the thing is. they’re actors. and this COULD EASILY be a big prank. they have the abilities to make the photos seem very real. and this is probably a prank because it’s april 1st. but also. BUT ALSO. what if the prank was them BEING IN LOVE THE ENTIRE GOSH DANG TIME. AND NOW IT’S REVEALED. BECAUSE LIKE. WHAT WAS COURTNEY’S BLEEPED OUT SENTENCE IN THE FLASHBACK VIDEO. GUYSSSSSS IM SPIRALING THIS IS CRAZY.

it has to be a prank. right. this… oh my gosh. @smoshpostiing HELPPPPPPP

Okay, so, buckle in because I have so much to say about the first episode of Psych, and I already know that this post is going to be extremely long, haha.

So first of all, season one is one of Psych’s best seasons in my opinion, and the first episode is one of my favorites. It’s just so good. And it’s crazy how even though it’s James Roday and Dulé Hill’s first episode, they act like they’ve already known each other and been friends for years- their chemistry is amazing right off the bat.

And Shawn and Gus’ characterizations in this episode are amazing, because as the show goes on they really got watered down, but in this episode- it was amazing. Shawn in this episode was so- I don’t know if this is the right word- but angsty, I guess. And I kind of like it honestly. Lassiter’s ex partner was like “You never know when to give up, don’t you?” And he said something like “Oh, I give up all the time, but only when the moment’s right,” or something like that, and as a “gifted” kid, I felt that. Lmao. And- there’s more that I want to talk about- but I’ll come back around to it later- hang in there.

And Gus is the best. I am Gus on a spiritual level. He has anxiety, (which is actually confirmed because he takes anxiety medication apparently, I didn’t know that). He says that he doesn’t want any part of what Shawn was doing, but he secretly wanted to so bad and Shawn knows that, and said all the right things to give Gus the push he needed to just go for it. And he was having the time of his life, even if he said that he wasn’t. Even when he was running away from the dead bodies screaming, which definitely would’ve been me in that situation, lmao. And then when Shawn solved the case and they were both let go, he had the smuggest little smile on his face, because he knew that Shawn could do it. “Just one more day.” Yeah right, he knew fully well that he was going to do it with Shawn for as long as possible lmao, you’re not fooling anybody.

And then there was Henry and Shawn’s dysfunctional father-son relationship- which even in the first episode is very prominent. And that’s literally how the show started- first scene ever, and it was Shawn doing the hat thing and Henry saying “yeah, that’s adequate.” That pisses me off haha, sorry to everyone who likes Henry. I respect that and can definitely see why people would feel that way- but I just don’t like him very much, haha. Additionally, Shawn didn’t even know that his dad had already been back for a year or so, and they didn’t seem too happy to see each other again which was rough. And later on when Shawn did the hat thing again and even like, noticed things that Henry didn’t, he smiled for a second, which Shawn seemed to be happy about and they could’ve had a moment before Henry ruined it by saying something like “Whatever, you got lucky,” and how he was a disappointment, etc, and then they went back to being angry at each other, which is their main issue I think. Shawn wants Henry’s, I don’t know, approval. He wants that “good job,” but Henry doesn’t want to give it.

And then there’s Lassiter and Shawn’s talk about his arrest, and Shawn brought up that his dad did that so that he could teach him a lesson, so Lassiter was like “Well did you learn it?” And Shawn replied, “I learned that I hated my father.” Which fucking hit me so hard lmao. But then- there’s another scene later on which nobody talks about where Shawn is talking to Mr.McCallum about how he was familiar with disappointing his dad, and how McCallum killed his son, and Shawn spoke about how it was because his son kept letting him down time and time again, before saying that he’d change and he’ll be different, but then just let him down again and how it was the needle that broke the camel’s back- and he was so obviously talking about himself, and that scene was just so raw. I’m losing my mind over it.

Also, I loved officer Allan so much even though she only got, like, two scenes, haha. I wish that she got more than one episode. And it was weird not to see Juliet in this one, haha.

Anyways, there’s so many other scenes that I love, like the shooting range scene, the scene with the guy sneezing on the chicken, Shawn showing Gus the office, Shawn telling the guy to get rid of the shards on his sleeves only for him to brush them onto his leg and boot. Shawn pretending to be Psychic for the first time and working through it. Basically, the entire episode, lmao.

And, yeah, that’s everything I have to say I think. And if you could leave your own thoughts in like, the comments/ a reblog, that would be really cool. Have a nice day. (And sorry that this is so long, lmao).

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A Million Little Things‘ endgame is in sight.

TVLine has learned exclusively that the ABC drama’s creator, DJ Nash, is crafting the series’ upcoming fifth season as its last.

ABC is not commenting for this story, but we’re told the decision to bring the show to a creatively satisfying conclusion was made mutually between Nash, the network and ABC Signature/Kapital Entertainment. (Here’s a list of other TV series we suspect are heading into their final seasons.)

A Million Little Things‘ Season 5 renewal last May came down to the wire, despite the fact that the Season 4 finale ended with a doozy of a cliffhanger involving James Roday Rodriguez’ cancer-battling Gary.

“There’s no question we were a bubble show,” Nash acknowledged to TVLine at the time. “But everybody creatively at ABC was so supportive and wanted to see [a fifth season] happen. And we knew that if it didn’t happen, our fans would be like, “You can’t end a series like that!”

In Season 4, A Million Little Things averaged 4.1 million total weekly viewers and a 0.7 demo rating (with Live+7 playback) — down 20 and 30 percent from its Season 3 tallies. Out of the eight dramas ABC has aired last season, it ranked No. 6 in audience and tied for fifth in the demo. It did, though, enjoy the second-best DVR bump of any ABC series.

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Our time with the Friends of Jon is drawing to a close.

A Million Little Things will end with its upcoming Season 5 , ABC announced Monday, confirming TVLine’s exclusive report from August.

The final season will premiere on Wednesday, Feb. 8, at 10/9c.

“I know seeing this show end may be sad for many people (especially my mom who watches live every week), but I always knew I wanted to follow these friends for five seasons and leave them when the time was right,” series creator DJ Nash said via statement. “When we started making our show, I never could have imagined this incredible community of ‘Millionaires’ who would come together and not only watch, but also share with each other their personal struggles, their pain and ultimately their true grit. I am both honored and humbled by all of it and am so in awe of the incredible actors, writers, directors and crew who lend their talent to make our show.”

He continued: “I am also so grateful that ABC now makes mental health awareness one of the top issues for which it advocates. [Executive producer] Terrence [Coli] and I can’t wait for the Millionaires to watch what we have planned for our final season.”

In Season 4, which ended with a cliffhanger involving the health of James Roday Rodriguez’ Gary, A Million Little Things averaged 4.1 million total weekly viewers and a 0.7 demo rating (with Live+7 playback) — down 20 and 30 percent from its Season 3 totals. Out of the eight dramas ABC aired last season, it ranked No. 6 in audience and tied for fifth in the demo. It also had the second-best DVR bump of any ABC series. 

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Started watching A Million Little Things because my mom was watching it and I like James Roday Rodriguez and David Guintoli and I think they should have changed the name after season one to the "Fuck You Eddie Show"

The cheating thing is bad, but it seemed like Eddie got much more shit about it than Delilah who never seems to apologize and just flies off to France (taking Eddie's baby with her which was a whole other thing).

