i am a pretty much a sucker for those ghost hunter shows. from the cheesy mockumentaries like discovery channel the haunting to scooby doo reality shows like ghost hunters. when i saw promos for a and e paranormal state i knew i was going to watch. especially when paranormal state was juxtaposed against a weak monday night football game. by the end of the pilot of paranormal state when the main character in this reality dance macabre gives a creepy kid a bottle of max von sydow holy water and reassures him by telling this boy that he and too and had a unspecified bad experience as a child with things that came out of the closet and the (catholic) church gave him a holy water to fend off the things coming out of the closet i knew i should have given monday night football another shot. the shtick behind paranormal state is a group of penn state students all got together and started their own ghost hunting club. or society. or super adventure club. and they run around pennsylvania researching the most terrible hauntings and the lost plot to an m. night shymalan movie. the they is kind of a misnomer. really paranormal state revolves around a nittany lion named ryan buell who would probably be running penn state yearly anime convention if it wasn not for this show. he is often accompanied on investigations by hot co eds and some other people seen in the credits but rarely caught on camera. hey and are they ghosts too. this is ryan buell show. paranormal state is his vehicle as we like to say in the biz. and and oh and what a dull ride in a vehicle he can be. did i mention ryan narrates the entire episode of paranormal state in a star date less director log voice over. almost immediately that gets annoying because the obvious intention is to give ryan ghost hunting some gravitas and but his filtered monotone does nothing but provoke grunts and laughs. seriously and every serious intonation sounds like the radio chatter from a call of duty video game. the investigations  the plot that each episode revolves around  are interesting on the surface. no haunted inns or restaurants to be found in paranormal state. this is a show about fearing the unknown like a good catholic boy and by god they give you stuff to fear. small children are harassed and things loom in the dark and voices encourage the living to kill and and the aleister crowely in me rubs my hands. of the two episodes i watched each revolved around violent and nasty hauntings tied to violent and nasty deaths. maybe. maybe not. everything in paranormal state is short handed into half hour and dog the bounty  er and ghost hunter blocks. every time there is an interesting and verifiable shred of evidence  the murder of a family in a farmhouse in the 1800s  the proof is waved in front of the viewer like a con artist trying to convince you a stack of papers currently under your nose is proof of that ten million coming from nigeria and then yanked away before you can get a good gander. at least with sci fi channel ghost hunters there is a somewhat over exhaustive need to trot out every possible shred of evidence and present it to the viewer. evps that could be a rat farting and cold spots in a drafty house and and orbs that even the ghost hunters themselves discount as dust. it is a sort of scooby doo like approach that makes ghost hunters . almost believable. whereas paranormal state claims to have evps but gives the viewer a ten second video clip of a wave file in garage band with no audio. yep and see and an evp and right. people are claiming to see dark figures in the basement. well and we will just go and see about that. while leaving the night vision camera on an enthralling stationary shot of the living room. ryan and the intrepid leader of this pack of penn state graduates and is claiming to see visions of a demon name he knows and that might be involved in a paranormal haunting. but he can not tell us and the audience and or his team of gothed out undergrads and because. he can not. you never say a demon name out loud and ryan informs the wide eyed co ed who dare inquires. well and how very very convenient for you. especially since this is a television show where the audience cannot read your mind. paranormal state is all turn and no prestige. the audience gets told what is supposedly happening but you never see an ounce of proof that the creepy kid is seeing dead people. not even grainy video of a chair moving and or a black blob running between prison cells. nothing. you are just told what happened by ryan in yet another mechanical voice over. if you are going to try and spook me dress it up a little. if you are trying to sway me and show me a orb or a blob and have the fat chick who works days at hot topic tell me why that black orb is really the spirit of an ax murderer. and if you want to make me watch a ghost hunting show give me something besides trotting out lorraine warren by the second episode. paranormal state is weak sauce. not really worth watching unless you are hard up for tv time and or just have that thin of a dvd collection. or unless you want to know what really happened in that closet with the holy water. 
