1 Waiting for Breaking Bad to start. Unfortunately, the last season just ended.

2 And...what is Psych?

3 So does this mean we will get a Sons of Anarchy thread in the future?

4 Hopeless. It's jumped the shark.

5 nah I don't watch those. I really don't like tv dramas. I kind of don't like drama, period, but especially tv drama, because the things just don't have an ending.

6 And...what is Psych? Damned if I know .

7 >> It's jumped the shark. I was going to say that but it's not that bad. Besides they always have a fair number of clunkers. Last half season they just had mostly that. The half-season before, though, was really pretty good.

8 Obama is a stammering fuckwit, a hollow wisp of a man who could, at best, end up as bait on Deadliest Catch. Thank you, Alex. I'd like to continue with "He's the 'o' in 'zero'" for $400.

9 Well my opinion on this show matters little, I like that Showtime show Spartacus, which according to some on here disqualifies my opinion.

10 Ace, serious question: when you say a show is self-indulgent, what does that mean exactly? I've seen it in reviews of various types and am always befuddled. Thanks!!

11 Posted by: ace at July 14, 2010 09:30 PM (SsvUp)

Yeah but they do nothing but repeat the shtick now. They don't give it enough story to appear fresh anymore.

12 What Is It?

The actors also play to the camera alot. Very funny when it's done well and they do it very well if too much now.

13 Well, I mean that a lot of psych is obviously just stuff that makes these guys laugh, like they drop a lot of eighties references in an effort to top each other in a game. It seems less driven by intent to produce a professional product and more like they wake up drunk, quickly write a show, and shoot it, largely to amuse themselves rather than an audience. That said, their basic instincts are good so in self-indulgently entertaining themselves they usually wind up entertaining the audience. Last half-season they got a little too silly and unprofessional. The show always has had a loosey-goosey "we're making this shit up as we go" vibe, but they kind of got on the wrong side of slapdash last half-season, with most of the episodes being clunkers.

14 Psych is kind of like Scrubs

15 got it. thanks for helping to keep me sane as well.

16

Lol!

I went out for a smoke after the rain storm and there's a double rainbow out there!

Far out, man!

17 This post is racist for not mentioning his black partner.

18 This post is racist for not mentioning his black partner.

Posted by: kelset at July 14, 2010 09:51 PM (9XsjQ)

Not that it is racism but the weakest episodes are the ones where he sort of sits back and let's the other guy go. When they are at each other it's best.

19 Actually, the show kind of forgets the partner. I have seen 100 episodes where the white guy is introduced to someone as "Sean Spencer," but the black guy is never introduced whatsoever. They just seem to forget it's two people. A good schtick is when Sean does introduce the black guy, because he always introduces him by some ludicrous made-up name like "This is my partner, Lavender Goombs."

20 Very good show. On a semi-related note, I learned that there's such a thing as a Monk "novel" last week. I've read 4 of them since. They're like episodes that last half a day instead of just an hour. Go to your library.

21 Fun show. Other fun shows.

Burn Notice -- first season was great. Next two were still good, but declining. This season ... meh.  Bruce Campbell is always funny, but underused. The writers  have been unable to payoff on the big behind the scenes spy intrigue stories. They built the mystery for the first two seasons, but then just kinda gave up. And this season they introduced a new main character which is weak.

Warehouse 13 - first season was fun. Potentially already becoming self-parodic. Lead chick is hot in the pale, curly-haired northeast brunette way, but her giant top lip is distracting and I constantly wonder if it's real. The spunky tomboy hacker chick is also hot. The third chick (a Lisa Bonet hippie black chick) started hot, but I think she got pregnant or something and now her face has changed and she is no longer attractive. Too bad, because I dig hot hippie black chicks. The dude is decent, although his hair looks like a rug.

Fringe. Olivia, Olivia, Olivia. Oh, Olivia. And the old guy is amazing. And the skinny black dude who looks kinda like a giant insect is good, too.

22 I saw an episode of Psych once that starred the Indian dude from Heroes. It confirmed that the Indian dude from Heroes is a terrible, terrible actor. The scene where he attempted to convey sadness was like watching my dog play charades.

And speaking of horrible Indian actors -- the Last Airbender was cosmically horrible and the single worst thing in the whole thing was the bad guy, played by the smart-ass Indian dude from the Daily Show.They don't show him in the trailers because he is so laughably bad.  His sarcastic, fake-pompous Daily Show voice is apparently his real voice because he used the exact same voice to: menace threateningly, boast arrogantly, whisper conspiratorially, vow angrily, and whimper fearfully. This guy must sound like the biggest dick in real life with that voice stuck on permanent sarcasm.

(The Airbender cartoon, on the other hand, was one of the best American animated series of all time. Really amazing.)

23 Yeah, the Airbender cartoon is really, REALLY good. I want them to make the next two movies just so I can see some of the badass stuff Katara does at the end of season 2 and through season 3.

