![]() ![]() To the critics: First, Amy is a PHYSICAL medium, so she feels a lot of what she's seeing, and that's partly why her genuine facial expressions appear on the show. They also don't need to use pseudo-scientific nonsense to try to give themselves credibility. It's not a hobby, or something that sounded like a good idea at the time for them. Amy and Steve have devoted their lives to being professional seekers of truth, and have the credentials to back that up. spend an hour dropping the F-bomb while scaring themselves and yelling at nothing. I don't know if Amy's abilities are real or not, and who cares? This show is way better than the shows where plumbers, models, etc. Steve and Amy work very well together, and you can tell that they get more comfortable working with each other as the show progresses. This is actually an original and amazing idea for a very old genre. The sensation of spinning around is just the kind of thing a bogus psychic would slip in because it sounds fitting. The victim wasn't spinning around as she suggests, it clipped a hill and exploded instantly. Also, just as an aside I looked into the helicopter crash she described. I like ghost hunting shows but this just seems very phoney to me. Did she get there by rendition or what? That bears some explaining I think. She tells a little girl in a previous episode that she was obsessed with that house as a child yet, the very next episode claims to have no idea where she is. If you really could see dead people wouldn't you be slightly more interested in looking at that than the camera? Then there's the Lizzie Borden house. The first thing I find unconvincing about her is the way she'll tell you there's a dead person stood right in front of her but she barely gives it a second glance. She's joined by a retired detective who does a great "I'm surprised at that!" face. Notably more accurate information than psychics ever give outside of this format, which has been used on shows like haunted homes etc. Then she reveals some uncannily accurate information. Amy Allan walks around a location she knows "nothing" about making faces that have an animatronics look about them. I watch all these paranormal shows but I think this is probably the worst I've seen. I would rather watch this than watch Snooki get DTF any day of the week. Good visuals, good sound effects, good music, and two excellent leads whom are competent in their field make this show worth watching. The US government wouldn't have sunk so much funding into remote viewing if they didn't think it had some practical application. Whether or not she can talk to ghosts isn't what concerns me it's the fact that there's a lot we don't know about the human brain or the nature of consciousness to assume our perception is limited to our current time/space continuum. I'm an agnostic, and reject any form of absolutism. Just for the record - I don't believe in anything. I have no reason to believe that she is deliberately misleading the audience or "faking" whatever it is that she's doing. IMO it makes her look more genuine as several times she appears downright embarrassed to talk about the things she experiences. Her behavior can get odd, which might confuse people or turn people off entirely. It's not unheard of for police to ask help from psychics to crack cases so it's possible that Steve as a former homicide detective has experience dealing with mediums in the past. So it's nice to see a character that is rooted in pure evidence. I have yet to see any of those shows feature a skeptical point of view longer than five minutes, let alone in every episode. I have watched MTV's Fear, Scariest Places on Earth, Ghost Adventures, Paranormal State and Psychic Kids. What I like about this show, is that Steve and Amy create an entirely new dynamic in the genre of paranormal investigation. This is television, it's not meant to give you the secrets of life after death. Save yourself - and us - the headache of getting upset over it. Third, if you don't like mediums, psychic stuff or ghost stories by all means skip it already. Second, the whole point of these kind of shows is to suspend your disbelief long enough to enjoy the show. First, there is no method that can accurately and rationally prove the existence of the paranormal (ghosts, demons, etc). I'm not sure what they're expecting when they turn on a show like this. How else could they create and market a show that doesn't totally lose focus or the original point of being broadcast on TV? The reviewers complaining about fakery puzzle me. Anyone with an ounce of brain matter to rattle around has already figured out that reality television is orchestrated for the most part. Let's have some context first: this is reality television. ![]()
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