Psych: Psy vs. Psy
By fred | July 29, 2007
(S02E03) Well, the good signs from the past weeks are confirmed, Psych is now a good and very enjoyable show, much better than it used to be when it started. And despite not being as great an episode as last weeks, this was yet another great one.
One again during this episode Shawn and Gus didn’t have it all easy, they had to work hard to prove themselves. Last time they weren’t in any “danger”, but Lassiter and Juliet were always right behind them, if not ahead! They had to work hard to show they were still master of the games.
This time, their abilities were directly questioned!
FBI agents were coming in to work on the case, and they had their very own psych, Lindsay Leikin. And she is good, very good, the best even, dixit Special Agent Lars Ewing, guest Lou Diamond Phillips, who wasn’t used as “just a guest” like they had done on the season premiere but had a real good, funny character.
Was his strict, serious side pretty funny, or was it his flirting with Juliet that was hilarious? It was both, and Juliet drooling at the thought of him in the shower was a nice one too, especially when in the end she wasn’t daydreaming, he was actually walking shirtless!
Once again the show was filled with pop references & many jokes and great lines, and I won’t even try to list them, but as silly as it was I have to say, that new hi-tech device that was used in combo with “a Mildred”, was great.
What’s a Mildred? Is it an anagram? Don’t you mean an acronym? Don’t answer that!
Really, I liked it that we kept seeing agent Ewing’s stenographer, Mildred, taking notes everywhere he went, including during the final scene at the airport. The military time joke (when’s 0700?) I thought was a bit too stupid to be funny at first, but eventually it made me laugh.
Back on the case. Once again our duo had a hard time to be right on their case, because they were pretty much late all the time, Lindsay and the others always had them beat. Yet they were always right behind, so it wasn’t a complete failure.
Despite that, soon they were already not welcome anymore in the meetings about the case. Their help wasn’t really needed, nor welcomed. It was obviously done for the comedy they got from it, but it felt a bit out of place still. Not just because they’ve been working together with the police department and been helpful for some time now, but also because the chief had said only minutes before, that while fully cooperating with FBI she didn’t want them to do things on their own, she wanted to stay in the game, she wanted FBI agents to need them.
Ok, maybe not talking to Shawn and Gus, still, they’ve been working along and helped many times. They got thrown away like that, and are welcomed back just as fast. One second chief Karen Vick swears by the FBI and don’t want Shawn and Gus in on the meetings anymore, despite their past, and the next she’s asking them and don’t care about those FBI special agents. Talk about making sense…
