Okay, you would find this out pretty early into this recap, but I don’t believe in psychics. No judgement whatsoever on those who do, but it’s just not for me. That said, let’s see if I can be swayed by living doll, Tyler Henry.
I’m a real boy.
Right off the bat, Tyler lets us now that NOT ONLY is he a medium, he’s also a clairvoyant and a medical intuitive, which sounds dangerous to me, but whatevs. He ALSO lets us know that he’s unique in not wanting to know who he’s going to read ahead of time, so sometimes he doesn’t recognize “celebrities” when he shows up at their houses.
Uh oh
OH SHIT I saw a clip of Carole Radziwell in the intro montage, I hope that she’s on this upcoming season and not the previous one, I don’t know if I have the fortitude to backtrack on this shit.
Tyler explains to his driver/manager Charlie that he doesn’t always know who the celebrities are because he doesn’t watch much television, and also just recently moved to Hollywood.
“Wait, so that lady used to be married to Chris Martin from Coldplay? Whoa!”
Anyway, Charlie drives Tyler around so he won’t know whose house he’s going to, and also because he doesn’t have his driver’s license. Fine. On the way to his reading, Tyler had some spirit energy coming through. He’s picking up some lace – which for me makes me think of Lace on The Bachelor (and Bachelor in Paradise, keepin it crazy), but it turns out that signifies a wedding. Upon arriving at his first client’s house, it’s someone Tyler DOES recognize, Melissa Joan Hart.
I’m on TV still.
Melissa is skeptical, like moi, but I have a feeling by the end of this show she’ll be converted – ooooh also she is iffy about mediums because of The Bible. Luckily Tyler lets her know that his clairvoyance is a gift from God, and the kind of mediums the bible talk about subscribed to different religions so we’re all cool now.
Melissa is excited, her mother and sister hiding in the kitchen are excited, so here comes the reading!
Let’s get ready to rumble
The first object Tyler is going to get medium-y on is a music box. He holds it in one hand and starts writing and talking to spirits and tossing out letters. The letter “s” signifies Melissa’s grandpa Stanley who made some kind of furniture – smaller than a table, bigger than a breadbox. Her mom almost has a seizure in the kitchen willing Melissa – or Tyler – to spit out the words hope chest.
I’d like to solve the puzzle!
Now Tyler makes Melissa cry by channeling her grandmother, and bringing back up the lace imagery that was coming through on his car ride earlier – it turns out that means that her grandmother attended her wedding as a ghost. It also turns out the music box he’s holding belonged to that VERY SAME GRANDMA, and the music from it was played at Melissa’s wedding. Whoa, I guess.
Other information Tyler channels is that there was a divorce after the grandmother died, which blows everyone’s mind.
But only 50% of marriages end in divorce – how did he know?
Couldn’t leave a reading without some emotional manipulation (I am LEGIT sorry people who are into psychics. I would love to be proven wrong, seriously.), so Tyler now goes into the grandmother’s actual passing. He says “something about her head?”, and Melissa says “yes, she had a stroke and then went into a coma”.
Okay, the next part is actually touching, regardless of my opinions. Tyler tells Melissa that her grandmother didn’t want to be kept on life support while in a coma, which gives her mother a lot of closure since she was the one who had to make the decision to end it.
No jokes. Closure is good, however you come to it.
Now Melissa’s grandfather comes through to Tyler, and for a second I thought he took the lord’s name in vain, but he just said geez.
Close call
Anyway, he says that most husbands die before their wives, but this was the other way around – which he was either told by spirits or by the fact that Melissa said her grandmother’s death was untimely. The grandmother references a red rose, which means that the grandfather remarried a woman named Rose.
Moving on to the fertility front for some reason, now the grandparents are hanging out with an unborn child, which belonged to Melissa’s sister, it turns out. More closure.
This show is a real bummer.
Melissa’s mother and sister emerge from the kitchen, everyone hugs, and Melissa feels drained but secure in the knowledge that everyone is super chill in the afterlife.
Psychics man, like whoa!
Anyway, now Melissa believes in psychics, everyone got some closure, and Tyler got to meet his childhood crush, Sabrina the Teenage Witch.
Yay!
Alright, moving right along. I’m really hoping that at the next stop he’ll do some medical intuitive stuff, I don’t know how many more dead grandparents I can handle. In the commercial break there was a breakdancing bee in a honey nut cheerios commercial, so I guess anything is possible.