24 I'll watch it, but first you must.....

25 From the first episode, it was Too Cute by Half.

26

I loved the first two seasons.  Now if I remember it's on, I try to watch it.  But it makes no nevermind to me if I miss it.  At all.

The schtick, she is wearing off.  The actors are still pretty fun and charming.  But I'm just losing interest.  And the show is getting a teeny bit too serious for something based on a "He's a fake psychic and no one realizes it in spite of the fact that he's a huge goober" storyline

27 Bones jumped the shark even harder when they decided one of the main characters had been a serial killer for several months at least.
They however have recovered for the most part and the last season or two have been reasonably strong.

28 huh - Have to agree about this seasons Burn Notice. Insanely weak scripts and the macguffins are both stupid, impossible and ludicrous.  Using a shaped charge made out of fifteen 9mm rounds to blow a safe out of a cement floor slab?

29 The father is probably the best character on the show. (Actors name escapes me at the moment.) Loved the scene where he referred to the trash the eighties produced and referenced "LA Law" specifically.

30 I haven't seen Psych, but Dule Hill was pretty good on TWW.

31

"... due to a deep-seated character flaw is compelled to lie, and so claims he's getting psychic emanations from the Astral Plane or telepathic signals from the victim's cat."

No, no, no, no, no!!  With respect, Ace, you have completely missed the premise of the series (and apparently the pilot)!

Our hero starts off as a young man who drifts aimlessly from job to job, but who has the habit of instrinctively solving cases (via an overdeveloped eye for detail). He sees the evidence (for example, in TV reports) and calls in anonymous tips - leading the cops to the culprit.

The psychic scam starts when the cops get the idea that he must be involved with the criminals in a case, due to his apparent inside knowledge of the case.  He tries to tell them how he has deduced what he has, but they don't believe him (because nobody could be that good), so he uses his powers of observation to prove to them he's psychic as a matter of self-defense.

So it's all about the incompetent bureaucratic govt people not being able to recognize a truly extrordinary individual when they see one, so he literally has to con them to get them to accept his extremely valuable help.  They'll believe the ridiculous psychobabble, but they won't believe the truth, because it is beyond their comprehension.

There are the required liberal sub-plots (his always being broke, the minority best-friend sidekick, etc), but it's mostly about a heroic individual overcoming insurmountable obstacles, the worst ones being thrown up by Big Govt authority. It's a statement about the achievement of the individual vs. authoritarianism. The psychic schtick serves as a plot device for an endless variety of humor. It's one of the more clever shows on TV.

32 Ive only seen a few episodes but I never really liked it. I always keep wondering why the sidekick doesnt just smack him upside the head and tell him to go &%$# himself.

33 I just watched the Pilot the past couple of nights. Optimizer is right. However, I do think he gets some pleasure in lying. And I like the sidekick. He has a very unique and self-effacing way of squealing and running away when his pal goes too far.

34 Yeah, Burn Notice is gone. Too much of Fiona nagging and hitting Mike, the Mother nagging, and poor Bruce having to phone it home with the same old dialogue. I hate the big mysteries though. I don't like plot lines where there is really no explanation for it. And Florida was great but maybe it's time for him to travel the world trying to get his job back.

35 Bones? Eh. I like the female lead character and the schtick where she takes everything literally, she is a cultural idiot -"I don't know what you mean by that" and I especially like that she always wants the gun and wants to shoot people and does, whether it is entirely legal or not.

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37

@44: "I do think he gets some pleasure in lying"

Yeah, OK, but I'd spin  it a little differently. I'd say he really does seem to enjoy the theatrical nature of this scam he had been forced into, which I'd say isn't so bad inasmuch as it's a necessary evil to achieve great things. Beyond that, I would point out that he also routinely tells lies to his friends and cohorts.  Sometimes this also is in the pursuit of "getting the job done", but at other times it's just to get away with silly stuff. This latter reason is probably to make the character more relatable, in that he's not "Mr. Perfect", but it also seems to be used as an avenue for injecting more comedy.  He's never simply pathological or pernicious about it, although he can cook up his wild stories so quickly that it's scary.

In the pilot, they even had him as a womanizing scoundrel, but seem to have pulled back on that pretty quickly. Lassiter was also originally portrayed as having a corrupt affair with his then-partner, but they've done a total 180 on that. They've gone more light-hearted since the pilot, which I think is probably for the better.

@41: "I always keep wondering why the sidekick doesnt just smack him upside the head and tell him to go &%$# himself."

This is a classic comedy duo, with the sidekick as the straight man. Within the plot, the sidekick is like a brother to him - the lifelong best friend of an only child. Gus always gives it right back to him, though - explaining how patently crazy, impractical, and downright immature some of his person habits and decisions are, in no uncertain terms. Occaisionally he actually does walk away, but skips the violence and profanity you suggest (for reasons that should be obvious). Naturally, we always get back to the status quo in the end - as one would expect in any TV comedy. 

38 Psych is a bromantic comedy.

Sometimes it's painfully lame, but often it's hilarious.  I'm looking to watching this on hulu after work.  (Looks like it's already up.)

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