARS!! It's about time a man existed for the purpose of supporting the female character! Not to mention that these two actors have amazing chemistry together. It's totally believable that they are madly in love with each other and that is quite wonderful to see. Please CBS....why can't you let me have my little fantasy that a man like this may actually exist out there? Why must everything be so dark and reality based? This show is a fantasy dammit!! To kill off a beloved main character is just complete insanity. When he told her he was dead and he went code blue in the hospital scene, I cried more than Jennifer Love Hewitt did! This season was supposed to be about them starting a family. Now why the hell could that not have been enough? Why is every show about broken relationships? Everyone is divorced, single, a widow or widower. Everyone is cheating and philandering. There is nothing on TV that represents a happy, stable relationship. This was it! And now they've ruined it! I am not a huge TV watcher to begin with. This was really the only show I watched on a regular basis.
HEAR ME NOW CBS: BRING BACK JIM OR I AM DONE WITH YOU! You did it with Bobby Ewing on Dallas back in the day and it was ridiculous, but it satisfied people who watched for his character and the relationship between him and Pam. If Melinda doesn't wake up and realize that this has been a horrible dream I am officially done with this show as are many others. And don't even think about bringing him back as a ghost and having her have some bizarre relationship with him as a dead guy!! I want a real flesh and blood Jim back or you have lost me!
CBS...YOU SUCKASS!
2 comments:
I've only seen part of one episode of this show and it looked pretty good. I don't know why I never tuned in. I actually like JLH, too. She is beautiful.
It almost sounds like the actor wanted out of the show. He may turn up in something else.....which, I know, does not help your case at all. I hate when they mess up a good show.
Maybe I'll give it a shot on Friday and see if I get hooked.
Oh L, I am telling you, no one was more shocked than me to love this stupid show but heaven help me I do. I race home for it, I love it that much. I have now heard that he is not leaving the show but he is officially dead so this does not bode well at all! :(
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