Ghosts (CBS, 2021-present) is an American adaptation of the British series about a couple who inherit a haunted mansion and can see and communicate with the ghosts living there. It has become one of CBS's most popular comedies. The supernatural premise raises specific theological questions.
Ghosts is genuinely funny and unusually clean for a network comedy. The ensemble cast — ghosts from different historical eras — produces clever comedy from their cultural clashes. There is no sexual content, minimal profanity, and no dark or disturbing themes. For network television, it is remarkably inoffensive. The living characters Samantha and Jay are a happily married couple whose relationship is depicted positively throughout.
Ghosts' premise requires a specific afterlife theology: people who die become ghosts who linger at the place of their death, retain their full personality and memories, and have no access to God, heaven, judgment, or any spiritual reality beyond their haunting location. This secular ghost mythology — presented entertainingly — is in direct tension with the biblical afterlife (Hebrews 9:27: "it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment," Luke 16's account of the rich man and Lazarus, Revelation's picture of final judgment). See Ghosts CBS overview.
Discerning adult Christians can enjoy Ghosts as light entertainment while remaining aware that its afterlife framework is theologically false. It should not be children's viewing — the afterlife theology is too central to the show's premise to ignore for young viewers whose understanding of death and eternity is forming.
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