But no, I'm at the point where it's post car accident and traumatic memory resurfacing and Eddie has been permanently paralyzed and is apparently supposed to just get over it? It's not even been a year and everyone's like, "Dude, move on. Get over it."

And can I talk about how messed up it was that the hospital did no sort of rehab? He nearly died, is now paralyzed, and they just boot him out with no idea how to transfer himself or get up off the floor or anything. And a former addict is saying please don't send me home with opiates and he's sent home with them anyway?

Opiates his wife puts on a high shelf just out of reach when Eddie is in extreme pain and he's just supposed to know they're there and not touch them. This way we can act shocked and hurt when we later find out he did manage to get them and oh, by the way, is now addicted.

The only one who even bothered to think about Eddie's state of wellbeing was Darcy and she still hated him for cheating on Katherine! She was the only one going, hmm, you know, being hit by a car that drove off, being in severe pain, and having your life permanently altered is maybe something we should have addressed? Maybe we weren't being fair to Eddie to expect everything to go back to normal not even half a year later?

So then Eddie goes to rehab and that was terrible as well. Way to focus on how everything is always your fault Eddie.

Oh, then Katherine leaves you which I'm not going to blame her or anything, but still. Katherine, lady, there were very clear reasons for Eddie's relapse you don't need to bar him from having joint custody, that's ridiculous and any court would have gone with the same solution Eddie himself came up with. Weekly drug test. He's actively doing a program. And then to talk down to him about him not working when their agreement was he would be the SAHP while Katherine went on a partner track at her law firm. If he had decided he wanted to do more with his music or anything there was no way Katherine would have been able to do her career.

And while I love Gary he always seems to come down on Eddie harsher than is warranted. He steps up to help, but there's an awful lot of belittling going on.

And sorry not sorry, the divorce party for Katherine was kind of messed up. She didn't want it cause she had lots of emotions to work through, and the friends throwing her this party are also supposed to be Eddie's friends too?

This rant ended up longer than intended and just.... I have a lot of feelings, lol.

BUDDY GAMES (2019)

Starring Josh Duhamel, Dax Shepard, Dan Bakkedahl, Nick Swardson, Kevin Dillon, James Roday, Olivia Munn, Linda Darlow, Lucie Guest, Stephen Farrelly, Jensen Ackles, and Neal McDonough.

Screenplay by Josh Duhamel, Jude Weng, Bob Schwartz.

Directed by Josh Duhamel.

Distributed by Saban Films. 97 minutes. Rated R.

A couple of years ago, there was a pretty awful comedy called Tag, a “based-on-a-true-story” bore about a bunch of jerky 30-something guys who have had an ongoing tag game for decades, in which the guys would do anything to win the crown, including fighting, injuring each other, hurting innocent bystanders and playing scatological pranks on each other. The movie was a deserved bomb, quickly forgotten – as should be.

Now, here comes Buddy Games to do the seemingly impossible (as well as incomprehensible), be a cheesier, uglier, and less funny rip off of the idea of that already terrible film. Buddy Games even blatantly steals Tag’s tag line and uses it word for word in the script: “We don’t stop playing because we get old; we get old because we stop playing.”

Believe me, Buddy Games makes Tag look like an Oscar contender. Just the fact that several talented actors actually made this film is just depressing. Even worse, Josh Duhamel, an actor I’ve always kind of liked, not only co-stars in this ensemble, but he also co-wrote this big stinking turd and made it his directorial debut.

Talk about starting at the bottom.

And he drags some Hollywood buddies down in the muck with him. Every single character in this film is absolutely obnoxious. Granted, the bigger names (well, slightly bigger names) – Dax Shepard, Kevin Dillon, James Roday and Duhamel himself – play slightly less obnoxious characters.

Oh, they are all disgusting in their own ways, but the real heavy lifting of odiousness is done by Dan Bakkedahl (who has apparently been in Veep, but I don’t remember him, really) and Nick Swardson (one of the least funny members of Adam Sandler’s posse – and remember that includes Rob Schneider).

They all play a bunch of childhood buddies who get together every year to do a bunch of extreme games, which is really just an excuse to get drunk, make fun of each other and occasionally tea bag each other when one of them passes out. (There is a LOT of testicular humor in Buddy Games, as well as one of the guys losing his balls being a major plot point.)

I could say more about Buddy Games, but really, what’s the point? If you think a bunch of grown-assed men hitting each other in the nut sack is the height of comedy, then maybe you’ll want to give Buddy Games a shot. The rest of us should avoid it like the plague.

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The Resident Rulebreakers: Season 2, Episode 28 - Surviving Hiatus: Week 30 - Rude Awakenings and the Raptor: AJ’s First Episode

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We would like to congratulate President-Elect Biden and Vice-President Elect Harris on their election to the White House. VP-elect Harris makes history by being the first woman elected to this office, and also the first POC elected to be the VP of the US. She reminds us that you can do anything if you dream it. We're excited to see 2021 and what it brings. 

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In this podcast: We discuss episode 1x12 of The Resident, "Rude Awakenings and the Raptor". Written by Michael Notarile and directed by James Roday Rodriguez. 

- Our introduction to AJ 

- Bradley's accident and the wonderful impassioned monologue at the end of the episode. 

 - Nic's continued fight against Lane Hunter 

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Psych 2: Lassie Come Home Easter Egg and Reference Guide

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The following contains spoilers for Psych 2: Lassie Come Home.

As fun as 2017’s Psych: The Movie was, its 2020 sequel Psych 2: Lassie Come Home will likely supplant it in Psych-Os’ hearts, because it’s got 500% more Carlton Lassiter (Timothy Omundson). But how does it stack up to its predecessor in terms of Psych callbacks and pop culture homages? Using our Spencer powers of observation, we’ve tried to catch every recurring inside joke between Shawn (James Roday Rodriguez) and Gus (Dulé Hill), plus all the episodic-specific bits. It’s a feature-length Hitchcock homage, but it’s also the toughest Easter egg hunt of your life. C’mon, son!

Psych 2: Lassie Come Home Easter Eggs and References

The title is a reference to Lassie Come Home, the 1943 Lassie movie about the beloved dog making her way home from Scotland. A German-language remake came out early in 2020.

It’s always a treat to hear the Psych theme song “I Know, You Know,” performed by creator Steve Franks and his band The Friendly Indians.

Lassiter wakes up to Shawn and Gus hovering above him at the recovery clinic is a throwback to when they kidnapped him for his bachelor party in “Deez Nups” and he came to with them screaming “Surpriiise!”

Morrissey the rescue dog reprises his role from Psych: The Movie in being adorable, incredibly nosy, and oblivious to Shawn’s hissing commands.

Sarah Chalke’s nurse character Dolores is most likely a nod to San Francisco’s Mission Dolores church and cemetery, the location for Carlotta Valdes’ grave in Vertigo.

Right out the gate, Dolores is treated to the requisite Gus nickname: “My name is Shawn Spencer, and this is my partner Bill Poopingtons.” However, Shawn and Gus take a sidebar for a very meta argument about their ongoing bit (while fitting in another bit):

“Gus, don’t be the night your dad fell asleep inside your mom. We can’t just stop doing bits we’ve been doing for ten years. We have fans, they have expectations, there’ll be a huge backlash.”

“Shawn, we are two dumbasses, we do not have fans.”

