meganbmoore | Psych: Season 2 (complete) (Reply)

So, I kind of have this strange love-hate thing going with Psych. On the one hand, I love the gimmick of the genius detective who's a slacker who can't keep a job because he can't get motivated, but then realizes he loves solving crimes and gets really motivated with that, and drags his high strung best friend along. I don't love the "fake psychic" bit they added to it. Shawn as Shawn provides enough hijinks and off-beat behavior to keep the show running. Shawn with his fake psychic act going tends to move him from "annoying but endearing" to "someone just hit him already" territory for me most of the time, and I tend to really hate his "visions" and just want them to be over with.

That said, S2 seemed to have that aspect under control better than S1 did, but it also seemed more slapstick at times than S1. I kind of want to forget that the counterfeit episode ever happened.

Juliet and Lassiter also got some of their own storylines here. I'm glad they aren't pushing "Lassiter is a jerk" as hard as they did in S1, as how they did it then just made me more inclined to like him and be irritated with Shawn. (I do like Shawn, just not as much as I do other characters.) They didn't portray Juliet as being as willing to buy into Shawn's act as they did in S1. As much as Juliet/Shawn is pretty much an odd, mass collision of cute and snark, I kind of hope the show never actually hooks them up. Even though she "knows" he's lying to her about being a psychic, she still gives him trust and the benefit of the doubt, and at some point, it will have to be stated "yes, I've been lying to you from the moment we met," and she isn't the sort of person who will take that well, especially given how much she defends him. It should stay with Shawn having a massive crush but being allergic to adult relationships, and Juliet having an "adults only" policy. I'm continually impressed, though, that they can constantly make her so cute and perky and honest and trusting (and, sometimes, a complete, stereotypical blonde) but also clearly smarter and more competent than almost anyone else on the show at any point in time. Not to mention she's the resident badass. Now for Vick to get some more independent development in S3.

SPOILERS!

1. So, did anyone else get the impression that Gus's wife was pretty much a female Shawn, only rich and over indulged? That amused me, as I've always read the show as "if Shawn and Gus weren't both heterosexual males, they would be married." Actually, they would be either divorced, or Gus would be in jail for murder or attempted murder, as the only thing that saves Shawn's life as it is is the fact that Gus can go home to a Shawn-less place. And you know he thinks about killing Shawn at least once a week anyway. Gus is to be commended for his restraint, really.

2. Did anyone else go "uhm...awkward...moving on" during the not-quite-kiss?

3. I was amused that, as soon as I mentioned to someone that we only ever saw Shawn's father, but never Gus's parents, they showed up. No wonder Gus is so excitable.

4. Is Lassiter starting to like Juliet, too? (The whole bit where he tore into the kid for secist comments to her, and ended with "And above all else, Detective O'Hara is not hot!" and when she showeed up at work in the stylish new dress and said she was a woman and was proud of it and he was all "No! You can't be a woman! You aren't!") I don't particularly disapprove, but don't want any sort of a rivalry or triangle.

5. I guess all the talk about Shawn's mother throughout the season made it pretty obvious she'd show up (kinda) in the last episode.