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.
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. ghosts s04e01 amr
The answer: Yes (mostly), and her name is Patience. The episode wastes no time. Sam (Rose McIver) and Jay (Utkarsh Ambudkar) are frantic, the ghosts are in a panic, and the basement is ominously quiet. We quickly learn that the hand belongs to Patience (a wonderfully unsettling Mary Holland), a Puritan ghost who has been living alone in the dirt for over 300 years. Hetty (Rebecca Wisocky)
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. The Weird: Where’s the Sass
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.