
Started October 1, 2017 · Canceled · Based on 1 season, 16 episodes through July 22, 2018 · TV-14 · 22 min
Ghosted follows Leroy Wright, a former Los Angeles detective, and Max Jennifer, a science professor who believes aliens took his wife. A secret group called the Bureau Underground recruits the two men to investigate strange events and protect the world. Their cases involve ghosts, monsters, aliens, time travel, and a hidden threat. The show uses buddy comedy, silly office jokes, and light action while the two very different men learn to trust each other.
The Bureau has a visibly mixed team, including a black male lead, a black female weapons and technology expert, a doctor played by a South Asian actor, and a female captain who once flew military test planes. Those choices make representation easy to notice, but the season does not make race, sex, or identity part of its main conflict. The story returns to friendship, grief, strange science, office loyalty, and the clash between belief and doubt. A later run of episodes changes the workplace and brings more focus to an office wire, a public leak, and the search for missing agent Checker, but it still stays a light paranormal comedy.
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These are the editorial factors and ratings behind our score for Ghosted.
Woke representation / casting
Ghosted gives the Bureau a visibly mixed core team. The show places a black male lead, a black female weapons and technology expert, a doctor played by a South Asian actor, and a female former Air Force test pilot in important jobs. These choices make representation easy to notice across the season. The characters work on paranormal cases instead of discussing race or gender, so the casting signal stays mild rather than driving the story.
30%
Woke political dialogue
Not present. The season uses jokes about government secrecy, Russia, and surveillance, but its dialogue does not push a modern activist or identity-based political message.
0%
Identity-driven story themes
Not present. The continuing stories focus on paranormal cases, grief, friendship, work, and the fight between science and belief. Race, sex, sexuality, and identity do not drive a season-long plot.
0%
Western institutional / cultural critique
Not present. The Bureau is secretive, silly, and sometimes badly run, but the jokes target workplace chaos and paranormal rules. The show does not build a modern activist critique of family, men, religion, capitalism, or Western institutions.
0%
Woke character or canon changes
Not relevant. Ghosted is an original series about a new Bureau Underground, not an adaptation of established characters or a real historical story.
0%
Anti-woke backlash and complaints
Not present. Public discussion centers on uneven comedy, the cast, the midseason change, ratings, and cancellation. No reliable anti-woke complaint about the show’s identity or political content appears in the reviewed coverage.
0%
Creator track record context
Tom Gormican has no documented activist profile, and most of the writers and directors have little political or identity-driven history. Jamie Babbit brings a strong queer-film background, while Ben Karlin brings a stronger record of left-leaning political satire. Adam Scott has mainstream liberal causes in his public record. Those links add some background, but no clear activist framing is tied to Ghosted itself.
28%
Production