Compromise: Gus gets right of refusal until they land on a nickname he prefers. And so:

Bill Poopingtons > All the Pips in One

Ding-Dong Ditch > Claude O’Dern > Big Poppa Pump > Lemon-a Lemon-a Lemon-a Liiime

Leggo My Eggo > Norman Brown Butter > Dijon Hounsou

Gus also calls himself Jermajesty, channeling some Jackson Five energy.

“Black Jello” was Gus’ nickname in their adult dodgeball league.

The Herschel House is likely a nod to Herschel Daugherty, who directed over two dozen episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents…

Gus and Shawn are still bickering over driving the drivers ed car, even if we don’t see it in the movie. They do manage to be just as bad at turning the right direction when riding a motorcycle together.

“Now I know this ‘goofy little white guy/sexy black dude’ routine the two of you have going like the back of my scrubs.” Sarah Chalke played Elliot on Scrubs, whose JD/Turk bromance walked so that Shawn/Gus could run.

Shawn calls Dolores “the nurse from Color of Night,” the 1994 Bruce Willis erotic mystery thriller that won a Golden Raspberry for Worst Picture.

The boys get Jamba Juice because you never turn down an opportunity for a Jamba.

Shawn likens Gus’ pubic hair to Eddie Murphy’s mustache in his 1987 stand-up film Raw.

Shawn offers the dismembered hand to Gus to “knuck it up softly,” per their penchant for fist-bumping. 

They later do fist-bump outside the old Psych offices, but not before channeling Han Solo and Chewbacca in Star Wars: The Force Awakens: “Gus, we’re home.” “[Wookiee sound]”

Psych has become a French-themed cat café… for now, at least. It’s not an alternative universe from Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, but the current subletter’s pop-up business. The proprietor (not the girl from Orphan) is played by Allison Miller, James Roday Rodriguez’s co-star in A Million Little Things.

“I am a psychic. He is a sympathetic pooper.” Poor Gus’ intestinal system gets called out again.

Henry’s (Corbin Bernsen) put-on voice gets compared to Tom Waits, Kathleen Turner, Harvey Fierstein, and Diedrich Bader.

Shawn neglected to tell his landlord that he’d moved, which tracks with his behavior in the series finale “The Break-Up.”

Henry reveals that in addition to telenovelas, he enjoys zeitgeist-y sobfests: “You left behind a slow cooker with a three-pound roast in it. You nearly This Is Us-ed the entire block.”

“This Is Us—Dad, why are you watching that show? They have the same show on ABC but newer”: Shawn’s shoutout to A Million Little Things.

Lassiter mistakes Reese Kessler, his supposed shooter, for country music singer Conway Twitty.

Lassiter’s to-do list includes “tape Galavant,” the short-lived musical comedy fantasy series created by Dan Fogelman (This Is Us), in which Timothy Omundson played King Richard. It also includes items poking fun at Lassiter’s crankiness (“yell at nature,” “chirping bird d-day plan”) and tenacity (“solve black dahlia”), and heartstring-tugging items (“pre-register for ironman” as in the triathlon). He also has written down Shawn’s S.E.I.Z.E. mantra from his short-lived career as Lassiter’s life coach in “S.E.I.Z.E. the Day”: Seize Eggs I don’t know Zebra Eighties.

Juliet (Maggie Lawson) lying to Shawn sounds strange, though not as strange as Lupita Nyong’o—the Tethered Lupita—in Jordan Peele’s Us.

Shawn’s “romantic dinner” for Jules is the menu from A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (jelly beans, pretzels, buttered toast, popcorn, and ice cream sundaes) because it’s all they had at the gas station on the way home.

That prompts an iconic “C’mon, son!” from Gus.

Gus’ ringtone is “I’m Mr. Bootyman,” which is both Henry’s ringtone and the song featured in Buzz McNab’s bachelorette party stripper routine in “Deez Nups.”

Gus’ (technically Jules’) green snuggie bears a striking resemblance to official Psych contest merch.

Lassiter spotting mysterious bleeding figures out his window is an homage to Rear Window.

Richard Schiff (as Dr. Herschel) was Dulé Hill’s co-star in The West Wing.

Potterhead Gus wants to know if there are any people hiding in the pipes of the Herschel House, “speaking in their own tongue, perhaps Parsel.”

The Psych boys’ map of suspects briefly includes the Hell Hag from Gus’ dreams in “A Nightmare on State Street.”

Shawn has only been to Norway once with his brother-in-law Ewan O’Hara (John Cena), but they don’t talk about that… Maybe that’s where Psych: The Movie went after its cliffhanger ending?

Ova’s Norwegian song/chant toast at the Viking’s Ice Den is very similar to the Swedish toast in “Right Turn or Left for Dead.”

Ova’s violent son Per is first described as “the bearded Daryl Hannah.”

Shawn’s excuse to Detective Buzz McNab (Sage Brocklebank) for being in Santa Barbara is that he forgot a frisbee signed by German writer/director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck.

Shawn’s first reaction to Jules potentially being pregnant: “You know the windows in the loft don’t even fully close, right? I’m gonna have to replace them, otherwise this is Baby’s Day Out all over again.” As Gus reassures him, he always did get worked up over John Hughes’ worst idea.

At the old Psych offices, Shawn pulls out the jousting lance from “100 Clues”—as well as a pineapple! He looks about to ask, “Should we cut this up for the road?” (his question during the pineapple’s first appearance in the pilot, plus at the end of Psych: The Movie) but stops himself.

When Lassie believes that fellow patient Mr. Wilkerson (Kadeem Hardison) has been walking around, Shawn and Gus have to go “full Dirty Rotten Scoundrels” to interrogate the supposedly catatonic patient.

Shoutout to Jessie Spano’s infamous “I’m so excited, I’m so excited, I’m so scared!” speed speech from Saved by the Bell.

If it’s not Scrubs, the boys are getting compared to Ren and Stimpy.

Mary Lightly (Jimmi Simpson) returns in another incredible, extra-hallucinatory look into Shawn’s brain… this time as a baby, since Shawn’s got fatherhood on the brain.

“We got jackaled!” Gus shouts upon learning that Wilkerson can walk—a reference to “hitting the jackal switch,” or going into stealth mode.

Shawn has always had a thing for singer Jewel, even after the Civil War movie (1999’s Ride with the Devil) and the Bollywood song.

Of course there’s a nasty dance when Shawn and Gus figure out who they think is behind everything.

Gus declares that “I am not going to let you shoot Shules’ baby!” only for the Chief (Kirsten Nelson) to ask, “What’s a Shules?” That’s the fans’ name for Shawn/Jules, a cute nod to a series OTP.

And of course, we can’t forget the fact that Jazmyn Simon, who plays Selene, is Dulé Hill’s real-life wife.

More than once, Shawn quotes The Handmaid’s Tale in reference to Gus and Selene’s baby: “Praise be” and “Blessed is the fruit.”

Dolores compliments Lassiter’s “chest of hair plentiful enough to wake all of Destiny’s Child.”

Shawn comes up with possible names for Gus’ child: Shaft, Shaftie, or D’Shaft—just like Gus’ nickname Sh’Dynasty (with a “God’s comma,” or apostrophe) from “Santabarbaratown.”

They also both coo “c’mon son” to Selene’s womb.