i am a pretty much a sucker for those ghost hunter shows. from the cheesy mockumentaries like discovery channel the haunting to scooby doo reality shows like ghost hunters. when i saw promos for a and e paranormal state i knew i was going to watch. especially when paranormal state was juxtaposed against a weak monday night football game. by the end of the pilot of paranormal state when the main character in this reality dance macabre gives a creepy kid a bottle of max von sydow holy water and reassures him by telling this boy that he and too and had a unspecified bad experience as a child with things that came out of the closet and the (catholic) church gave him a holy water to fend off the things coming out of the closet i knew i should have given monday night football another shot. the shtick behind paranormal state is a group of penn state students all got together and started their own ghost hunting club. or society. or super adventure club. and they run around pennsylvania researching the most terrible hauntings and the lost plot to an m. night shymalan movie. the they is kind of a misnomer. really paranormal state revolves around a nittany lion named ryan buell who would probably be running penn state yearly anime convention if it wasn not for this show. he is often accompanied on investigations by hot co eds and some other people seen in the credits but rarely caught on camera. hey and are they ghosts too. this is ryan buell show. paranormal state is his vehicle as we like to say in the biz. and and oh and what a dull ride in a vehicle he can be. did i mention ryan narrates the entire episode of paranormal state in a star date less director log voice over. almost immediately that gets annoying because the obvious intention is to give ryan ghost hunting some gravitas and but his filtered monotone does nothing but provoke grunts and laughs. seriously and every serious intonation sounds like the radio chatter from a call of duty video game. the investigations  the plot that each episode revolves around  are interesting on the surface. no haunted inns or restaurants to be found in paranormal state. this is a show about fearing the unknown like a good catholic boy and by god they give you stuff to fear. small children are harassed and things loom in the dark and voices encourage the living to kill and and the aleister crowely in me rubs my hands. of the two episodes i watched each revolved around violent and nasty hauntings tied to violent and nasty deaths. maybe. maybe not. everything in paranormal state is short handed into half hour and dog the bounty  er and ghost hunter blocks. every time there is an interesting and verifiable shred of evidence  the murder of a family in a farmhouse in the 1800s  the proof is waved in front of the viewer like a con artist trying to convince you a stack of papers currently under your nose is proof of that ten million coming from nigeria and then yanked away before you can get a good gander. at least with sci fi channel ghost hunters there is a somewhat over exhaustive need to trot out every possible shred of evidence and present it to the viewer. evps that could be a rat farting and cold spots in a drafty house and and orbs that even the ghost hunters themselves discount as dust. it is a sort of scooby doo like approach that makes ghost hunters . almost believable. whereas paranormal state claims to have evps but gives the viewer a ten second video clip of a wave file in garage band with no audio. yep and see and an evp and right. people are claiming to see dark figures in the basement. well and we will just go and see about that. while leaving the night vision camera on an enthralling stationary shot of the living room. ryan and the intrepid leader of this pack of penn state graduates and is claiming to see visions of a demon name he knows and that might be involved in a paranormal haunting. but he can not tell us and the audience and or his team of gothed out undergrads and because. he can not. you never say a demon name out loud and ryan informs the wide eyed co ed who dare inquires. well and how very very convenient for you. especially since this is a television show where the audience cannot read your mind. paranormal state is all turn and no prestige. the audience gets told what is supposedly happening but you never see an ounce of proof that the creepy kid is seeing dead people. not even grainy video of a chair moving and or a black blob running between prison cells. nothing. you are just told what happened by ryan in yet another mechanical voice over. if you are going to try and spook me dress it up a little. if you are trying to sway me and show me a orb or a blob and have the fat chick who works days at hot topic tell me why that black orb is really the spirit of an ax murderer. and if you want to make me watch a ghost hunting show give me something besides trotting out lorraine warren by the second episode. paranormal state is weak sauce. not really worth watching unless you are hard up for tv time and or just have that thin of a dvd collection. or unless you want to know what really happened in that closet with the holy water. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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