The episode smartly uses her as a mirror for the Woodstone ghosts. For all their squabbling, Sass, Alberta, Flower, and Thor have become a found family. Patience represents their past—a time when they were less forgiving, more rigid, and frankly, cruel. The guilt is palpable, especially for Isaac (Brandon Scott Jones), who delivers a surprisingly emotional monologue about the shame of being a coward.
Also, the "B-plot"—Jay trying to impress a food critic via Zoom while a ghost screams in the background—is fun but forgettable. We missed Sassapis’ sarcastic commentary and Flower’s spaced-out wisdom. “Patience” is a solid season opener that does exactly what a premiere should: resolve the cliffhanger, introduce a fascinating new dynamic, and remind us why we love this cast. While the resolution comes a little too easily, Mary Holland’s performance as the dirt-crusted Puritan is so perfectly creepy-comedic that you’ll forgive the rushed ending. ghosts s04e01 amr
The question on every fan’s mind: Is Isaac okay? And who is the new spectre in the basement? The episode smartly uses her as a mirror
The show has promised that Patience will “haunt the perimeter” and return when it snows. Here’s hoping she brings more hellfire (and fewer moles) in Episode 2. The guilt is palpable, especially for Isaac (Brandon
After a cliffhanger that left us screaming into the void (literally) for seven months, Ghosts is back. Season 4, Episode 1—titled —picks up approximately two seconds after Sam dropped the lantern in the dirt and watched Isaac get yanked into the ghost hole by a pale, creepy hand we’d never seen before.
Hetty (Rebecca Wisocky). Her dry, WASP-y horror at Patience’s “uncouth” dirtiness is comedy gold. Watching her try to negotiate with a zealot using cocaine-era socialite logic is a masterclass in farce. The Weird: Where’s the Sass? If there’s one minor quibble, it’s that the premiere feels a bit rushed to reset the status quo. After a tense negotiation, Patience agrees to live in the dirt outside the mansion rather than the basement—effectively writing her out as a recurring threat. It feels like a cheat. A ghost this scary deserved a three-episode arc, not a 40-minute timeout.
Ghosts airs Thursdays on CBS and streams next day on Paramount+. Were you satisfied with the Patience arc, or did you want her to stay longer? Drop a comment below. 👻