![]() ![]() ![]() (The giveaway? Shawn realizes the shadows are in the wrong spots for the time of day.) But don’t take our word for it. He attempts to fix the scene by scrutinizing and retaking the photos to ensure there are zero traces of him. “Game, Set … Muuurder?” (Season 1, Episode 13)Īnother episode plagued by an absurdly convoluted solution: A tennis star is attacked in her apartment, and the perpetrator is revealed to be the department’s crime-scene photographer, who acted in a jealous, unrequited-love rage. A waste of Ghostbusters homages, too.ġ19. The premise - a murderous man with dissociative personality disorder kills a doctor with one of his “two separate but distinct personalities” while pursuing gender-reassignment surgery - was as ill-conceived in 2006 as it would be in 2020. “Who Ya Gonna Call?” (Season 1, Episode 7) This is my partner … Burton Guster Black Spencer.ġ20. We’d be kinder if this were nestled somewhere in the middle of the show’s run, but as the second-to-last episode? With all those gimmicky jump scares, zombies, and tangents about the perception of reality? It was a betrayal to viewers but a bigger betrayal to Gus, as it still doesn’t meaningfully tackle the “everything is changing” issues he’s so afraid of. The therapist (Bruce Campbell, perhaps the outing’s sole redeeming feature) tries to guide Gus through his lingering abandonment issues with Shawn, but he only makes Gus’s nightmares worse as the duo tries to solve the murder of a gym teacher. Psych’s penultimate episode was not the time to experiment with “A Nightmare on State Street,” which unfolds as a surrealist horror ode with Gus consulting a dream therapist to address his recent uptick in nightmares. “A Nightmare on State Street” (Season 8, Episode 9) The nicest thing we can say about the episode is Shawn’s courtroom objection to “unfair surprisery.”ġ21. The jealous receptionist did it, because green screens can’t hide everything, we guess. The premise - which lacks even the slightest of laughs - revolves around a teacher accused of murdering a womanizing weatherman in front of his green screen, with Shawn and Gus determined to prove her innocence. Cloudy … With a Chance of Improvement,” an episode ranked much higher here. It was so dull it inspired them to try again seven seasons later with “Remake, a.k.a. Roday Rodriguez said he and the cast had crowned “Cloudy … With a Chance of Murder” Psych’s weakest episode due to its bland courtroom narrative. While the rest of this list is subjective and open to friendly debate among fans, this bottom spot is inarguable. “Cloudy … With a Chance of Murder” (Season 1, Episode 12) In celebration of Psych 2 : Lassie Come Home, which premiered July 15, Vulture decided it was time to revisit the series and give it the episode ranking it so richly deserves.ġ22. What could be more important in life?Įight seasons and 120 episodes aired before Psych came to an end in 2015, with two bonus films following in the years since. They never had any guaranteed money, but they sure had guaranteed fun. Viewers could see themselves as, or aspire to be, Shawn and Gus - not as a fake psychic and his brother-in-arms but as the platonic ideal of BFFs, who, if given another chance to do it all over again, wouldn’t change a damn thing about the adventures their little beachfront agency brought into the world. This show is truly a story about the bromance between two lifelong friends who didn’t hesitate to answer the door when their childhood dreams came knocking. The real magic of Psych, though, is how it tells the procedural format to suck it. The brusque head detective Carlton Lassiter (Timothy Omundson), self-assured junior detective Juliet O’Hara (Maggie Lawson), and indulgent chief Karen Vick (Kirsten Nelson) round out Psych’s core team, along with Gus’s hundreds of nicknames and a sedan called the Blueberry. ![]() Shawn’s partner in business and in life is Burton “Gus” Guster (Dulé Hill), who slowly warms to the idea that indulging in the case of the week is far more fulfilling than his nine-to-five gig at a pharmaceutical company. Stuck in arrested development with an endless rotation of obscure pop-culture references, he’s the son of a former department detective (Corbin Bernsen) and possesses a prolific amount of observational and investigative skills, giving him the perfect excuse to begin a new career as a “supernatural consultant” for hire. Shawn Spencer ( James Roday Rodriguez) isn’t actually divining anything from the spirits, of course. Back in 2006, USA Network executives gathered at their conclave and smoked up the network’s blue-skies with their new show selection: Psych, which follows a “psychic detective” and his best friend who help solve an alarmingly high amount of crimes for the Santa Barbara Police Department.
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