SPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from Thursday’s episode Ghosts.
Woodstone Mansion got quite a surprise in this week’s episode Ghosts.
The penultimate episode did not disappoint, revealing the powers of another ghost. It looks like Pete (Richie Moriarty) isn’t stuck on the property after all. Unlike everyone else, he is not bound to the spirit border of Woodstone and can travel wherever he wants. Of course, his first outing is a trip to the grocery store with Jay (Utkarsh Ambudkar), who immediately loses him because he I actually can’t see any of the ghosts.
Luckily, this wasn’t another Flower (Sheila Carrasco) situation. At the end of the episode, Pete had returned safely. But the new confidence he gained from leaving the property inspired him to take a trip to visit his family. Hopefully he’ll be back in time for Isaac’s (Brandon Scott Jones) wedding!
Although it was shorter, Ghosts Season 3 definitely has it all. Over the course of nine episodes, the series introduced additional ghost powers And said goodbye to a love interest in Alberta and gave audiences much-needed details on some of the ghosts’ backstories, including the death of Hetty (Rebecca Wisocky).
Another touching story featured one of the first ghosts viewers ever learned about – Trevor (Asher Grodman). After his memorial service last season, the mention of his younger brother inspired an entire episode in Season 3, in which Trevor was able to not only see his brother, but also instill the wisdom of his older siblings in him, even from the afterlife.
Grodman spoke to Deadline about Season 3, his hopes for Trevor in the future, and whether or not he’s actually secretly jealous of these other ghost powers.
DEADLINE: We didn’t get a chance to talk after Trevor finally met his brother, so let’s start there. This is something fans have been asking about since Trevor’s memorial service.
ASHER GRODMAN: Kudos to our writers and showrunners Joe Port and Joe Wiseman. They had a line in an episode about Trevor’s parents visiting the house in Season 2. It was like a reference to Trevor’s brother. He’s still crashing in his parents’ basement, and it was just one line. And the audience was like, “Oh, we really need to meet this guy.” It’s just so good to write when you can do something so compelling with so little, so give them credit. As someone who grew up playing Madden and fighting with my brother over football, I definitely related to the plot. And one of the fun things that Trevor gets to do – that Pete gets to do a little bit – but there’s something unique about those who have died recently is that the impact we had on the world of the living is still felt is. So we get these “Tom Sawyer at his own funeral” moments and then play with how Trevor sees the world or how Trevor sees his brother and how that differs from the way the rest of the world sees his brother. It’s just a lot of fun to play in two worlds, if that makes any sense at all. We spent a lot of time figuring out the dynamics of the house and the history of the house. Every now and then we get these one-off episodes to fill out another universe. As an actor, it’s really, really exciting.
DEADLINE: Did you have any ideas or expectations about how the eventual storyline with Trevor’s brother would go?
GRODMAN: I probably pitched a few things. I just threw out some silly ideas. But they are really good, our writers. You don’t need my help. I think they did a great job with the casting. [I like] We’re going deeper into Trevor’s story because we have this fun thing where we can move the story forward by going back in time, and even though this isn’t a flashback like we normally do… with his brother, it’s something like a trip into the past. It was for Trevor. I don’t think I threw a lot of stuff at them. I think they understood this thing really well.
DEADLINE: Is there anything else you’d really like to know about Trevor in the future?
GRODMAN: I’m always fascinated by this transition into the afterlife because Trevor was the first person we saw go through it in “Trevor’s Pants.” I think it’s a lot of fun to get involved in. I would also like to understand – and we’re starting to look into this a little – the reasons behind ghost powers. So what’s so powerful about Trevor’s right finger? That would be a fun thing. Going back to what we talked about before, there are still people in the world that Trevor has had an influence on, whether it’s a good influence or a bad influence, looking at what’s happening in his life is and to what extent he wants to engage or change or not change the impact he has left behind.
DEADLINE: Whenever someone from the past visits a ghost, I think they always trigger some sort of growth.
GRODMAN: It’s a funny dynamic because it’s also fun to watch us grow and then fall back into our dysfunction.
DEADLINE: I’m glad you mentioned Trevor’s powers, because I’ve heard that as more ghost powers are revealed, there’s some jealousy about who gets what powers.
GRODMAN: There was a time when everyone was jealous of me. That’s gone. [Laughs].
DEADLINE: Well, in this new episode we find out that Pete can cross the ghost boundary. He can go anywhere! How did you react to this power?
GRODMAN: I just thought that was so clever… Our show has this massive limitation that we can’t do [leave] this property. We don’t go to far away and exotic places. What I like most about writing is that we lean on the limitation, if that makes any sense at all. It’s like working with one hand behind your back. I think the writers do a really good job of leaning into the limitations, subverting them, and using them as fuel.
DEADLINE: I have to ask if you’re secretly hoping that Trevor can unlock another power.
GRODMAN: It would be amazing if Trevor had any other power. He’s not the youngest in terms of looks or age, but because he’s the youngest spirit, he almost has that little brother thing and has absolutely had the best life of all. So the idea that this guy has a wealth of powers and experience would just be annoying. I do think it would be a lot of fun to play with. So yeah, maybe there’s another power in there. Or something like, “Ah, Trevor got it?” Again? Come on man.’
DEADLINE: First we lost Flower. Then we lost Pete. It’s as if the authors are telling us that no one is safe anymore. I hope that soon no more ghosts will disappear.
GRODMAN: I hope that too. Even though there are eight of us, it definitely feels like it’s a very empty house when one of us isn’t there. I think Sheila Carrasco is not only a great person but also a genius. And when we first did those scenes with her in the fountain, we were all cackling along the way because she was just so funny. The same goes for Richie. We missed their presence in our little clown muppet show we do because everyone has such a specific voice and sensibility.
DEADLINE: There were some really fun guest stars this season. Since we already know the show has been renewed, who are you hoping to make an appearance?
GRODMAN: Wow. I mean, look, there’s this big fish out there of Mark Hamill who’s a fan of the show and he kind of blew us away with it. If it were a Trevor story, I personally would love to see Max Greenfield in it because I just think they have a very similar sensibility.
DEADLINE: I think this is where the Mark Hamill thing has to happen.
GRODMAN: There was a moment when I really thought it was going to happen. And it could have simply been a matter of timing. But it felt like something had been written for him. I have no confirmation of this. It was just something I saw on the page that was there, and then it wasn’t there anymore. So I wouldn’t be surprised if we’ve tried to achieve this in the past.
DEADLINE: The finale is just around the corner. What can you say about the end of season 3?
GRODMAN: I’m just thinking about how dramatic I want to be… I can tell you that if the second season’s cliffhanger is already making your stomach turn, the third season is going to be even worse. We have a fantastic conclusion to season three.
DEADLINE: These cliffhangers really become a staple of the series.
GRODMAN: I know there’s that agonizing twist or whatever that happens at the end of an episode. Something that our show does, it was one of the things I liked about “Trevor’s Pants,” is that they turned something as trivial as a pair of missing pants into this commentary on bullying dynamics and then did it as a crime drama. So we’re doing this thing that’s about ghosts, but it’s also funny and sometimes incredibly sentimental. We switched between genres. We will experiment in this surprising genre game in a fun way at the end of the third season. I think people will enjoy it. Unfortunately or fortunately, you will really wish there was one more episode or that an episode came out sooner.