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Psych is an American detective comedy-drama television series created by Steve Franks for USA Network.[1] The series stars James Roday as Shawn Spencer, a young crime consultant for the Santa Barbara Police Department whose "heightened observational skills"[2] and impressive eidetic memory allow him to convince people that he solves cases with psychic abilities. The program also stars Dul Hill as Shawn's intelligent best friend and reluctant partner Burton "Gus" Guster, as well as Corbin Bernsen as Shawn's father Henry, a former detective with the Santa Barbara Police Department.[3]
Psych premiered on July 7, 2006, following the fifth-season premiere of Monk, and continued to be paired with the series until Monk's conclusion on December 4, 2009. During the second season, an animated segment titled "The Big Adventures of Little Shawn and Gus" was added to the series. Psych was the highest-rated US basic cable television premiere of 2006.[4] USA Network renewed the series for an eighth season on December 19, 2012, to include eight episodes, and ordered two more episodes on June 25, 2013, bringing the episode order to ten.[5][6] On February 5, 2014, USA Network confirmed that the eighth season of Psych would be its last, with the series finale airing on March 26, 2014.[7]
Psych: The Movie, a two-hour television film, aired on USA Network on December 7, 2017, launching the Psych film series,[8] with Franks' hope being to make five more Psych movies following Psych: The Movie.[9] On February 14, 2019, it was announced Psych: The Movie 2 was greenlit and set to premiere in late 2019, for which the main cast would return, but the premiere thereof was subsequently delayed to 2020, with the film renamed Psych 2: Lassie Come Home, and released on NBCUniversal's streaming service, Peacock, July 15, 2020, the day the service officially launched.[10][11][12] On May 13, 2021, Peacock announced a third film, Psych 3: This Is Gus, which premiered on November 18, 2021.[13][14] Three further Psych films are in development.[9]
Most episodes begin with a cold open in the form of a flashback to Shawn and Gus' childhoods. The flashbacks usually involve Shawn and Gus being taught a lesson by a young Henry Spencer (Shawn's father) (Corbin Bernsen), who wishes that his son would follow in his footsteps and become a law enforcement officer. These lessons often play a role for the climax of the episode. As a child, Shawn was taught by Henry to hone his powers of observation and deduction, often using games and challenges to test him. Each flashback also sets the theme for the episode.
Shawn originally becomes known as a psychic when, after calling in tips on dozens of crimes covered on the news which help the police to close the case, the police become suspicious of his knowledge, theorizing that such knowledge could only come from the "inside" and unwilling to believe that it is merely Shawn having honed his observational skills. To avoid being sent to jail, Shawn uses those skills to convince the police that he is psychic; though the interim police chief warns Shawn that if his "powers" are fake, he will be prosecuted. With no choice but to keep up the act, and having proven himself an effective aid to the police in solving crimes, he establishes a psychic detective agency, Psych, and becomes an outside consultant to the police. Pretending to have psychic powers allows him to engage in strange and comic behavior as he turns real clues into hunches and otherworldly visitations. He enjoys teasing lifelong friend Burton Guster (Gus), a pharmaceutical sales representative, about Gus' eclectic interests as they drive around in a blue Toyota Echo nicknamed "The Blueberry"[15] solving crimes.
Anne Dudek's character was written out of the series after the character generated a negative test audience reaction with Lassiter due to their relationship. Maggie Lawson was cast as Juliet O'Hara to serve as a replacement.[17][18]
The theme song for Psych is "I Know You Know" by The Friendly Indians, series creator Steve Franks's band. Some episodes in seasons three through eight use an extended version of "I Know You Know" consisting of the first verse and the chorus,[19] but most episodes use a shortened version consisting of mostly the chorus. In some episodes, the theme song is changed, usually as a tie-in to the theme of the episode to come.
In the "pilot", Roday improvised by picking up a pineapple and saying, "Should I slice this up for the road?" Since then, pineapples have appeared in every episode as a running gag, whether just one in the background or the actual mention of it. It is Shawn's go-to housewarming gift. The pineapple is a major marketing point for items related to the show on the USA website.[20] Fan movements, such as fan-made websites, have also been dedicated to finding a pineapple or pineapple-related object in each episode.[21]
Following the series finale on March 26, 2014, USA Network aired a live aftershow entitled "Psych After Pshow." The hour-long special was hosted by Kevin Pereira and featured series stars and creator/executive producer Steve Franks.[22]
Psych scored a 4.51 rating and an average of 6.1 million total viewers at its premiere, which made it the highest-rated scripted series premiere on basic cable in 2006 in all key demographics (households, P18-49, P25-54, and total viewers), according to a USA Network press release, quoted from the Futon Critic.[4]
William Rabkin has written and published five novels based on the series. The novels are written in third-person narrative style. Additionally, Chad Gervich (Small Screen, Big Picture) has published a crime-fighting guide based on methods presented in the show.
