If you're not watching "Psych" you're missing the funniest show on television. The program features James Roday and Dule Hill as fake psychic detective Shawn Spencer and his sidekick/best friend Burton "Gus" Guster.
Shawn's father spent his entire life training him to be a cop, so he's overly observant. However, he parlayed this skill into a job with the Santa Barbara Police Department as a psychic detective, dragging Gus along for the ride.
While the whole show is smartly written and hilariously acted, it is the perfect comedic timing between Roday and Hill that really makes the show brilliant.
The way they play off of each other makes the audience think that they are really lifelong friends who often find themselves mixed up in wacky shenanigans.
Shawn is the wild, over-the-top one, so Roday is the one who gets to do all the crazy psychic revelation scenes. Gus is the straight man, leaving Hill to set up Roday's wackiness and either explain it or go along. It's usually the latter.
The way these two experienced actors make their special brand of magic work often causes laugh out loud hilarity that can only take place in the ridiculous world they've created.
Their chemistry brings to mind classic teams like Abbott and Costello, Martin and Lewis or The Rat Pack.
Because it airs on the USA Network "Psych" is one of those shows you have to wait a long time for and then once it's on you can't imagine how you lived without it on your schedule.
With last week's episode "High Top Fade Out" already an instant classic and taking its place among favorites like "American Duos" and "Lights, Camera...Homicidio" you can tell the show is starting to hit its stride and will only get stronger.
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