THE SHORT VERSION
- CBS aired a two-part Ghosts Halloween special on Thursday in which Hetty's estranged sister Margaret, played by Maria Thayer, arrives trapped inside a mirror.CBS 周四播出《Ghosts》万圣节两集特辑，Hetty 疏远多年的姐姐 Margaret（Maria Thayer 饰）随着一面镜子出现，并被封在镜中。
- Deadline reports the sisters reconcile and Hetty sends the mirror to Paris with Trevor's daughter Abby; Collider reports Margaret first tricks Hetty into taking her place in the glass.Deadline 报道姐妹最终和解，Hetty 把镜子送去与 Trevor 的女儿 Abby 同住、让姐姐看到巴黎；Collider 则报道 Margaret 先设局让 Hetty 替她进入镜中。
- Pete reappears on the anniversary of his death with no memory, and the two reports disagree on whether the two-parter is the Season 6 premiere or comes before a spring launch.Pete 在自己忌日当天现身却毫无记忆；两篇报道对该两集特辑是否算第六季首播说法不一致，Deadline 称第六季要到春季才开播。
A Halloween special built around a broken mirror一集围绕破碎镜子展开的万圣节特辑
CBS aired its two-part Ghosts Halloween special on Thursday, and in both accounts the mirror drives the story. Deadline reports that Jay, played by Utkarsh Ambudkar, replaced a broken mirror inside the mansion with a similar old-looking one from a flea market, hoping his wife Sam would not notice. Collider gives the accident a cause: Kyle, played by Ben Feldman, broke the original during a basketball game indoors, and Jay hunted for a replacement with Mark's help.CBS 周四播出《Ghosts》万圣节两集特辑，在两篇报道里，那面镜子都是故事的发动机。Deadline报道，Utkarsh Ambudkar 饰演的 Jay 把宅邸里一面破镜子换成从跳蚤市场找来的、看起来同样古旧的镜子，希望妻子 Sam 不会发现。Collider则给出了事故原因：Ben Feldman 饰演的 Kyle 在屋里打篮球时不小心打碎了原来的镜子，Jay 在 Mark 的帮忙下另找了一面相似的。
The reports place Sam differently. Deadline says Rose McIver's Sam is away on a book tour, and that Kyle, who also sees the ghosts, can alert Jay to the problem. Collider says Sam is in Australia adapting her screenplay, Polar Opposites, and that Kyle has stepped in to help Jay with the ghostly residents. Collider titles the two-parter Halloween 6: The Mirror; Deadline gives no episode title.两篇报道对 Sam 身在何处说法不同。Deadline 说 Rose McIver 饰演的 Sam 在外跑新书巡展，而同样能看见鬼魂的 Kyle 因此能提醒 Jay 出了问题。Collider 说 Sam 在澳大利亚改编自己的剧本《Polar Opposites》，Kyle 留下来帮 Jay 照看这些鬼魂住户。Collider 给这两集取名《Halloween 6: The Mirror》；Deadline 没有给出分集名。
Margaret arrives with a mustache and a rule about mirrorsMargaret 带着小胡子出场，也带来一条关于镜子的规则
Margaret is played by Maria Thayer, and Deadline calls her Hetty's mustachioed, estranged sister, introduced here after a single passing mention in Season 1. Wisocky says she had wanted the part written since then: “I've been begging to meet my mustachioed sister Margaret.” The mustache is gone when Margaret appears. Deadline explains that her spirit has been trapped in the mirror since her death and exists as a reflection of herself, because a spirit that glimpses itself in a mirror as it leaves its body is trapped there.Margaret 由 Maria Thayer 饰演。Deadline 称她是 Hetty 那位留着小胡子、多年不相往来的姐姐，此前只在第一季被顺口提过一次，这次才真正出场。Wisocky 说，她从那次提到起就一直在要求把这个角色写出来：“I've been begging to meet my mustachioed sister Margaret.” Margaret 现身时胡子已经不见了。Deadline 解释，她的灵魂自去世起就被封在这面镜子里，只能以自身倒影的形态存在——因为灵魂离开肉体时若在镜中瞥见自己，就会被困在镜中。