Selene’s proposal to Gus includes his negotiation that he and Shawn have adjacent homes with connecting pools, a callback to Shawn and Gus talking about their dream setup in “The Break-Up”; as well as Pluto! She asks, “Will you make me the happiest woman on this planet, on Eres, and Pluto?”

Shawn tells Juliet that “you’re my person,” the iconic Grey’s Anatomy line (though one would argue that Gus more accurately is his person).

When Lassiter stands (shut up, you’re crying) to meet Marlowe (Kristy Swanson), they place their palms together—like they did when he would visit her in jail, like they did at their wedding. My heart.

Join us on the Easter egg hunt—let us know what references we missed!

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Ranking Hulu’s ‘Into the Dark’ Series

Hulu made every horror fans dream come true by making Into the Dark. Every month they gave us a Blumhouse produced episode that was based off a holiday from that month! To be honest I reallynenjoyed all of them cause I love seeing fresh original ideas! I have been watching and ranking these and here it finally is! This post will have ***SPOILERS!!!*** and if you loved this season don’t worry, Hulu just ordered a second one! Enjoy!

12. The Body (Halloween)

The Body is funny at points but honestly it’s not good. Seeing as the theme was Halloween I just expected a lot fucking more! The concept of someone with a literal dead body acting like its part of a costume is smart but it just wasn’t executed well.

Director: Paul Davis

Writer: Paul Fisher & Paul Davis

11. Treehouse (International Women’s Day)

Treehouse was interesting but I don’t know something about it just wasn’t good. I mean I’m all for women getting much needed revenge but at points the film lagged a bit but I really did enjoy the cast in this one!

Director: James Roday

Writers: James Roday & Todd Harthan

10. They Come Knocking (Father’s Day)

Okay this one genuinely kind of scared me cause I had no idea what the fuck was going on but the mom coming back was um, TERRIFYING. Also like I wish Claire (Josephine Langford) was nicer to her little sister like stop being a bitch she’s GRIEVING.

Director: Adam Mason

Writers: Shane Van Dyke & Carey Van Dyke

9. I’m Just F*cking With You (April Fools Day)

I liked this one because you never knew what the fuck was going on or what was gonna happen next but it’s also the reason I ranked it low. There was no rhyme or reason to it and I didn’t really like the ending I felt so bad! But, sometimes things don’t need to make sense to make it thrilling and that’s exactly what this episode’s about.

Director: Adam Mason

Writers: Gregg Zehentner & Scott Barkan

8. School Spirit (First Day of School)

I’m a sucker for a school themed horror film and this little horrific breakfast club was a pleasant entry into the series. It was pretty obvious who the killer was and the story was cliche but the end is what kinda shocked me. Even though she went through complete hell, a boy should know not to get in the way of a girl trying to go Ivy! Also a great performance by Girl Meets World alum Corey Fogelmanis!

Director: Mike Gan

Writers: Patrick Casey, Josh Miller, and Mike Gan

7. Pure (Daughter’s Day)

This episode was so fucked up but necessary! The fathers having that much control over their daughters is just so creepy and disgusting. I really wish this movie was more supernatural but I liked the message. Scott Porter was actually incredible as Pastor Seth and he made the episode. No one should be in charge of women’s bodies except women! Period!

Director: Hannah Macpherson

Story by: Paul Fischer and Paul Davis

Writer: Hanna Macpherson

6. Culture Shock (Independence Day)

Culture Shock is my middle point like I didn’t dislike it but there’s a lot I did like. I hate Trump more than anything so I fucking absolutely hate that there are innocent people just withering away at the border. This film was good cause it showed how hard it is to get here and to fully live the American Dream even if that dream ends up being a nightmare. Also the concept of this episode sounds exactly like something Trump would do. I don’t blame Marisol for going back to Mexico, yeesh.

Director: Gigi Saul Guerrero

Writers: Efren Herenandez, Gigi Saul Guerrero, and James Benson

5. Pooka (Christmas)

Ok now these nest episodes were my favorite of the bunch and I know people are gonna be mad that I put Pooka so low but this is MY list okurrr!? Pooka reminded me so much of a Black Mirror episode. I liked how it didn’t spell anything out and left you with your imagination to figure out what the fuck just happened. Also why were those people buying that stuffed animal for their kids like it LOOKS and sounds creepy as fuck!

Director: Nacho Vigalondo

Writers: Gerald Olson

4. All That We Destroy (Mother’s Day)

A mother would do anything for their child especially their son and that’s more than true in this episode. I really loved this one because I thought it was such an original concept. It also really brings up the whole nature verse nurture debate. The cloning the girl to see what would happen was just so cool to me. The end had me wondering though was he the one buried in the backyard and the mom used his DNA to clone him when he was younger? I thought the cast was great but I’m also bias because I love Israel Broussard who’s also in Blumhouse’s Happy Death Day franchise which is lowkey my favorite horror franchise.

Director: Chelsea Stardust

Writers: Sean Keller & Jim Agnew

3. Flesh & Blood (Thanksgiving)

Honestly in this episode I felt so bad for Kimberly (Diana Silvers) like imagine being terrified of going outside and then you realize your fucking dad is a psychopath!? This episode really could’ve been a full length movies and the acting was just absolutely phenomenal.

Director: Patrick Lussier

Writer: Louis Ackerman

2. New Year, New You (New Year)

New Year, New You was the episode that got me into the show in the first place. I love Suki Waterhouse so I was eager to watch this! I genuinely did not think they invited Danielle (Carly Chaikin) over to terrorize her but they really were tryna tell home girl how much she fucking sucked! I loved loved loved the end of this movie and how Alexis (Suki Waterhouse) turned it around and made a profit off of the tragedy. You go girl!

Director: Sophia Takal

Story by: Sophia Takal & Adam Gaines

Writer: Adam Gaines

1. Down (Valentine’s Day)

Down is the best episode because the entire time you’re just captivated. I liked this message cause women can do nothing and guys feel they have the right to be with them. The way he stalked her and then thought she owed him something boiled my blood! Thankfully Jennifer (Natalie Martinez) was smarter than John (Matt Lauria) and got amazing final girl revenge. My only thing is, did he have to kill his friend and his girlfriend?!

Director: Daniel Stamm

Writer: Kent Kubena

i’m finally gonna talk about shawn’s gender again

In Canon

played by: James Roday

played as: cisgender male, white american

pronouns: he/his

legal name: Shawn Spencer

goes by: Shawn Spencer

why: it’s his name

fun fact: frankly this show made borderline transphobic comments on occasion. not so much that you (i) wouldn’t watch the show, but enough that when you heard it you’d say ‘yikes.’

My Roleplay:

played by: Karla Souza

played as: amab genderfluid who mostly identifies as female, mexican american

pronouns: she/hers mainly, doesn’t mind he/they

legal name: Juanita Selena Juarez Spencer

goes by: Juanita to her family, Juani/Shawnie to some close friends, Shawn Spencer in her professional life

why: like most poc with ~Exotic~ names, people kept butchering it and imposing their own nicknames. she decided to take agency over the situation and suggest Shawn as an alternative. This stuck especially in school to the point where classmates and friends would call her by it, and she realized she liked the way a ‘male’ name felt. Henry and Maddy respected it, but still call her by her legal name too (which is okay with Shawn). Between high school graduation and season 1, Shawn held nearly 60 different jobs. She found that going by a ‘white’ name was much easier than offering it as an alternative upfront. Flash-forward to the start of canon/creation of the Psych agency, she likes having a bit of personal detachment from her professional work, so. Shawn Spencer is her professional name.

fun fact: I play Shawn as autistic, an aspect I see in the canon portrayal that isn’t explicitly mentioned.

