Ghosts UK Season 2 Episode 7 Review: Perfect Day

Ghosts UK Season 2 Episode 7, “Perfect Day,” ceremonially closes out this season with a celebration of love, acceptance, and outrageous surges of violence.

This momentous wedding has everything from two brides to a fight club to an appearance from the always delightful miscommunication trope.

Ghosts UK Season 2 fully embraces an era of chaos and comedic storytelling that fits like a well-tailored suit. All that’s left is watching this show strut down that aisle and straight to success.

The Wedding Planner

A personal highlight of this wedding taking over Button House is allowing The Captain to become who he is meant to be — that super intense, gay wedding planner/assistant from every early 2000s rom-com (usually played by Stanely Tucci).

He flourishes as he uses his military training to keep this wedding from going off the rails. Best of all, his intensity occasionally slips into diva territory.

But his softer, more supportive leadership qualities also find purchase in this role.

He keeps Alison focused on saving the wedding, pushing her to find a solution and cheering her on from the sidelines. He is a comforting shadow at her side to boost morale, and I love to see this character utilized in such a way.

And his cheerleader attitude extends to all women. He shuts down Fanny’s negative comments about the brides, saying, “It’s chic, and it’s now, and if it makes her feel good.” I fully believe The Captain has been dying for the day he could use chic casually in a sentence.

What Is Love?

Lady Button makes it difficult to love her by design. It’s undoubtedly easier to embrace characters like Robin when he says, “Monopoly is a trap.”

However, this episode does a fantastic job of disrupting her regression with a criminally under-used Humphrey (also played by Laurence Rickard), having her stick her nose up at every element of this wedding with disgust as he is forced to listen.

I thoroughly enjoy that no matter how many times she’s reminded her husband killed her because he was unhappy, she refuses to admit that arranged marriages were potentially harmful. Using Humphrey’s similar upbringing to get through to her is fascinating.

Her final realization that she might not have been murdered if she was free to marry who she wanted is hilarious, but I can’t help fixating on the romantic sparks between her and Humphrey.

That is a romantic connection worth exploring next season with this perfect set-up.

Miscommunication Trope

If there’s one rom-com trope I hate with every inch of my being, it is the miscommunication trope.

It is certainly unexpected to see such a trope in Mike and Alison’s relationship this late in the game. One of the draws of Ghosts is the lack of serious tention surrounding our core couple’s relationship.

Most of their conflict comes from external forces, and when external forces are petty ghosts, there’s not much to complain about.

It is more than a little bizarre to see Mike turn on Alison so quickly after everything they’ve been through, and it doesn’t help the crusade to make him more likable.

This couple is beyond these petty misunderstandings, and the choice to have them question their marriage feels like a step back in the show’s progression.

It feels like Ghosts UK needed conflict and looked to the cheapest conflict cough-out from rom-coms.

That said, Mike and Alison don’t have a ton of time to reflect on their relationship, and it’s nice to see them reestablish they are each other’s person through the good and bad.

It is easy to take their effortless chemistry for granted, so I would love to see this series find more creative and in-character ways to explore disruptions to that pairing in the future.

Amplifying their journey in the swelling feels of the two brides as they run to each other is such a beautiful moment to encapsulate their journey these past two seasons.

Fight It Out

We couldn’t possibly close out our Season 2 coverage without mentioning the backroom brawl the ghosts get into.

I am convinced that if more shows allowed their ensemble to enter into a full-on cage match, regardless of whether it makes sense contextually, all TV would thrive. Society itself would be so much better off. 

Because sometimes, we need to see these characters beat the shit out of each other for no reason. It is emotionally cathartic and ironically elevates Pat’s traumatic reunion with his kid killer enough to earn a pass for being wedged in with the rest of this conflict.

Ending the season with “I think I want another fight” followed by, “Could that be a club?” is perfection.

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Ghosts UK is available to stream on Paramount+.

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