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GHOSTS Post-Mortem: Joe Port and Joe Wiseman Warn ‘No Good Deed Goes Unpunished’

October 17, 2024 by  

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“Patience” – While Sam and the ghosts race to find him, Isaac comes face to face with Puritan ghost Patience (Mary Holland) for the first time since she was lost in the dirt, on the fourth season premiere of the CBS Original series GHOSTS, Thursday, Oct. 17 (8:30-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network, and streaming on Paramount+ (live and on demand for Paramount+ with SHOWTIME subscribers, or on demand for Paramount+ Essential subscribers the day after the episode airs)*. Pictured (L-R): Utkarsh Ambudkar as Jay, Rose McIver as Samantha, Devan Chandler Long as Thorfinn, and Asher Grodman as Trevor. Photo: Bertrand Calmeau/CBS ©2024 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

[Warning: This post contains spoilers for the Thursday, October 17 season premiere of GHOSTS.]

Woodstone has a new inhabitant: Patience (Mary Holland).

After the Puritan kidnapped Isaac (Brandon Scott Jones) on the Thursday, October 17 season premiere of GHOSTS, he was able to talk her down…and she brought him a friend, Sass (Román Zaragoza), so they could join her in the dirt. But after Patience caught the duo making fun of her, she let them go.

But when they realized Patience was under the fountain—thanks to a lingering leak—Sam (Rose McIver) suggested they bring her into the house. Trevor (Asher Grodman) has his own idea: Form a ghost chain and retrieve Patience that way.

Now, she’s in Woodstone, bunking with Alberta (Danielle Pinnock), and “part of the story of Patience is no good deed goes unpunished,” GHOSTS co-showrunner Joe Port says with a laugh to Give Me My Remote.

“Sam, I think, is one of the spearheads of helping everybody look [at] Patience with some sympathy,” Port says. “And Sam is a kind of glass half-full, ‘look on the bright side’ person, and tries to see the best in everyone. And as the arc of Patience’s time in the house goes on, she’s going to bear the worst brunt of it, of this decision to help this person out.”

The writers had a tricky line to toe, after ending the second season with another ghost disappearing. (In season 3, the ghosts spent part of the season thinking Flower was sucked off; she was actually just stuck in a well.)

“We consciously wanted to make sure it didn’t feel similar to the Flower thing,” co-showrunner Joe Wiseman says. “Now we know [from the season 3 finale] what happened to Isaac. Even though there are still question marks about [what was to come], we know she has him. Where are they? We don’t know. But he’s not…he didn’t get sucked off. I can say that Isaac is going to be in every episode. It’s not like it’s another thing where Isaac’s going to be gone for a number of episodes, and we’re trying to figure out what happened. So I think it will feel very different from the last [cliffhanger].”

And the premiere also allowed them to tap into something they have enjoyed utilizing throughout the series. “A lot of our best episodes have this coming together of the ghosts to kind of do the right thing,” Port says. “I think this falls into that category. It’s a really funny story, but it takes a touching turn, and I’m really excited for people to see Mary Holland as Patience. She’s fantastic. And we don’t think we’re done with her; we have plans.”

GHOSTS, Thursdays, 8:30/7:30c, CBS

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