While The Simpsons season 34 isn’t perfect, the long-running animated sitcom is getting a lot of mileage out of parodying itself. It’s not easy for a television series to make fun of itself. Even the cleverest comedies struggle to make cutting, insightful satirical jabs about their production process. After all, if a show makes fun of its writing, its direction, and its characters, this can skirt dangerously close to mocking the viewers who are still invested in the series. However, this hasn’t stopped The Simpsons season 34 from managing to pull off this risky approach.
One of CBS' newest sitcoms, Ghosts , features a cast full of spectral characters that each hail from a distinct time period and come with their own unique backstory and death. Though each of the eight ghosts has a wildly different perspective based on their different experiences throughout history, they nonetheless form a sort of family, which is one of the show's greatest charms. After all, being stuck with the same people for all of eternity allows for plenty of time to get to know each other. Ghosts , which is an adaptation of a BBC show of the same name, stars Utkarsh Ambudkar and Rose McIver (who played Liv Moore on five seasons of iZombie ) as Jay and Sam, a young couple who inherit a mansion in upstate New York. To their surprise, however, the house also comes with several ghostly inhabitants, who Sam is able to see after a near-death experience. These are Thorfinn (Devan Long), Sasappis (Román Zaragoza), Isaac (Brandon Scott Jones), Hetty (Rebecca Wisocky...
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