Psych (TV series)

This TV series has been on for 3 or 4 seasons now.

Originally I liked it - for the character of the police officer, Lassiter.

But more and more it's just getting on my nerves.

The premise of the series is simply - de-evolved.

James Rodriguez plays a character named Shaun Spencer, who's extremely intelligent with a photographic memory. His father, a police officer, raised him to be a police officer, but he rebelled when he was 20 or so and drifted off into a series of low level jobs, before returning back to California, getting involved in a kidnapping case and having to prove who did it to remove himself from suspicion, because he had "known to much" about the case.

Each episode after that, the police are trying to do their job, when Shaun and his partner Gus show up. The police tell Shaun to go away, he never does. In the real world, he'd be thrown in jail. In the TV series, he always turns out to be right, which makes one wonder, why do the cops always try to keep him from investigating, when he's always right? (Perhaps they should do a sequel...do all his cases get thrown out at trial because of the way he found evidence and so on?)

In any event, the Shaun Spencer character just annoys the hell out of me. He's very much an exhibitionist, everything is about him. He barges into meeting rooms and starts talking, he ignores orders from the cops, etc. etc.

What does this teach kids in real life? That if your'e a guy you can act outrageously and get away with it? That authority is meant to be defied every single time? That nothign bad will happen to you if you talk back to cops (wrong), teachers (well, there, of course, kids can do anything they want to teachers without fear of punishment) and parents, likewise.