The original post: /r/television by /u/flubbergrubbery on 2025-04-29 09:31:11.
Is Psych one of those shows that has positive reviews because at the time when it came out, it was unique?
It was on my list from a long time. Yesterday I put it up because it is leaving soon on Netflix. I was quite excited to watch it, but as I progressed through the show, it seemed lame to me. The mysteries aren’t mysterious, the quips fall flat and the police force is obnoxiously moronic.
I mean there are hundreds of shows like this where a protagonist with a unique skill set helps an incompetent police force. If as a show maker, you manufacture clues that are visible only to a guy with a 10000x vision whereas everyone else has normal human vision, it makes for a dry watch. It would have the classic Superman problem. Psych feels to me like a bad impersonation of Sherlock Holmes. Again, at least if the mysteries were interesting, the superhuman ability would be justified, but they are not. They seem to be straight of a mass produced detective novel. Please help me understand why it is so highly rated.