Review of SurrealEstate

SurrealEstate (2021– )
4/10
Started off somewhat original, now it's going downhill.
10 September 2021
After a few episodes, this show is headed right down the same old hollywood ghost clichés.

Let's have yet another show about ghosts who are stuck here "because they have unfinished business". Get over this stupid cliché already.

One of the first episodes has the team laughing at the newcomer for trusting that a ghost is who they say they are. And yet in episodes that follow, our main characters are believing all the ghosts at face value. What?

The things that most of these ghosts have to do to "move on" usually don't make sense in real-world logic or internal show-logic. The writers just pull crap out of thin air.

"Ghost, just go to sleep and when you see a light, walk towards it". Umm.. how does our main character know there is a "light"? Or that the ghost should sleep (or *can* sleep)? Why can't all the other ghosts in every other episode just do this? Where is this information coming from!?

There's the obligatory gay couple, the bitchy team member that hates the newcomer before it even makes sense to hate them (the writers just need another subplot to resolve), and like so many modern TV dramas, everyone talks like they're aware they're being filmed. The conversations are just not natural.

The show has potential and it's worth watching a few episodes to check it out. But I don't know how much more I will put up with.
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