About The Mun:

played by: myself, but in ooc posts I use Kevin Kline

played as: afab nonbinary who mostly identifies as female, white american

pronouns: she/hers

fun fact: I’m autistic

so do we at least see maybe where i’m coming from

Scary Saturday Night Sleepover

Movie Recommendation—Gravy

Did anyone else watch Scary Saturday Night Sleepover on Discovery Kids? We did, and while those shows are gone, we want to carry on the tradition. Every Saturday night, we’ll post a horror-related recommendation for you: a movie, a book, or some other super spooky piece of media.

This week, we’re recommending Gravy, the 2015 horror flick directed by Psych’s James Roday. Ever wondered what would happen if a group of cannibals took over a Mexican restaurant on Halloween night? Probably not, but now you don’t have to. Fair warning though: when we say cannibalism, we mean serious cannibalism.

In Gravy, a team of killer cannibals comes into a Mexican restaurant just as they’re closing, trapping everyone inside for some good old-fashioned torture games before they kill them off and eat them. But of course, the staff aren’t going down without a fight. Roday brings his trademark humor to the film, while not denying horror fans the terror and gore that they are used to in a movie like this. That tone, paired with a fantastic cast, makes this movie different from anything else we’ve seen, and definitely worth a watch.

The lies stop now for Eddie (David Giuntoli), who was sober until he started taking pills for the pain after the accident that left him paralyzed. In the April 1 episode of A Million Little Things, the friend group becomes privy to what he’s been doing when Regina (Christina Moses) notices her Vicodin is missing. (Eddie took it.)

Rome (Romany Malco) and Gary (James Roday Rodriguez) go to Eddie and Katherine’s (Grace Park) house to call their friend out but find him trying to pull himself up the stairs; he’s trying to get to his son, Theo (“the most adorable, non-animated Disney property,” says Giuntoli of Tristan Byon’s character), after raging out on the car.

It belongs to a neighbor who yells at Theo that he doesn’t want “that China virus around here.” And that racist comment comes after one of Theo’s classmates asks him to wear a mask during their virtual class. (Though it may seem like the truth about Eddie taking pills may pull focus [for now], Eddie and Katherine will talk to Theo like they’d planned about what happened, Giuntoli says.)

Eddie not only admits to his friends that he’s screwed up, but when Katherine comes home, he tells his wife he’s been taking narcotics and can’t stop.

Giuntoli teases what’s next, why the next few episodes have been hard for him, and more.

Does Eddie feel relieved that his wife and friends know he’s been taking pills?

David Giuntoli: Yes. Eddie was feeling the weight and the pressure building on him throughout his time post-hospital. He hates, hates lying to Katherine. He started taking pills one at a time. He thought it could get him through the night, then the weekend, then he just spiraled as an addict. It slowly happened to him. He was not expecting it to become an out-of-control situation.

How’s Eddie and his state of mind at the end of this episode and in the next few episodes? He says he can’t stop taking the pills.

Eddie is spiraling. Eddie is absolutely under the spell of these narcotics and he knows he’s deep into his old habits of addiction. It’s not some place that is new for him to be. This is a situation he’s dealt with in the past, so he recognizes it and he’s terrified. And I think Eddie believes he’s going to lose everything, his entire family, because of what just happened.

We only see Eddie tell Katherine the truth and her immediate reaction. What’s next? Do we pick up immediately from that moment?

Yes, it takes off immediately from that moment. The conversation just continues in the next episode. It’s difficult for Katherine to hear, I would say. The biggest breach of trust was that he lied to her. I think Katherine would have been able to handle the news that he was taking these pills because he was in tremendous pain from a trauma — he was hit by a car, I’m not excusing him but it’s not like he started drinking for fun again — so she would have understood that. It’s the idea of hiding it is probably not going to be great for their relationship.

This comes after the show did a pretty good job of redeeming Eddie after the affair and making me root for him and Katherine. How worried should we be about their future?

As David Giuntoli the actor, it was devastating to watch Eddie and live as Eddie going through these steps and making all these mistakes because I have so much invested in him and Katherine and all they’ve worked for. I will just say the next few episodes for David Giuntoli have been hard to read. There’s some real difficult moments.

And this comes as she’s starting to lean on someone else, Alan [Terry Chen].

How many hot guys does she work with? There was Hunter [Henderson Wade], who was just a tasty treat, let’s be honest. Now we have Alan. Come on! What is going on?

Katherine and Eddie have worked through a lot. We have a son who we love more than anything. They may be able to work through this too, I just can’t really say.

What about Eddie’s relationship with Theo? Will that ever be the same? Rome talks with him.

Things are never really solved in a talk, are they? They might help in the moment. Theo’s at this impressionable age, he’s 11, and the things he’s seen his father go through are pretty jarring. Theo sees Eddie’s absolute drug-induced rage, whether this guy he raged out on deserved it or not — I believe he did. It’s very frightening for a son to see a father or a parent out of control and Eddie was out of control. Eddie’s been a great dad. They have a very strong relationship. We’ll see.

Gary’s getting Eddie into rehab. How’s that going to go?

Eddie’s looking for anything and he will happily go to rehab. He knows he needs it. He’s not going to pretend like he can overcome this addiction on his own. He knows he cannot.

Will we see more of Eddie’s recovery from the accident? As he says, he’s still in physical pain.

Yeah. Once you’re in a wheelchair, that pain might subside a little bit, but living in a wheelchair can be an excruciating existence. Imagine sitting all day for your work day but then compound that by all of the time. There’s going to always be discomfort. Eddie is now going to make sure he is recovering from his addiction. He is going to be able to get non-narcotic pain help. If he does get on a pain medication again, I don’t think it’s going to be done lightly. He will have a support system there to dole it out to him. We’ll touch a little bit on all of this.

I don’t think he understood that typical painkillers are not going to do the trick; I don’t care how many Advil you take, this is a serious injury with a tremendous amount of pain. Had Eddie gone in a little more understanding of that, maybe this wouldn’t have happened.

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Help the Houswife!

This may be a bit of reading so i will apologize in advance.

I need help from someone, anyone! At this point anything will help.

