The fantasy genre has been growing in popularity on television, but with so much of it being aimed equally at an adult audience, it's strange that fantasy TV shows are lacking in sex and sexuality. Unlike most genres, fantasy TV adaptations have been a hard sell relatively recently. It wasn't until Game of Thrones became the biggest show on television, and in some ways, the biggest show ever, that fantasy was taken seriously. Suddenly, the potential in the genre was evident, and different networks and streamers started to snap up fantasy IP.
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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