History Series / SurrealEstate

The series was originally canceled after its first season in 2021. However, on [[https://deadline.com/2022/05/surrealestate-previously-canceled-paranormal-drama-series-return-season-2-syfy-1235020384/ May 12, 2022]], the series was {{Uncancelled}}. Season Two premiered in October 2023.

* BigBadDuumvirate: [[spoiler:The Donovan House... and Luke Roman's stillborn twin sister, who has been screwing with his life for years because she resents that he lived while she died.]]

* BloodFeud: In "Set Your Flag on Fire", the Roman Agency has to deal with a neighborhood where an old blood feud has infects anyone who lives in the two houses separated by an old fence.

* BroughtDownToNormal: [[spoiler:At the end of the first-season finale, Luke loses his powers after his sister's spirit is finally exorcised. This continues in season 2, where he and the team must adjust to Susan being the only one with any sort of paranormal abilities.]]

** [[spoiler:It turns out that Luke's mother disappeared because the vengeful ghost of his stillborn twin sister tried to drive her to suicide. This eventually led her to the Donovan House, which captured the sister's spirit, freeing Luke's mother from her influence. It's unknown where his mom has been since then.]]

* LostLenore: [[spoiler:August lost his wife years ago, and has never really gotten over her.]]

* MissingMom: Luke's mother disappeared when he was a child, and he spent most of his childhood being raised by his single father.

* TookALevelInJerkass: In season 2, Roman is frustrated by his lost powers and takes out these frustrations on Susan, constantly belittling her, especially in front of the others. In "The Butler Didn't", she finally gets sick of this treatment and decides to take a break from the job.

* TookALevelInJerk: In season 2, Roman is frustrated by his lost powers and takes out these frustrations on Susan, constantly belittling her, especially in front of the others. In "The Butler Didn't", she finally gets sick of this treatment and decides to take a break from the job.

* RedHerring: Throughout the first half of "White Wedding", the team investigates the home of Susan's friend Priya, searching for some hint of the paranormal, but all they can find is traces of the ghost of Priya's father Dev, who shows no signs of malevolence. [[spoiler:The actual source of the paranormal problems comes from Priya's fiancee Leon, whose family is under a curse that kills the first love of ever son in the family.]]

The series was originally canceled after its first season in 2021. However, on [[https://deadline.com/2022/05/surrealestate-previously-canceled-paranormal-drama-series-return-season-2-syfy-1235020384/ May 12, 2022]], the series was {{Uncancelled}} with a Season Two expected to arrive in 2023.

* BroughtDownToNormal: [[spoiler:At the end of the first-season finale, Luke loses his powers after his sister's spirit is finally exorcised.]]

* ControlFreak: This is Susan's main character flaw - she has to do everything her way, and has trouble seeing things other people's way, which causes her to butt heads with Luke and everyone else at first.

** [[spoiler:The North Cabin became cursed after Samantha North, distraught over the deaths of her husband and her relatives, drowned herself in the nearby lake. Her desire to have her family back resulted in her relatives' spirits all becoming trapped in the cabin.]]

* FiveManBand: Luke is the hero, Zooey is the lancer, Anthony and August trade the smart/big guy roles back and forth, and Susan is the chick/the heart.

Cancelled after one season.

* RaisedCatholic: Phil used to be a Catholic priest before getting defrocked for being gay. He's become incredibly cynical towards the church since then, but sometimes he misses it.

* {{Hellhound}}: In the pilot, the Donovan house's cellar is being guarded by a hellhound. Roman is able to bribe it with a porkchop just long enough to take a quick look around.
* InsistentTerminology: Roman insists on referring to haunted houses as "stigmatized properties", as it was seen as a more credible term by the focus groups.
* ItsPersonal: In the pilot, Roman's interest in the Donovan house stems from the fact that his mother happened to live next door back before she disappeared, and she was last seen knocking on the front door.
* {{Jerkass}}: Susan's ex-boss, Bob Livingstone. He cheated on his wife with her and then fired her to save his own marriage, and then in "Quarantine" has the gall to try and convince Susan not to accept a major award, or at least not acknowledge her current employer, because he fears it would reflect badly on ''his'' agency if someone he fired continued to do strong business, especially with an agency he looks down on.

