GHOSTS Post-Mortem: Joe Port and Joe Wiseman Share Insight Into That Delightful Jay Twist
December 19, 2024 by Marisa Roffman
“A Very Arondekar Christmas Part 1” and “A Very Arondekar Christmas Part 2” – A leaky water heater mishap threatens to ruin holiday plans as Sam and Jay prepare to host Jay’s hard-to-please dad, Mahesh (Bernard White), difficult-to-impress mom, Champa (Sakina Jaffrey), and sister Bela (Punam Patel), on a one-hour GHOSTSMAS special of the CBS Original series GHOSTS, Thursday, Dec. 19 (8:00-9:01 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): Rose McIver as Samantha, Utkarsh Ambudkar as Jay, Betsy Sodaro as Nancy, Richie Moriarty as Pete, Brandon Scott Jones as Isaac, and Danielle Pinnock as Alberta. Photo: Bertrand Calmeau/CBS ©2024 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
[Warning: This post contains spoilers for the Thursday, December 19 episode of GHOSTS.]
Though GHOSTS has done a number of possessions over its four-season run, the CBS comedy threw a curveball in its Christmas episode, “A Very Arondekar Christmas”: Pete (Richie Moriarty) accidentally possessed Jay (Utkarsh Ambudkar), but the former’s ghost power (which allows him to leave the property) meant they had to try and use an exorcism to get the extra spirit out of Jay’s body. But instead, the exorcism removed Jay from his physical being, putting Jay’s spirit among the ghosts. (While Jay got to meet and hang out with the other Woodstone ghosts, Pete, for his part, was in charge of Jay’s body…as Jay’s family was in town.)
“It just sort of evolved through talking it out,” GHOSTS showrunners Joe Port and Joe Wiseman tell Give Me My Remote via email. “Once we realized Pete would require an exorcism to expel (because he can cross the ghost boundary and thus can’t be expelled in the ‘normal’ manner), we got excited about the idea of the wrong soul being expelled, namely Jay’s.”
And while Jay getting to finally meet the ghosts was a long time coming, he notably didn’t get to meet Pete—arguably the spirit he has the closest bond with.
“It’s a cruel irony that Jay met all the ghosts besides the one that wants to meet him most, Pete,” Port and Wiseman acknowledge. “But it still leaves that big moment to happen another time, and given their bromance, perhaps it’s worthy of its own moment.”
The two men had a lot on their plate in the hour beyond their missed opportunity, too: Pete discovered his daughter and grandson were moving away and used Jay’s body as a way to deliver a possibly final goodbye. Meanwhile, Jay used his ghostly time to discover why his father was hesitant about him opening up a restaurant—and when Jay got his body back, he told his dad the restaurant was about celebrating the risks of life…and it was named after Mahesh (Bernard White), too.
Going forward, “Pete will certainly miss his family, but he’s grateful to Jay for the role he played in facilitating him getting to say goodbye and celebrate Christmas with his daughter and grandson,” the showrunners say. “And Jay made big leaps with his parents, which he (and Sam) will carry forward.”
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