Rose Abdoo returns in Ghosts Episode 20 as Paula the Producer
Rose Abdoo returned as Paula the Producer in episode 20 of Ghosts, and the script in “Polar Opposites” sent her character straight back into Sam’s orbit. Paula had last been on site in Season 2, when Ghosts filmed the Dumb Deaths episode about Pete’s demise via arrow.
That comeback matters because Sam wanted Paula to see a script she had written, while ghost producer Joan had already weighed in on the ending of the holiday rom-com Polar Opposites. Sam ran the script by Joan before showing it to Paula, then Joan pushed for a different ending.
Joan changes Sam’s ending
Joan did not like the version Sam chose for Polar Opposites, and the show turned that note into the episode’s engine. Sasappis entered Paula’s dreams to test which ending would work best, but the experiment produced the wrong results and sent the story in a less clean direction than Sam expected.
The complication was Paula herself. Instead of simply reacting to the script, she ended up thinking she had come up with the idea for Polar Opposites, then brought it up on the phone to a colleague. That forced everyone around her to gaslight Paula into forgetting she had read the script at all.
Rose Abdoo on coming back
Abdoo said she was pleased to be asked back because “I was so pleased to be asked back because it was the summer of 2022, and I just love that character.” She also said Paula was loosely based on a producer from Chicago who had been the producer of Second City, which gives the role a sharper business-world edge than a standard guest turn.
She described Paula’s attitude with a line that fits the character neatly: “Do you have a problem with that?” Abdoo said she had so much fun working on Ghosts, and that she got the news that she was going to have a callback for Eternally Yours after filming Ghosts.
Montreal, Hollywood, and what follows
Four years later, Abdoo was back after being asked to reprise Paula, and her schedule was already moving between projects. “I was back and forth from LA to Montreal three times at the beginning of the year,” she said, while also preparing to star in Eternally Yours, the forthcoming vampire comedy from Ghosts showrunners Joe Port and Joe Wiseman.
For Ghosts, the immediate takeaway is practical: Paula is not a one-scene callback. Her return directly intersects with Sam’s script, Joan’s rewrite instincts, and the story line that hints at Sam’s path toward Hollywood stardom. If Ghosts keeps using Paula as an external industry test for Sam’s work, the character now functions less like a nostalgia cameo and more like a pressure point for where Sam’s writing career is headed next.
