Review – Episode 50

Ghost hunters from high-band cable tackle a haunted asylum. The trick here is that it’s two shows rather than one. The first is a band of skeptics dedicated to debunking ghostly presences, and the second is a pack of true believers led by a religious fanatic. Do I even have to tell you that most of the plot revolves around disputes between the opposing “ideologies”? Oddly, the production had a couple of strong points. It was set in a modern-looking hospital rather than the wrecked-out Danvers Asylum or reasonable facsimile thereof. And it packed a few genuinely spooky ghosts. But by the end the foolish storyline drove it into more familiar, bad territory. See if desperate