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Psych: Talk Derby to Me
Filed under: OpEd, Psych, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free 
(S03E07) As we sometimes do with our reviews of Psych, let's start at the end rather than the beginning. No, not at the reveal, because that would be utterly daft of me. The end I speak of is the next to last scene of the episode. I don't know about you, but as soon as I saw Shawn wearing skates, waiting for Jules in the empty roller derby rink, my first thought was 'couples skate'. Lo and behold, a couples skate was announced, the spotlight was turned on, and 80s music began to blare from the speakers. Continue...
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Psych: There Might Be Blood
Filed under: OpEd, Psych, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free 
(S03E06) "I'm nobody's pawn, Shawn. I'm a queen." -- Gus Guster Since the third season of Psych began there has been an underlying theme of family. During the season premiere the focus was on Shawn and his parents. Then, a few weeks ago, we got a chance to see the relationship between Shawn and his shifty uncle. With this week's episode we move away from the Spencer family and focus on a member of the Santa Barbara Police Department, Chief Karen Vick, and her older sibling. Siblings are rare in...
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Psych: Disco Didn't Die. It Was Murdered!
Filed under: OpEd, The Office, Psych, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free 
(S03E05) Methuselah Honeysuckle and Old Scratch Johnson -- The names Henry Spencer gave Gus and himself while Shawn was introducing them at the DA's office. Ready for this? We are nearly three-quarters of way through the first half of the third season of Psych. After this week's episode there are only two more left until the season takes a break. Other than the annual holiday special that will air in December the next time we will see Shawn and Gus after the first week of September will...
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It's true! Henry Spencer really doesn't have as many Facebook friends as Shawn
Filed under: Web, Psych, Reality-Free  There was a time during the early days of television where what happened on a scripted show remained within the confines of the small screen. Then came the wonderful world of the Internet and the amazing potential that it had. Soon enough, reality and imagination began to merge. Now, it's a near given that a TV show will utilize the Internet to maximize its viewing potential.
Take Psych for example. In a conversation that took place during last week's episode Shawn made reference to the fact that his father Henry was angry because he didn't have as...
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Psych: The Greatest Adventure in the History of Basic Cable
Filed under: OpEd, Psych, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free 
(S03E04) "You keep a stun gun in the birdhouse? What do you keep in the garden gnome? An M-80?" -- Shawn to his dad, Henry, on his choice of weapon storage. Ah, now the pieces of the puzzle that are Shawn Spencer are coming together! We've known for years that the younger Spencer has gotten his analytical skills from his father Henry. And, in the first episode of this season, we found out that he gained his recall abilities from his mother. Now we know where he got his sense of adventure and his ability...
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More signs of the product placement apocalypse
Filed under: Industry, OpEd, Psych, Eureka, Reality-Free 
Ah, product placement. It's a subject that's come up before. We have an award for it, and even as far back as those care free days of 2005, Karina was writing about the Screen Actors Guild and Writers Guild Of America protesting it. The telling quote from that piece, "Our writers are being told to perform the function of ad copywriter, but to disguise this as storytelling." And isn't that where most of us have always drawn the line in the sand? The placing of products into sets...
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Psych: Daredevils!
Filed under: OpEd, Psych, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free 
(S03E03) "Deboned. Killed and re-killed. How does that work?" -- Gus, while filling out stunt forms. Hi all. Before I begin I want to give a tip of the hat to Allison who covered last week's review of Psych while I was waiting in line over at Comic-Con. There were some moments, as I was contemplating gnawing on a a $7 hot dog, that I wished I was home watching this show. I want to start this week's review not at the beginning, but at the reveal. Don't worry, I'm not going to let you know...
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Psych: Murder? ...Anyone? ...Anyone? ...Bueller?
Filed under: Psych, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free  (S03E02) From the title, it was clear tonight's show was going to relate to Ferris Bueller's Day Off. In fact, in true Shawn and Gus fashion, the entire John Hughes' oeuvre was mined for comic gold, as Gus was hosting the 13th high school reunion -- that's right. Not 10, but 13 years. Ironically, in 1995 there was no John Hughes movie. Never mind, the references were more '80s than '90s anyway, including Milo and Otis, Karla DeVito, and all those Hughes movies.
Overall, there was something lacking tonight. The setting came first, Gus and Shawn's class...
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Psych: The Ghost In You (season premiere)
Filed under: OpEd, Psych, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free 
(S03E01) Ahhh! The Boys of Summer are back! No, not The Beach Boys, or the song by Don Henley, or the lineup for the 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers. I'm talking about Shawn Spencer and Burton "Gus" Guster. For the last two summers this fake psychic and his over-excited friend have joined us on the crime comedy Psych. Now, they are back to tackle a third season that, according to stars James Roday and Dule Hill, should be a good one. We have already provided an early look for the season premiere, so this review is...
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Psych season three -- an early look
Filed under: OpEd, Psych, Early Looks, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free 
Let me put one thing to rest before I begin this review in full. For those of you who think Psych is going to get all dramatic and ruin the show with the introduction of Shawn's mom during the season three premiere (Friday, July 18th, at 10:00 p.m.) I want you take a deep breath and relax. There are definitely some serious moments between Shawn Spencer and the rest of his family, particularly towards the end of the episode. For the most part, though, it is the same Psych that fans...
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