Spooky season may be over but Ghosts 2×06 ‘The Baby Bjorn’ is still serving spirited hijinks for days. With each character getting a chance in the spotlight, the ensemble is given a chance to shine. We knew Viking backstory was coming, and it couldn’t have come at a more opportune time. With a budding romance, cutthroat wheeling and dealing, and a questionable pineapple, this episode has pretty much everything.
Daddy Thor is in the House:
He’s got a lot of pointed critiques of journalism as a profession, and he unequivocally hates the Danes. This is the Viking’s time to shine. The daddy-ification of Thorfinn (Devan Chandler Long) was perhaps always inevitable. It’s no less delightful to see it come to fruition. The added twist that he’s an actual father is really just icing on the cake. In so many ways, Bjorn (Christian Jadah) is the son Thor deserves.
Watching Thor go on an entire journey in just under thirty minutes is hilarious, heartbreaking, and incredibly life-affirming. We expect nothing less from Ghosts at this point. It is a credit to his character that even after 1000 years, Thor is able to critically examine his own prejudices, and see his son in a new light. While there still may be work to do vis à vis Thor continuing to criticize certain personal hygiene habits. Instead, Thor is given the chance to grow, even in the afterlife, and he takes it with a vengeance.
A Blossoming Romance
Thor’s storyline on Ghosts 2×06 ‘The Baby Bjorn’ is further setting up his relationship with Flower (Sheila Carrasco). This episode gives us a chance to appreciate just how stuck in his ways Thor has become after approximately one thousand years of an afterlife, and how much he needs a fresh perspective like Flower’s to snap him out of it. The fact that he’s willing to open his mind to what Flower is saying, and appreciate her advice, has the potential to make them a beautiful partnership.
This episode further demonstrates how these two are fundamental opposites in so many ways. Yet, their contrasting personalities are complimentary in a really sweet way that is pretty sweet to watch. Sure, they might be from different eras. Flower may have a distinct appreciation for the Danes. However, it’s clear that they want the best for one another, and want to make the best of their respective afterlives. Thor and Flower have the potential to bring out the best in one another. Their ship is about ready to set sail.
The Actual Wolf of Wall Street in Action:
Trevor (Asher Grodman) has always had the potential to be so terrible. A Wall Street wiz-kid with an unhealthy obsession with Tara Reid? He’s a walking (or floating) recipe for disaster. Happily, he is among the best-written residents of Woodstone Manor. This episode is further proof that his wheeling and dealing always masks a massive heart. Underneath all of the bravado, he just wants to spend time with his friends.
One of the highlights of Trevor content on Ghosts 2×06 ‘The Baby Bjorn’ is his obsession with The Cutting Edge. This is the most relatable part of this character in this writer’s humble opinion. Watching D. B. Sweeney lose his peripheral vision gets more captivating each time. So too, does the massively illegal lift at the end. Hopefully, all of the residents of Woodstone get a chance to appreciate this absolute classic. Trevor shouldn’t stop in his quest to get everyone to watch it at least 20 times. It’s worth it.
A Meeting of the 1%:
Hetty (Rebecca Wisocky) and Trevor have already established that they are a comedic duo that needs to be featured way more than they are. We knew we could count on Alberta (Danielle Pinnock) to advocate for worker solidarity. Perhaps the more surprising development is that Hetty and Trevor managed to make their sickening amount of wealth relatable. It’s no easy feat. Ghosts can pull it off.
What Hetty and Trevor’s story does is demonstrate the necessity of friendship even in the afterlife. We don’t grow through this life alone. Why should the next life be any different? On a practical level, this story furthers the Ghosts lore. Of course, Sasappis (Román Zaragoza) is the one who deserves the prime real estate on the chair. However, it would all be for nothing if Hetty and Trevor weren’t there to operate the back rub-based economy. I told you, Ghosts can pull it off.
Sweet, Naive Sam and Jay:
Sam (Rose McIver) and Jay (Utkarsh Ambudkar) get sweeter every episode. Poor Sam must get exhausted constantly having to explain her ghostly powers to everyone, living and dead. It’s true that it’s still sad Jay doesn’t have a chance to see and speak to the ghosts. He’s so lovingly supportive of the ghostly residents of Woodstone. His fascination with the upside-down pineapple at the neighbors spells nothing but trouble.
Sam’s sweet naivety could very easily be overdone. Instead, she’s never diverted from her quest to make Thor’s afterlife just a little bit better. It’s a credit to her character that she’s able to tune out the chaos around her and help her ghost family in the most unorthodox ways. This just makes her more loveable and relatable. Sam needs to be protected at all costs.
Ghosts has a formula that works, and it knows it. Fleshing out each of these characters serves the greater story, and makes for a compelling package. Each new revelation about the ghosts’ backstories just adds to the show’s chaos in the best possible way. The Thor plot twist works because it allows us to appreciate this character more, flaws and all. All of these characters are worth knowing on a deeper level. The season is well underway, giving us the spooky goodness we love.
Other Spooky Thoughts:
- “Is it because I didn’t breastfeed you?”…hands down, the best line of the entire episode.
- The fact that Pete (Richie Moriarty) doesn’t like mustard makes him a tiny bit less relatable. We still love him though.
- Isaac’s (Brandon Scott Jones) biting humor being dialed up to 100 is working for this character. So are the constant Hamilton references.
Ghosts airs Thursdays at 8:30/7:30c on CBS.
