Review: President Curtis “Ghosts”
Overview
When Banks contracts malware, O’Doyle enters her computer brain to find a fix.
Our Take
On one side of the Oval Office, President Curtis is dealing with a rather peculiar spiritual dilemma. The ghost of Abraham Lincoln has been haunting a White House bedroom, chained to the physical realm due to “unfinished business.”
While O’Doyle and Banks are wrapped up in technical chaos, Curtis takes it upon himself to act as a supernatural counselor. The episode leans heavily into dark historical satire when Lincoln reveals his lingering earthly regret isn’t about saving the Union or enacting policy—it’s tied to holding Mary Todd’s original blood-stained dress one last time. The resulting interaction between the 16th President and President Curtis offers some of the episode’s sharpest dialogue, poking fun at presidential legacies while letting Keith David’s commanding voice work carry the comedy effortlessly.
By stripping back Banks’ hyper-competent persona and exposing her flawed past, “Ghosts” delivers necessary character development while keeping the joke-per-minute ratio impressively high.
Between Abraham Lincoln’s bizarre ghost antics and the chaotic digital journey through a cyborg’s suppressed wild years, “Ghosts” stands out as one of the strongest, most inventive entries in President Curtis‘ inaugural season.
