YMMV / Ghost Whisperer

• Alternative Character Interpretation: Is Melinda a well-meaning woman trying to help the living and the dead or is she just a nosy person sticking her fingers in everyone's pies? Some of the episodes seem to imply both.
• Base-Breaking Character: Some fans see Delia as a Replacement Scrappy for Andrea and found it frustrating that it took so long for her to accept the existence of ghosts. Others liked the idea of a skeptic as a main character.
• Die for Our Ship: Nikki to some fans, because she gets in the way of Melinda and Jim/Sam, which however got better when Jim "returned".
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Out of Melinda's many partners in crime across the series, Andrea seems to be the fan-favorite despite only lasting a season.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Evan Peters as a ghost who eventually goes into the light in a season 5 episode after his role in American Horror Story: Murder House, where he played another ghost.
  • Henry Czerny appeared in the season 1 finale as a Federal Investigator looking into a plane crash. He would go on to play Conrad Grayson, a man who caused a plane crash, in Revenge.
  • In "Ghost Busted", Eli lies to Sam/Jim about Melinda being an FBI profiler. Both Jennifer Love-Hewitt and Aisha Tyler played FBI profilers on different seasons of Criminal Minds.
• Jerkass Woobie: Pete Murphy is a downplayed example, as he's still just a little kid, but he's very obnoxious to Melinda and was apparently very troublesome when he was alive.
• Never Live It Down:
  • From the way people talk about Melinda's wardrobe, you'd think she spent every episode in her underwear.
  • The show got a reputation for all the ghosts of the week appearing villainous but always being revealed to have been misunderstood or innocent. While that does happen a lot, there are plenty of villainous ghosts. Notable is "Friendly Neighbourhood Ghost" where the old man turns out to have been an abusive parent, and "The Last Execution" where the ghost of the week confesses that he did commit the murder for which he was executed.
• Questionable Casting:
  • Jamie Kennedy as a professor. Especially given this little incident.
  • Some might also have the reaction to Jay Mohr as a professor.
  • Season 5 sees an 8-year-old actor being cast to portray Melinda's 5-year-old son. He looks nowhere close to 5.
• Retroactive Recognition:
  • Henry Czerny, best known for playing Conrad Grayson in Revenge appeared in "The One".
  • Noah Gray-Cabey, best known for playing Micah Sanders on Heroes appears in the episode "Fury".
  • Laura Marano of Austin & Ally appears in the episode "Friendly Neighborhood Ghost".
  • Vanessa Marano of Switched at Birth appears in the season 4 episode "Ghost in the Machine".
  • Abigail Breslin of Little Miss Sunshine and Scream Queens (2015) appears as the titular character in the episode "Melinda's First Ghost"
  • Brie Larson is in the episode "Slam".
  • Elisabeth Moss of Mad Men and The Handmaid's Tale and Robert Buckley of iZombie appear in the episode "Unhappy Medium".
  • Matthew Morrison of Glee appears as a ghost in the episode "Bad Blood."
  • Isabelle Fuhrman of Orphan and The Hunger Games appears in the episode "Pieces of You"
  • Joey King of The Conjuring and Oz the Great and Powerful appears in the episode "Old Sins Cast Long Shadows".
  • Mary Mouser of Cobra Kai fame plays Madison Clark in "Dead To Me".

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