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List Price: $68.99 | | Label: Paramount
Salesrank: 1413
Released: October 31, 2006 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Ever since she was a young girl, Melinda Gordon (Jennifer Love Hewitt) has been able to see and talk to dead people--earth bound spirits who have yet to cross over to the other side and who seek her help in communicating and resolving unfinished business with the living. Melinda sometimes has a hard time accepting her "gift," especially now that she's a newlywed and looking forward to starting her new life with her husband, Jim Clancy (David Conrad), a paramedic. Her friend and business partner in the antique store, Andrea Moreno (Aisha Tyler), is fascinated by Melinda's talent. Although Melinda embraces her unique "abilities" as a blessing and sometimes a curse, she always helps her clients--alive or dead--find emotional closure.
Description of Ghost Whisperer - The Complete First Season:
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
Ghost Whisperer - The Complete First Season Reviews:
kept me on the edge of my seat 
2009-10-14 - the complete first season was awesome, i just started watching ghost whisperer and i thought it amazing..so i had to buy the first season. It kept me on the edge of my seat Jennifer is great in this show I love it and i will recomend this to anyone. I just know i cried, laughed and loved..it wanted me to see more and more can't get enough.
The Ghost Whisperer - The Complete First Season
2009-09-14 - The videos arrived on-time and undamaged thanks to your excellent packaging! My wife is an avid fan, so we will be ordering more sets of this series as your service was excellent!
Many thanks!
Darrell Fisher
Even My Fellow Sap-Averse Cynics May Fall in Love with GW!
2009-07-27 - I only recently developed my deep addiction to this sneakily awesome show. Initially, I avoided GW because, based on what I'd seen and heard, it struck me as totally mock-worthy: like a retread of the impossibly corny Touched By An Angel, only featuring a younger, more cleavage-exposing heroine.
Much to my delighted surprise, though, the first season of Ghost Whisperer turned out to be among my favorite seasons of any TV show ever (and this is coming from someone who watches ridiculous amounts of TV!)
1)It's a show that exudes charm and warmth in virtually every scene and is also both smarter and funnier than most jaded critics would ever give it credit for.
2) Regardless of your belief system, GW is a surprisingly interesting exploration of the spiritual realm and gives those of us who love a good 'ghost story' tons of compelling ones to choose from.
3) It features some of the few genuinely----gasp---NICE and likable characters you'll find on TV and some terrific acting by the endlessly charming and likable Jennifer Love Hewitt. (For what it's worth, I'm a straight female, so my praise of JLH comes from genuinely finding her an appealing and believable actress rather than any sort of bias based on her, um, physical assets).
4) Perhaps most importantly, GW is genuinely uplifting and inspiring. Despite or perhaps because GW is a show that focuses on 'earthbound spirits' who are no longer alive, the show is among the most life-affirming you'll ever find.
At its heart, GW's got a comforting yet oddly believable view of life and death; love and loss; beginnings and endings etc. It's practically guaranteed to uplift even jaded, bitter cynics like I am ;)
As I mentioned in another review (for the, in my opinion, disappointing Season 4), I generally gravitate towards the sort of uber-clever, 'edgy' shows that TV critics tend to gush over. This show, though, is the welcome exception to that rule. Is it overly sentimental? Sometimes, sure. But it's also a beautiful, inspiring gem of a show that features good people doing (mostly!) good things. It's got more genuine heart and life-affirming warmth in every episode than most shows will provide in an entire season.
Ghost Whisperer. Season 1. 
2009-07-06 - Mystery and suspense with some supernatural thown in to make things different. Interesting videos. Looking forward to seeing season two.
some damage
2009-06-10 - Wonderful series. One of the discs has two episodes that will not play-- they are damaged (though new.)
This set was NOT cheap, so I was miffed at the damage.
