The Sins of the (Grand)Mother.

With all the ghostly goings on in the cutthroat world of home buying, there have to be a few charlatans around.

I wouldn’t be volunteering to stay the night at the beautiful lake house at the centre of this episode, but of course there’s more to it. The spooky shenanigans are dismissed far too quickly, and my suspicions were proved right as we get a double-twist and a lake full of dead relatives who have a disturbing hold over their alive and kicking kin.

It’s a good job the team has tech that can record ghosts, it comes in handy. I enjoy the way Luke gently tries to reason with the captive cousin; it’s becoming clear that this job is actually a labour of love for him, and that it’s people he’s good with, whether they have a pulse or not. But what twisted thing in his childhood could have led him to discover that he was such a good ghost-whisperer?

A subplot allows for tensions in the team to be further explored – things aren’t tied up quite as neatly as it appeared, and it grounds the narrative with a certain verisimilitude that is a good foil for all the weird stuff. Which gets weirder as we uncover a few more personal facts about Luke and his past. Cold, cruel things… now that I was not expecting…

The characters and relationships are becoming as interesting as the spectres as a few expectations are flipped.

Verdict: If you thought your mother was judgemental… 8/10

Claire Smith