The mirror ties the sisters to the house. Deadline reports that it belonged to the Woodstone family and stood in Margaret's room while she died of disease, and that Hetty distracted herself from the loss with lines of cocaine on that same furniture. Collider says Margaret has been inside the glass since she caught sight of her own reflection shortly after her death, nearly a century ago. “She was escaping. She was escaping pain, escaping the truth,” Wisocky says of Hetty.这面镜子也把姐妹俩与这栋宅子绑在一起。Deadline 报道，镜子原属 Woodstone 家族，Margaret 病重去世时就放在她的房间里；Hetty 为了不去面对失去妹妹的恐惧，就在那件家具上一行行地吸可卡因。Collider 说 Margaret 在死后不久第一次看见自己的倒影，从此被关在镜中，至今已近一个世纪。“She was escaping. She was escaping pain, escaping the truth,”Wisocky 这样形容当时的 Hetty。
The version of her own life Hetty had been tellingHetty 一直对自己讲的那个版本
Deadline sets out the story Hetty had been telling herself. She blamed Margaret, in life and afterwards, for stealing her one true love, a painter named Julian, and clung to the idea that the tragic turn in her life was being refused that marriage, with her sister as the villain. What she discovers is that Margaret had expressed interest in Julian first, and that Hetty could not be bothered to listen.Deadline 梳理了 Hetty 一直对自己讲述的往事。她生前与死后都把失去此生真爱归咎于 Margaret，认为姐姐抢走了那位名叫 Julian 的画家；她紧抓着一个念头：自己人生的悲剧转折，就是没能嫁给 Julian，而姐姐是阻止这一切的恶人。Hetty 后来发现的是，最先对 Julian 表示兴趣的其实是 Margaret，而她自己当时根本懒得去听。
Wisocky treats that discovery as a way into the character. “When she realizes that this fundamental pivot point in her life, she was not seeing clearly, I think that opens her up to being, I think, a little more malleable to her interpretation of love,” she says. She also praises the period detail that both sisters grew up in a world where marriage was the only hope of happiness, forcing them into competition rather than alliance. Collider reaches a similar reading: the mirror shows Hetty that Margaret never meant to betray her, and that much of the estrangement was her own failure to listen.Wisocky 把这个发现说成进入角色的入口。“When she realizes that this fundamental pivot point in her life, she was not seeing clearly, I think that opens her up to being, I think, a little more malleable to her interpretation of love,”她说。她还称赞剧集的时代细节：那个年代，两姐妹仅有的幸福指望就是嫁得好，这使她们被迫彼此竞争而非结盟。Collider 从成片里读出了相近的意思：镜子让 Hetty 看到，姐姐从无背叛之意，两人疏远很大程度上源于她自己不肯听。
A trick, a shattering and a reconciliation一次设计、一次碎裂与一场和解
Collider's account of the reunion is harsher. It says the meeting is anything but pleasant and that Margaret tricks Hetty into taking her place in the mirror. Later, Jay and Mark accidentally shatter the mirror holding Hetty, which the review treats as a rude reminder of what losing a character would feel like. It compares the device to earlier Isaac and Flower episodes, notes that Flower's disappearance ran seven episodes in Season 3, and credits the writers with resolving Hetty's situation by the end of the second episode.Collider 对这场重逢的叙述更冷酷。它说这次见面绝不愉快，Margaret 还设局让 Hetty 替自己进入镜中。后来 Jay 和 Mark 又意外打碎了关着 Hetty 的那面镜子，评论认为这让观众骤然意识到失去一个角色会是什么感受。它把这个手法与早前 Isaac、Flower 的集数相比，指出 Flower 失踪那条线在第三季拖了七集，并称赞编剧让 Hetty 的处境在第二集结束前就得到解决。
Deadline describes the outcome without the trick: the sisters make amends, and Hetty helps Margaret see Paris at last by sending the mirror to live with Trevor's daughter Abby. Collider adds that Abby is played by Gideon Adlon, that Thayer is known for 30 Rock and Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and that the reconciliation is abruptly undercut by Flower's entrance, a stop sign against sappiness that still lets the reunion feel earned. Both reports find the sisters' history believable a century on.Deadline 给出的是没有设局环节的结局：姐妹俩和好，Hetty 把镜子送去与 Trevor 的女儿 Abby 同住，帮妹妹终于看到了巴黎。Collider 补上 Abby 由 Gideon Adlon 饰演、Thayer 此前因《30 Rock》和《Forgetting Sarah Marshall》为人所知，并说这场和解被 Flower 的突然闯入生生打断——那像一块“停止”路牌，防止剧集过分煽情，却仍让重逢显得水到渠成。两篇报道都认为，姐妹的往事隔了一个世纪依然可信。
