TV Review: Psych 3.13 – Any Given Friday Night at 10PM, 9PM Central
Posted by Kevin Carr (kevin@filmschoolrejects.com) on January 31, 2009
Psych, USA, Airs Friday 10/9c
Episode: “Any Given Friday Night at 10PM, 9PM Central” (Season Three, Episode 13)
Synopsis: When the SBPD finds a severed foot along a hiking trail, they call in Shawn and Gus to find the rest of the body. Through non-psychic shenanigans, they figure out the foot belonged to a field goal kicker for the local pro football team, the Thunderbirds. Shawn and Gus go undercover with the football team, meet their childhood hero and try to solve the case while Lassie and Jules rely on “old-fashioned police work.”
Review: That’s right… every show on television has a football theme this week thanks to the impending Super Bowl. Of course, we all know that Santa Barbara doesn’t really have a pro football team, but so it goes for dramatic license.
After a handful of relatively heavy episodes in this year’s slate (e.g., Gus almost getting killed in a bank robbery and Lassie getting a murder pinned on him), this episode is relatively low key. Sure, there’s a dead guy, but we just started with a foot.
It seems that a lot of the focus has come back on Shawn and Gus being pretty silly. Goofy references are all over the place, and I suddenly have a strange desire to have my own Rae Dawn Chong movie marathon (the 80s stuff, of course, like Commando and The Principal, ‘cause the lady is pushing 50 now). Of course, Shawn’s obsession with football will disappear by next week, I’m sure, now that the big game will be over.
It’s not the greatest episode of Psych on the books, and the clues that Shawn divines are pretty thin, but the interaction between Shawn and Gus works enough… and that’s why we watch the show after all.
Up Next: Jonathan Silverman guest stars, proving that he still has a career without resorting to the top-right corner on Hollywood Squares.
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