Background: i am 26 years old with a 6 year old daughter and a husband. (10+ years high school sweethearts) I live in a home that my mother & father own. I live here rent free, with a catch.. My 24 yer old brother and his 6 year old son must live here rent free as well. It is up to the both of us to keep up on the property and make home repairs since we live rent free. It has been this way for 3 years now. In these 3 years my brother, lets call him Taylor.. Has not had a job at all. His son does not have a mother. She dropped him off at 3 months old and has never looked back.. He does not get child support. Nor does he get foodstamps or medical insurance because he will not go for child support, he blantly refuses. Therefore he brings nothing into the household. My husband has honestly the shittest job there is. Hes a foreman for a fence company but sees between 2-300 a week. His company says hes only been a foreman for 4 months so hes still in “training” whatever that means. It is next to impossible to live off of but we make it work! Taylor doesnt help with daily upkeep on the house. He stays at the nieghbors house 80% of the time. He comes over with his son gets food, drinks whatever they need leaves a huge mess then leaves. He doesnt bathe his son, he once went 2 weeks before i realized little dude hadnt had a bath! Little dude doesnt have to pick up toys. Little dude can dump out 10,000 legos and when i aak who is going to pick them up Taylor answers with “well if YOU want them picked up, YOU will do it.” I do all the chores here, i dont ask my husband to do much (husband isnt completely innocent we’ll get to him in a moment) i have gotten Taylor to do dishes 2x in 3 years. Taylor goes around the neighborhood and picks up other peoples trash like furniture, tables, broken tools, busted lawn mowers anything you can think of is piled high in the front yard. My neighborhood calls my yard the junk yard and its so embarrassing! If i ask my parents for help they tell me “you guys are adults, we let you live here rent free so work your problems out with yourselves” and you know i totally agree with that! But why wont Taylor grow up, get with the program and raise his child?! Today was the last straw. The event that happened roday made me make this post.. We live in a 2 story house, Taylor & little dude have the upstair all to themselves. There is a foyer entryway before you get to the stairs that is blocked off by a closed door. Today i seen something white wigglying under the door (no carpet) i opened the door and the floor was COVERED in dog poop and maggots!! I had a mini panic attack then RAN to go get the bleach. I bleached everything!! Then when he came back for a drink run from the neighbors, i sreamed at him WTF?! We have kids that live here! If you want to live like that fine but YOU WILL NOT DO THIS TO YOUR CHILD! He looked at me, blinked and walked out of the door headed for the neighbors house. My parents also are not innocent, on one hand they tell us to work it out.. On the other hand they will call me on payday and ask “can you give Taylor $20” umm whyy?? “So he can get a little weed, hes a single father he needs to blow off some steam” if i dont give him the cash i have to listen for days about how my parents have helped me out so much by not charging me rent and i should help them out by helping Taylor. Doesnt make sense to me. or my parents make excuses for him “hes a man he shouldnt have to clean as much as you” or “they dont make that much of a mess how hard is it to just do it for them?” I have spent 2 years begging my husband to move us out, he cant afford it. He suggested i get a job. So i did. For 3 weeks. Taylor was home watching both kids while i worked. I would come home after 8/9 hour shift and clean my ass off. Dishes, sweep, mop, collect all trash from throughout the day, laundry.. Too the point my husband is screaming at me to sit down and stop, but i cant i am the person that if i spill a drink on the floor i will get a towel to clean it, my husband and brother do not.. It will sit there untill i find it. I get shit from my husband about all this as well. Hes pissed taylor is treating me like a slave and taking it out on me, saying im the reason all this is happening, because i wont stand up for myself.. But my father has looked him in the eyes and said “Taylor can do whatever he wants and needs to do in his fathers house if yall dont like it find somewhere to pay rent” my father knows 100% if we leave he has to come here clean the house pay his bills buyhis food and cook it for him, my father said he will do anything for his son and granson.. This situation has sent me to the mental hospital. I got prescribed buspars so whenever im mad and have to spend 4 hours deep cleaning the house everyone tells me to go take my meds.. Uhh YALL ARE THE REASON IM ON THEM! My husband has taken up drinking beer to the point of passing out every single night because of this. I hate it. When i was 8 years old i made a promise to my father. He made me promise that i would NEVER marry an alcoholic. When we got together almost 11 years ago he was completely against any alcohol. Now he says blame your brother for this beer i cant handle all this. I beg him to stop drinking but he screams at me that he is a grown man with a job and can do what he wants and says he doesnt care about a promise i made with a man who is letting another man treat me like shit. But the promise honestly does mean so much too me. I hate the beer. I hate the smell. I hate the smell of his breath (that he constantly swears im crazy cause “my breath dont smell like beer” as hes taking a sip of beer) i hate having to pick up ALL the beer cans EVERY morning. I have asked my husband for 8 months if i could get my nails done.. We cant afford it but we can afford beer every day!

Really what can i do? How do i handle this? How do i get my brother and husband to all work together as adults to get things done? Right now i am a slave and i want things to change, im desperate S.O.S

Turn around, Kass

Wherein Kass learns that dragons do, in fact, exist.

Based off of this post.

“The Ancient Song of Pagos Woods.”

It seems that a song has been passed down through the ages in the Pagos Woods area of Faron. The song references mythical creatures such as dragons and giant serpents. I wonder is such creatures ever really existed. Or perhaps they still exist today! -Kass

Link looks up from the journal, and turns slightly to his right, towards the Gerudo Highlands. Farosh was gently undulating in the sky, as she did nearly every day. Turning around, Link walks over to the large blue Rito and taps on his shoulder.

“Hmm? Ah, would you like me to repeat the song for you, traveller?” Link shakes his head, and instead points in the direction of the dragon.

Kass’ gaze follows until they meet up with the golden spirit. He blinks. “Oh!” Several off-key accordion notes harmonize with his footsteps as he runs to the opposite side of the mushroom. “A dragon…! Thank you, Link. Wow.”

The Hylian smiles amusedly, then says, “I can get you a better view.”

“You can what?”

“There’s a place with a much better view of the dragon. I’ll take you there on horseback.”

“...I can fly, you know.”

“And horses are faster, you know.”

Kass’ eyes light up, and he joins Link atop Epona after descending Washa’s Bluff. It’s about a day’s travel - at least, with neither the horse nor Link particularly keen on sleeping. Which they aren’t. The horse trots across Floria Bridge. Kass has fallen ungracefully asleep on Link, bill hooked on the hilt of the Master Sword. If he were any lower, it’d probably be digging into his shoulder.

They make it to Ebara Forest, carefully avoiding a nest of monsters on the right. The darkness of night probably helps with that. Link shakes Kass’ head. As he blinks awake, Link says, “We gotta get to Riola Spring. If you fly up there, I’ll meet you.”

“Around here’s not ideal for that. I’ll climb with you.”

Link raises an eyebrow as Kass tucks his accordion under his arm and grabs the cliff face. The expression turns to surprise as he hooks his beak into the rock. The Hylian shakes his head and follows suit. By climbing, not biting the wall.

By the time they’ve made it up above Rodai Lake and climbed up to Riola Spring, dawn had broken the horizon.

“So…”

Link holds up a finger, looking at the time on his Sheikah Slate. 4:55 AM. Kass looks around at the spring, as though the dragon might suddenly just breach the surface of-

“AAAAH!” Kass’ scream briefly drowns out the sound of Farosh emerging from the water. He’s soon overtaken by the crackle of lightning, the bellowing gust, and the dragon’s own breathing. And also, to some extent, the thump of him landing on his butt.

“How’d you like that?” Link asks, as soon as he can be heard.

Being Hispanic in 2017

Just a few thoughts on being hispanic in todays media as well as misconceptions surrounding Mexicans.

 (Warning: I talk about the one who shall not be named...Trump)

Background info: I am a half white half Mexican woman who grew up in a white ass town in Massachusetts. 