Pete returns, and the season has a new mysteryPete 归来，本季多了一个新谜
Pete's absence hangs over both episodes. Collider says they pick up months after his disappearance on a trip to London with Jay and Kyle, hunting a portrait of the cholera ghost Nancy, played by Betsy Sodoro. Alberta, played by Danielle Pinnock, revives him with a séance even after Sass reports that Pete requested a DNS, or do not séance, policy. Deadline describes the ending: Pete reappears on Woodstone property on the anniversary of his death and remembers nothing, as if he had just died.Pete 的缺席笼罩着这两集。Collider 说故事接在他神秘失踪几个月之后：此前他与 Jay、Kyle 去伦敦寻找霍乱鬼魂 Nancy（Betsy Sodoro 饰）的画像。Danielle Pinnock 饰演的 Alberta 用降神会把他召回，尽管 Sass 说 Pete 明确要求过 DNS，即“不要降神会”。Deadline 描述了结尾：Pete 在他忌日当天重新出现在 Woodstone 的地界上，却什么都不记得，就像刚刚死去一样。
Wisocky tells Deadline the premise frightened the writers. “It was terrifying for us to start the episode in a post-Pete world,” she says, because when Flower disappeared the cast could assume she had been sucked up, while a ghost who simply vanishes has no precedent. She promises the 100th episode, more of Elias and Nancy, and what she calls a particularly beautiful and moving storyline for Sheila Carrasco's Flower.Wisocky 对 Deadline 说，这个设定让编剧们自己都害怕。“It was terrifying for us to start the episode in a post-Pete world,”她说，因为 Flower 消失时大家还能假设她被吸走了，而一个鬼魂凭空消失，此前从未有过先例。她预告了第100集、更多 Elias 与 Nancy，以及她所说的、属于 Sheila Carrasco 饰演的 Flower 的一条特别优美动人的故事线。
When the next episode arrives, and what the reports leave open下一集何时播出，以及两篇报道没有交代的部分
Both reports put the next episode on Dec. 10 at 9 p.m. Deadline says the two-part Christmas special airs on CBS at 9 p.m. ET/PT; Collider says the one-hour holiday episode returns at 9 p.m. EST on CBS and streams the next day on Paramount+. Deadline adds that the show goes on hiatus until then. On the season the reports part company: Deadline writes that Season 6 premieres in the spring, while Collider reviews the two-parter as the Season 6 premiere. Neither explains the difference.两篇报道都把下一集定在12月10日晚9点。Deadline 说两集圣诞特辑将于美国东部与太平洋时间晚9点在 CBS 播出；Collider 说这一小时假日集将于美国东部时间晚9点回归 CBS，次日在 Paramount+ 上线。Deadline 还说明这部剧会再次停播，直到该集播出。至于“第几季”，两篇报道出现分歧：Deadline 写的是第六季要到春季才开播，Collider 却把这两集当作第六季首播来评论。两篇都没有解释这一差异。
Collider is the only one of the two that judges the result. It calls Ghosts a comfort show that is no longer quite the laugh-out-loud comedy it was, argues the jokes and cast still work, and singles out Wisocky and Brandon Scott Jones. Neither report gives ratings, an episode count, a start date or confirmation of a spring launch beyond Deadline's sentence. Related coverage here includes The Diplomat's fifth-season renewal, the Netflix date for Ethos Season 2 and the two seasons of Trauma Code.两篇之中只有 Collider 给出了评价。它称《Ghosts》是一部“舒适剧”，已不再是当年那种每分钟都有笑点的喜剧，但认为笑料与演员仍然成立，并特别点出 Wisocky 与 Brandon Scott Jones。两篇报道都没有提供收视数据、本季集数、开拍日期，也没有在 Deadline 那句话之外确认春季开播。本站相关阅读包括《The Diplomat》获续订第五季、《Ethos》第二季的 Netflix 上线日期与《Trauma Code》的两季安排。
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