Luke Roman is the straight-talking head of the Roman Agency, a real-estate firm that specializes in rehabilitating "stigmatized properties" - haunted houses. Together with his eclectic team of experts, and new hire Susan Ireland, Roman investigates houses whose property values have been adversely affected by paranormal activity, either real or imagined.

* ControlFreak: This is Susan's main character flaw - she has to do everything her way, and has trouble seeing things other people's way, which causes her to butt heads with Roman and everyone else.

* EyeScream: In "Roman's Six", Roman deals with a house where everyone who enters it ends up dying of a gruesome eye-related injury.

* FalseFriend: Roman has a special classification for malevolent ghosts like Cindy who pose as imaginary friends - "Harvey", named for the imaginary rabbit from [[Film/{{Harvey}} the movie of the same name.]]

* WoundedGazelleGambit: In "The Harvey", Cindy is a malevolent spirit who poses as a sad, lonely little girl to manipulate people. Roman calls this sort of thing an LRG, or "Little Red's Grandmother".

-->"My way just works better than everyone else's! *beat* I just said that out loud, didn't I?"

** In "The Harvey", Cindy looks like a cute little girl until you make her mad enough, at which point the sharp teeth come out.

** [[spoiler:It turns out that Luke's mother disappeared because the vengeful ghost of his stillborn twin sister tried to drive her to suicide, which eventually led her to the Donovan House, which captured the sister's spirit, freeing Luke's mother from her influence. It's unknown where his mom has been since then.]]

* FakingTheDead: When a Clockmaker threatens to kill Megan, she and the Roman Agency [[spoiler:manage to throw her off the scent by planning an elaborate fake death before she starts watching, then acting as if it were spontaneous when she did, thus preventing her from fulfilling her action on time and defeating her.]]

* FieryRedhead: Susan is a redhead with pyrokinetic powers. They apparently manifested when she got pissed off at her ex-boyfriend and set his guitar on fire. That said, whatever anger-management issues she had seem to be in the past.

* {{Jerkass}}: Susan's ex-boss, Bob Livingstone, cheated on his wife with her, then fired her to save his own marriage, and then, in "Quarantine", has the gall to try and convince Susan not to accept a major award, or at least not acknowledge her current employer, because he fears it would reflect badly on ''his'' agency if someone he fired continued to do strong business, especially with an agency he looks down on.

* NotUsingTheZWord: Roman does not approve of calling malignant entities 'ghosts'. He even outright calls it the "G" word. He also has the euphemisms "Harvey" and "Lassie" - a Harvey is a malevolent spirit disguised as an imaginary friend, while a Lassie is a more helpful spirit that attaches itself to a child.

* RubberMan: While possessed by the Roadie, Augie briefly gains the ability to stretch out his arms.

* StraightGay: Father Phil looks and acts for all the world like a straight man, in sharp contrast to his husband Anthony, who enjoys singing Gilbert and Sullivan showtunes on the job.

* TroubledTeen: In the pilot, Susan deals with Lauren, a stressed-out, moody teenager who also happens to have telekinesis. Unable to control her powers, Lauren has been unconsciously lashing out at her parents and grandparents.

* BigBadDiumvirate: [[spoiler:The Donovan House... and Luke Roman's stillborn twin sister, who has been screwing with his life for years because she resents that he lived while she died.]]

* BrokenPedestal: In "For Sale by Owner", Luke finally meets the ghost of his long-missing mom, only to learn that [[spoiler:she wasn't taken to the other realm by force, she ''chose'' to go there, because she resented having to raise Luke and was relieved to be free of him.]]

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:The North Cabin became cursed after Samantha North, distraught over the deaths of her husband and her relatives, drowned herself in the nearby lake. Her desire to have her family back resulted in her relatives' spirits all becoming trapped in the cabin.]]