Media:

I feel like actors that are latino or hispanic are put into small boxes for what kind of roles they can play in films. They are always either sexy, maids or teen moms and are almost always loud and obnoxious. For example Jennifer Lopez in Maid in Manhattan or Sofía Vergara in Modern Family. Actresses of hispanic or latino background almost never get big important roles. James Roday, the lead from Psych, is half Mexican but looks completely white therefor is excused from the typical stereotypes. On the other hand when looking at directors and writers for film, it is seldom that hispanics or latinos are well known for their craft, the only person I can really think of right now being Lin Manuel-Miranda, who has indeed become a great influence and figure for the hispanic community. It's hard, being half hispanic myself, to not see your ethnicity in pop culture while growing up. The main influence of hispanic culture when I was younger would have been Dora the Explorer. (I mean she is a bad ass so its cool) I also grew up in a blue collar town that is a majority white ft the occasional Indian or Asian family. When my parents moved there, my dad was the only mexican in the entire town, and by default I became one of the only Mexicans to go to school there. Although I am very light skinned and for most it’s hard to tell that I’m hispanic, growing up without any hispanic influence changed how I saw my ethnicity. My dad moved out when I was very young and so really the only times I saw people like myself was through Dora. Once I passed the age of 5, I had nothing. I have grown up believing that everything will be harder because I’m hispanic. Even my dad will tell me that he’s happy I’m light skinned so I have the choice to tell people that I’m Mexican. Although I agree, it’s horrible to need to worry about those things. Other than that I feel I have to pave my own path in this world, due to the lack of representation.

Misconceptions: 

Now onto America and her future. Trump has been elected and is now in office and I can’t tell you how mortified I am. He has brought forth a new hatred towards people of all sorts of races, one of them of course being Mexicans. I have grown up hearing kids and adults alike make jokes about how all Mexicans are dangerous gang members who smuggle drugs across the boarder. It makes me want to sob just thinking about this. My dad’s side of the family, yes they came here illegally (although yes they are legal now), looking for a better life. One away from abuse and poverty. My grandmother and her kids came here to start a new life. And that’s exactly what they did. Although they struggled immensely throughout my fathers adolescent years, none of my family resined to violence or illegal actions. They worked hard. Now my aunt is a Spanish teacher and my dad is starting his own company. Beyond that, I, as the first generation to be born in the US, have, not to brag, exceeded all expectations for Mexican’s according to most. I am currently a full time student studying in a fairly prestigious university in London.(not just on study abroad, Im here for 4 years) What I don’t understand is how people judge Mexican’s so harshly when many of us go on to be successful. Despite what Trump thinks, not all Mexican’s are bad, in fact many come here and do amazing things. 

Trump building this “wall” breaks my heart. Yes, it isn’t good to sneak into the US illegally but most of these people are looking for a better life just as my family was. They want to escape the danger and poverty that is currently flooding that country. If it was easy to get Visas, do you really think they would be doing it illegally? 

Please please please understand that a) Hispanic and Latino people can be smart, clever and creative b) Most Mexicans don’t come here with cocaine up their butts and c) That we having feelings too, be kind.

Yes, I’m Mexican. Yes, I’m the daughter of a once Illegal immigrant. Yes, I’m damn proud of who I am and who I will become.

If you’re reading this and are hispanic or latino, post something awesome that you’ve done and tag me in it. If there is no one out there for us to look up to, than lets look up to each other. Let’s spread that sexy loud (Cleanly?) love.

- Isabella Pesina

Psych 2: Lassie Come Home Review

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Psych: The Movie, when it was released in 2017, was clearly a love letter for the avid Psych-Os missing fake psychic Shawn Spencer (James Roday), his platonic life partner Burton Guster (Dulé Hill), and the rest of the Santa Barbara Police Department after the series wrapped in 2014. From a David Bowie-loving villain to a #TeamGrimmie T-shirt, it was the best kind of fan service. Psych 2: Lassie Come Home, then, is undoubtedly a love letter from the cast and crew of Psych to one of their own: actor Timothy Omundson and his grouchy yet heroic alter ego, detective Carlton Lassiter, both undergoing recovery for a stroke. Psych 2, which premieres July 15 on Peacock, is a surprisingly poignant example of art imitating life while still ushering a crew of beloved characters through personal and professional life changes.

Because of the timing of Omundson’s stroke prior to shooting the first movie, Roday and series creator Steve Franks quickly rewrote that script to build in reasons for Lassiter’s absence: transplanting the mystery from Santa Barbara to San Francisco, and bringing in Lassiter for a late-stage pep talk for his former partner Juliet O’Hara (Maggie Lawson). The scene was staged in such a way as to not necessarily acknowledge that anything had changed in the character’s life. But three years later, with Omundson still relearning how to walk, the writers (Franks, Roday, and Andy Berman) leaned in to the actor’s real-life situation and constructed an entire Hitchcockian whodunnit around his recovery:

Someone shot Lassie! Recuperating in Santa Barbara, the usually sharp detective, his senses dulled by pain and meds, nonetheless notices a series of strange happenings in and around his recovery clinic: catatonic patients walking the halls, bleeding strangers lurking on the grounds at night… possibly even ghosts. With potentially supernatural happenings afoot, clearly this is a case for a fake psychic and his many-nicknamed-associate. And when it comes to Lassie, Shawn and Gus are more than happy to return to their old stomping grounds, slurp some Jamba Juice, and unravel this eerie case.

But here’s the rub: What if it’s all in Lassie’s head?

In addition to meeting Omundson where he’s at, the Hitchcockian plot smartly turns the series’ original premise on its ear: Instead of Shawn being the one that people struggle between debunking and believing—no one moreso than Lassiter—now it’s Lassie as the unreliable narrator. While Shawn’s lies ballooned to so precarious a point that he could lose all credibility if punctured, Lassiter arguably has more to lose should his peers decide that he’s “crazy”: Not only could be he forcibly retired from his job, but he’d lose the respect of the police department and (he believes) wife Marlowe (Kristy Swanson) and their daughter Lily.

You can hear the genuine warmth and affection that everyone involved has for Omundson. In the scene when Juliet tells Lassiter, “You are the strongest person I know, and I am watching you get stronger every single day, and I love you, and I don’t know what I would do without you,” it’s also clearly Maggie Lawson talking to Omundson, and probably even also the series engaging its fans, especially now.

These highly emotional stakes ground a mystery that often veers into the ludicrous, even for Psych. There are hospital hijinks involving dismembered hands and foot tickling; another bonkers Mary Lightly (Jimmi Simpson) hallucination that outdoes its Psych: The Movie predecessor; a shootout at a Viking-themed ice bar; and exhaustive travel back-and-forth between Santa Barbara and San Francisco. At the hospital, Richard Schiff plays a suspiciously uptight doctor, while Sarah Chalke is a beam of sunshine as basically a more put-together version of Elliot from Scrubs, with a smile for Lassiter and an eye for Gus.

The one major downside of the Psych movies is that they lack the tight structure of a 42-minute TV case. There’s still all the same crime-solving plot beats, but you trade that briskness for a bevy of witty references, as if the characters and the stars would rather spend ninety minutes catching up on the last three years of pop culture. To be fair, they are great; where else would you see The Force Awakens and This Is Us get equal play? (And they’re both stories where fathers come to tragic ends! It all fits.) But the joke-spackling can’t entirely disguise the holes in the narrative.

Shawn and Gus’ penchant for puerile humor also grates a bit in this installment, especially when one of the movie’s central themes is manning up and getting more serious. The aforementioned foot-tickling scene felt out of place even for these two. When it’s just the two of them being handsy and inappropriate, it’s comedy gold; when they bring in a play partner, it just gets uncomfortable.

