[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Ghosts Season 4 Episode 12, “It’s the End of the World as We Know It and What Were We Talking About?”]
Ghosts‘ long-awaited restaurant opening for Woodstone’s Mahesh lastly arrived within the newest episode, “It’s the Finish of the World as We Know It and What Have been We Speaking About?” however the celebration got here with its challenges due to Hippie spirit, Flower (Sheila Carrasco).
Often taking part in a reasonably low-key function, Flower’s second of psychological readability on this episode results in some challenge-inducing shenanigans when she believes the tip of the world is close to. When the date, February 13, 2025, is uttered, it brings again to Flower, a reminiscence of cult chief Bruce (Will Greenberg) declaring the world would finish on that day.
Decided to save lots of her associates, Flower tries warning Sam (Rose McIver) and Jay (Utkarsh Ambudkar) of the approaching apocalypse and goes as far as to recruit the basement ghosts to incapacitate the kitchen crew with their ghost energy. What’s their ghost energy, you would possibly ask? It seems they’ve the power to provide a residing individual cholera for a day in the event that they stroll via them.
Going to such an excessive leaves Jay with out a crew to prepare dinner, and Flower faces Sam’s disappointment over the matter because the predicament leaves her and Jay unsure they’ll even be capable of open Mahesh. In the long run, an answer is reached when Sam makes use of her means to speak with the ghosts to assist facilitate the motion within the kitchen, directing Bela (Punam Patel), Mark (Tristan D. Lalla), and Jay with the assistance of the ghosts talking to her, Ratatouille type, for individuals who know.
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Whereas all the things works out for the most effective, the expertise is a studying lesson for Flower who discovers that all the things she was taught to imagine by the cult isn’t essentially true. “I used to be so excited to lastly get to recollect one thing as a personality,” Carrasco tells us of Flower’s storyline within the episode. “Not solely simply to have the ability to have a narrative to essentially sink my tooth into as an actor, however for it to be one thing that’s so dynamic and actually type of world-ending for the restaurant itself.”
Carrasco says the arc permits her to raised perceive Flower transferring ahead, “[Being] in a position to dive into the cult backstory was so enjoyable since you truly get to see simply how manipulative Bruce was and what a follower she was and the way she believed him. It’s type of heartbreaking, but additionally actually endearing,” she provides.
As for why the date managed to stay in Flower’s thoughts, Carrasco notes, “Flower was on this cult for not less than a number of years. I imply, she was in all probability one of many prime individuals within the cult by the point she left. We don’t know why she truly left, which I believe goes to be one other cool factor we will discover sooner or later,” she provides. “And we don’t know what occurred to Bruce. We don’t know if he’s nonetheless alive, which can also be very thrilling, however she was in deep. And so I believe that this spiel he offers firstly of the episode, she in all probability heard this virtually each day for all of these years she was there… and so for her, that’s been the reality.”
Listening to the date triggered her into motion, resulting in the basement ghosts’ present being revealed. However why couldn’t Flower have been the one to sabotage the kitchen, making the cooks excessive fairly than sick? “I truly requested that and one of many issues we realized was, properly then that might simply give the kitchen workers the munchies and never essentially make them worse cooks. We truly noticed in a Season 2 episode that getting excessive truly made Jay a greater prepare dinner,” Carrasco factors out.
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Fortunately for Flower, asking the basement ghosts for assist got here simply due to their fondness for her. “I simply love that they’re those that assist her out they usually imagine her and have time for her. I believe that’s a extremely cool relationship with them,” Carrasco provides.
Whereas her try to save lots of her family members from a non-existent apocalypse backfired, Flower’s lesson about unlearning the falsehoods she picked up within the cult is actually going to stay, if she will help it. “I hope what she takes from that is that she has a newfound household in the home and what she was searching for when she left her life at regulation faculty and located the cult with Bruce, she truly discovered it right here at Woodstone with everybody,” Carrasco says. “Sadly, she needed to exit of her manner and get misplaced within the commune and all these hijinks with a view to discover it.”
As Carrasco places it, “I hope that she is aware of that she’s in a spot with individuals she will be able to belief and is just a bit bit extra skeptical of different individuals usually.” And she or he teases in upcoming episodes viewers will get to see her lucid facet at play. “With out giving an excessive amount of away, she’s truly very insightful and type of has everybody’s quantity. And when individuals are as much as one thing she catches them.”
In Carrasco’s eyes, this facet of Flower is what she calls “Susan,” or her identify earlier than she joined the cult. “Susan goes to start out peeking via a bit bit extra and having extra enjoyable with the opposite ghosts and stunning them in actually cool methods,” Carrasco teases.
Relating to that Ratatouille nod that helped salvage the night and launch the restaurant Mahesh with a profitable service, Carrasco says, “I’m simply so joyful that Flower was in a position to salvage a bit little bit of the destruction and in such a enjoyable, cool manner. To begin with, Ratatouille is a superb film. I believe everybody can agree on that. So it was cool to create this entire Ghostatouille episode as a result of I believe it’s one thing we will reference going ahead and do extra of really.”
Carrasco even shares that she had hoped to go much more methodology with the idea. “I truly had pitched, ‘Might I please not less than get confused as Flower and possibly get on Pete’s shoulders and attempt to truly do Ratatouille?’ However we didn’t have time for that,” she shares. Fingers crossed that imaginative and prescient can come to life in a future episode.
For now, keep tuned to see what else the spirits of Woodstone rise up to as Season 4 of Ghosts continues, and tell us what you considered the enjoyable installment within the feedback part, under.
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