Psych
Jul 9, 2006 0:38:09 GMT -5
Post by Wad on Jul 9, 2006 0:38:09 GMT -5
Did anybody else watch the premiere Friday night?
I had my hesitations about this show. It bumped "Monk" from its timeslot of four years (which had me worried that it may soon go off the air). I also was worried that it was centered around the stars being tired 1990s Generation X slacker archetypes who struggle with leading normal lives while getting entagled in quriky circumstances. Also, very few USA shows tend to do well. It's done phenomenally well with "Monk" and "The 4400," while "The Dead Zone" has a cultish sci-fi following.
I enjoyed the pilot episode. Shawn Spencer is a slacker character, but he has a photographic memory that he perfected as a kid with the prodding of his martinet policeman father. He solves his first case by watching the local news, but the police believe Shawn's tips make him an accomplice to the crime. As he is about to be booked, Spencer claims he is a psychic. Through his photgraphic observations and cold reading, Spencer weasels his way out of the arrest. The "interim police chief" asks Spencer to help on other cases, but once the fuzz catches on that he's a phony, he'll be arrested. There's the show's hook.
His first case is to solve a kidnapping, which eventually evolves into a murder.
The pilot was entertaining enough, and USA has itself a strong Friday night lineup with "Monk," "Psych" and "House" and "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit" reruns. "Monk" and "Psych" will likely continue the USA tradition of "path of least resistance" programming, where new episodes air for only about eight weeks and go back to reruns until January, when the remaining episodes will air until sometime near Easter.
"Psych" is in the same comedic police vein as "Monk," and I hope the rest of the episodes catch on and are as entertaining as the pilot.
I had my hesitations about this show. It bumped "Monk" from its timeslot of four years (which had me worried that it may soon go off the air). I also was worried that it was centered around the stars being tired 1990s Generation X slacker archetypes who struggle with leading normal lives while getting entagled in quriky circumstances. Also, very few USA shows tend to do well. It's done phenomenally well with "Monk" and "The 4400," while "The Dead Zone" has a cultish sci-fi following.
I enjoyed the pilot episode. Shawn Spencer is a slacker character, but he has a photographic memory that he perfected as a kid with the prodding of his martinet policeman father. He solves his first case by watching the local news, but the police believe Shawn's tips make him an accomplice to the crime. As he is about to be booked, Spencer claims he is a psychic. Through his photgraphic observations and cold reading, Spencer weasels his way out of the arrest. The "interim police chief" asks Spencer to help on other cases, but once the fuzz catches on that he's a phony, he'll be arrested. There's the show's hook.
His first case is to solve a kidnapping, which eventually evolves into a murder.
The pilot was entertaining enough, and USA has itself a strong Friday night lineup with "Monk," "Psych" and "House" and "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit" reruns. "Monk" and "Psych" will likely continue the USA tradition of "path of least resistance" programming, where new episodes air for only about eight weeks and go back to reruns until January, when the remaining episodes will air until sometime near Easter.
"Psych" is in the same comedic police vein as "Monk," and I hope the rest of the episodes catch on and are as entertaining as the pilot.
IPPON!!