Once production on the original series wrapped, series creator Steve Franks had the idea to bring the Psych universe back in film form later on. On May 8, 2017, USA Network announced Psych: The Movie, a two-hour TV film to air December 7, 2017.[52] All the original main cast would return for the film, directed by series creator Steve Franks and co-written by Franks and series star, James Roday Rodriguez. The first sequel, Psych 2: Lassie Come Home, was released on NBCUniversal's new streaming service, Peacock, on July 15, 2020.[53] A third film, Psych 3: This Is Gus, followed on November 18, 2021.[14] Three further Psych films are in development.[9]
Launched in November 2021, Maggie Lawson and Timothy Omundson have hosted a weekly rewatch podcast of the series and films. Episodes include plot recaps and behind-the-scenes memories from the two hosts. The series also features interviews with cast members, guest stars, and crew members, including writers, directors, and series creator Steve Franks.[54]
Excellent thoughts in your review of Don't Look Up. Now to deepen the matter a bit, I'm an ecological designer, which colours my attitudes to the climate predicament. Specifically, I consider the processes of human induced climate change to be a secondary effect of the larger reality of the human species over-consumption of the energy and material processes of the planet. The tendency for high trophic order species to have such impacts on their environment is widely known in ecological circles. We are not an exceptional species with respect to ecological processes. We are simply able to be far more global and multilayered in our effects due to various cultural and technological "advances". In the end, high trophic order species exhibit boom and bust cycles, extinction, or develop behavioural adaptations that serve to limit populations and consumptive effects (for example, territoriality or mating constraints). I am "optimistic" that we can come to see the necessity and eventual benefits of consciously evolving into symbiont species rather than continuing our dominant collective behaviour, which can only be labelled as a predatory parasites. Another thought- species evolve at the uncomfortable edges of their current habitat. Look to the adaptive responses of some less advantaged regions, rather than expecting the effective adaptation to arise in the comfortable privileged areas of Europe, most of N America and industrialized Asia. I am inspired by Cuba, Kerala, Rwanda, Iceland, the Faroe Islands and some remote regions of Scandinavia and Canada.
What is special and unique about the psychology portrayed in "Don't Look Up" is that it shows how our current media environment (driven by celebrity, sensation, and comfort) and political system can mess with the minds of even the most well-intended climate activists. I say this as someone who felt the need to step back from the frontlines of the climate movement after appearing in a climate documentary! I certainly saw elements of myself in both Leonardo DiCaprio's character and Jennifer Lawrence's character.
I was intrigued when Netflix wrote to invite me to film an \u201Cexperts react\u201D video to a movie that tells the story of a comet coming to destroy earth, that is actually about the climate. Before the film was released and without showing us the whole movie, they played a few clips for myself, an atmospheric scientist, and an expert on conspiracy theories, to get our raw responses. Here\u2019s how that turned out:
So anyway, that\u2019s how I came to learn of Don\u2019t Look Up, the film that everyone and their grandma has streamed since it was released over the holidays, becoming one of the most watched films on Netflix of all time.
As a climate communicator, I\u2019m fascinated by the polarized reviews it has stirred up. But personally, I loved the movie and the immense validation it brought for so many in the climate movement.
Quick recap in case you haven\u2019t seen the film: the story is a metaphor for the climate crisis, as told through a tale about scientists who\u2019ve discovered a massive comet that is on a collision course with Earth. The comet will arrive in 6 months to obliterate all life on the planet if nothing is done to obstruct its path. We follow their challenges communicating this hard truth to leaders, to the public, as well as how difficult it is to emotionally contain it within themselves. Familiar perversities of private interests, manipulative media, mistrusting publics, conspiracy theories, and psychological defences make for big twists and turns. The ending is not a rosy one of humans pulling together to save the day. McKay\u2019s satire takes the foolishness of our current world and reflects it back, in high definition, in our faces.
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