Psych, season 8
I've been watching season 8 of Psych. It started out rather rocky, and then seemed to lose its way completely around episode 5. I have a sense of the writers trying to shake up the status quo to give the show a new lease on life, but mostly they've just demonstrated that the show is tired and needs to be put to bed.
Like, Juliet moves away, but she and Shawn don't break up, except it sounds like maybe this is a prelude to breaking up (except it won't be, because Shawn/Juliet has clearly been endgame since day one, never mind that the writers have completely failed to sell it to me)... and then the next three episodes make no attempt to deal with this at all. I mean really.
It all feels awfully disconnected. Psych has never been a high continuity show, but these episodes really feel like they're floating in some strange netherworld where time doesn't actually exist - particularly the horror-parody episode. Maybe I would have appreciated it more if I were more familiar with horror movies. Or maybe it really was just weird and out of place.
Honestly I'm a little sad that Psych didn't go out on the musical episode at the end of season 7. That would have ended things with a bang, and Psych - for all its faults - has given me so much pleasure over the years that I feel like it deserved to go out on a high note.
But I still have one more episode to go, so maybe they'll pull it together for a fitting end.
Like, Juliet moves away, but she and Shawn don't break up, except it sounds like maybe this is a prelude to breaking up (except it won't be, because Shawn/Juliet has clearly been endgame since day one, never mind that the writers have completely failed to sell it to me)... and then the next three episodes make no attempt to deal with this at all. I mean really.
It all feels awfully disconnected. Psych has never been a high continuity show, but these episodes really feel like they're floating in some strange netherworld where time doesn't actually exist - particularly the horror-parody episode. Maybe I would have appreciated it more if I were more familiar with horror movies. Or maybe it really was just weird and out of place.
Honestly I'm a little sad that Psych didn't go out on the musical episode at the end of season 7. That would have ended things with a bang, and Psych - for all its faults - has given me so much pleasure over the years that I feel like it deserved to go out on a high note.
But I still have one more episode to go, so maybe they'll pull it together for a fitting end.