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But it’s not all rehashing old bits, as Shawn muses to Gus in an especially meta moment; Psych 2 also offers small but pivotal moments of growth for the major characters. One of the movie’s biggest treats is watching Jules be the one to sneak around Shawn’s back investigating the identity of Lassiter’s shooter, instead of their usual status quo in which she’s the straight man to his risk-taker. Even more fun is that she gets a temporary partner in Gus’ girlfriend Selene (Jazmyn Simon), who initially races down to SoCal to investigate Gus’ potential love interest but winds up joining the hunt for a missing bullet and a shadowy motive.

Even the supporting cast who get only a few scenes are standouts, from Chief Karen Vick (Kirsten Nelson) staring down a life-changing job interview to Woody (Kurt Fuller) in a disguise that’s just this side of offensive to Henry Spencer (Corbin Bernsen) continuing his absurd Boomer hipster ways while also managing to have an actually heartfelt conversation with Shawn about fatherhood.

Absent fathers loom over Lassie Come Home, from Shawn in a sitcom-y plot involving a pregnancy test to Carlton’s meds-induced hallucinations of the Lassiter family patriarch (Joel McHale), a ghostly manifestation of the detective’s self-censure about manliness and what recovery looks like. Psych 2 never sugarcoats Lassiter’s recovery, adeptly balancing hope and pessimism, hero worship and regret.

The mystery resolves in an uneven fashion, with a few too many red herrings and new characters and settings that you could tell it was fun to set up, if nothing else. But let’s be real, we weren’t here for the who or why of Lassiter getting shot; the movie’s heart is in what he does next. That resolution is handled so thoughtfully, in a simple moment that resonates for both Lassiter and Omundson, and every (not-a-dry) eye watching.

Psych had already proven with its first movie that it could grow and change with its fanbase, but this latest installment commits to putting each character on a new path, even if it’s just taking one step. Here’s hoping we’ll get to keep revisiting Shawn and Gus à la the BBC’s Sherlock and Watson every few years—for a new mystery, sure, but really just because everyone feels like family.

Psych 2: Lassie Come Home premieres July 15 on Peacock.

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James Roday on 'A Million Little Things' and Making Another 'Psych' Movie

From show creator DJ Nash, the ABC series A Million Little Things follows a group of friends who initially bonded under unusual circumstances, but who stayed tight over the years since. After one of them dies unexpectedly, it leads the others to re-evaluate their careers and relationships, as they each wonder if they’re where they should and need to be. The series stars David Giuntoli, James Roday, Romany Malco, Allison Miller, Christina Moses, Christina Ochoa, Grace Park, Stephanie Szostak, Lizzy Greene and Ron Livingston.

During this 1-on-1 phone interview with Collider, actor James Roday talked about how he came to A Million Little Things, the appeal of this character, whether he personally relates more to Gary Mendez or Shawn Spencer (from his previous TV series Psych), treating the issue of suicide truthfully and with respect, the chemistry he has with this cast, whether it’s harder to be funny in a comedy or a drama, researching what it’s like for a man to have breast cancer, and whether he’d ever direct an episode of this show. He also talked about the plans to definitely make another Psych movie, how humbling the staying power of that series has been, and directing Treehouse, which is one of the 12 movies that’s a part of the Blumhouse horror series Into the Dark, being released once a month on Hulu.

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Collider : After so many years of talking to you about Psych, I have to admit that it’s a little weird to be talking to you about another show, but still good to talk to you, nonetheless.

JAMES RODAY:  It’s weird the way that works sometimes.

And since we’ve also spoken about our mutual love of Twin Peaks before, do you think Gary is a fan of Twin Peaks, or do you think he’s never even seen an episode?

RODAY:  Do you know what? I think Gary has heard of Twin Peaks. He probably vaguely remembers that it was a show, at some point, but I don’t know that Gary was rushing home to watch Twin Peaks, as a 7th grader.

How did this show and role come your way? Were you just reading pilot scripts, or was it specifically this one?

RODAY:  It was specifically this one. I was not reading pilot scripts. It was quite the opposite, actually, as I was focused almost exclusively on directing. My peeps, my team, my gents called and said, “Look, there’s one script that you have to read.” When they call and say that, it’s an easy decision because, the truth is, it doesn’t take that long to read a script, and if they’re that excited about it, it actually means that they’re curating the material and are only sending me something that they think is special. So, when those calls happen, you usually get pumped because you’re like, “Let me see what you’re so excited about.” Psych actually happened very similarly. In that way, there’s some symmetry. So, I read it, and I totally got it. I got it in terms of what the show is, and what the responsibility and obligations would be, but more specifically, I got it because I personally have been touched by just about every issue that we’re dealing with. It really resonated. We just recently got through a breast cancer scare with one of my very best friends, about a year and a half ago. I just really felt like, “Hey, if you’re gonna call yourself an actor still, then these are exactly the kinds of things that you have to do.” And once I sat down across from (show creator) DJ [Nash] and talked about what his approach to the show was gonna be and what was important to him, it became clear that, at the very least, I would be doing a pilot called A Million Little Things.

I really appreciated that the series also had a PSA about suicide. It’s really important that people know there are people out there who want to and can help.

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RODAY:  We want to treat that issue respectfully, truthfully and authentically because of the fact that it is so ever present in our lives right now and it’s becoming something of an epidemic. It’s a really fine line that you have to be aware of. When you’re trying to craft a narrative and a television show around an issue like suicide, you can very easily fall into a lot of traps. I think the good news for us is that we we’re able to identify what those traps were, based on some other shows that have tried to do this, and say, “Okay, we can’t do that. That’s not right. That doesn’t feel real.” There is a pretty big checklist of don’ts, when it comes to how to deal with this. We’ve been working with so many consultants, and talking to so many survivors and people that have dealt with it firsthand that, collectively, we’ve got a pretty good handle on what not to do, moving forward. For anybody who’s concerned that this is a show that is somehow going to romanticize suicide, or glorify it in some way, or trivialize it in some way, or try to tell you that there’s a reason for it, we’re not doing any of those things.

Was Gary the only character that you’d thought about or talked about playing, or had you looked at all of the characters and felt most drawn to him??

RODAY:  It was 100% Gary for me. The only thing that I knew, going in, was that Rome was African-American, so that wasn’t going to work. Gary spoke to me, so that was the direction that I went in.

Do you find that you personally relate more to Gary or Shawn (from Psych), or a combination of the two of them?

RODAY:  I certainly feel like I relate more to Gary than I ever did to Shawn, and I think the reason for that is that I am the right age for this show. It’s a major wake-up call for any of us that are tiptoeing around that half-way mark, at the half-time of life, and are look in the mirror going, “Is this what I should be doing? Are these the people that I should be doing it with? How am I treating them? How am I treating myself? Am I living my best life?” All of those things that you don’t really care about in your 20s, and you’ve only begun to think about in your 30s, really become a daily part of the process once you hit 40, and that’s what this show is to me. That’s what it was when I read it. That’s what I felt when I read it. We’re all dealing, either directly or indirectly, with most of these issues that are in the show. It hit the middle of the target for me, as opposed to a role like Shawn, which was just more fun than you could ever shake a stick at, but I don’t know who can actually relate to being Peter Pan because you just can’t live like that.

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