Psych: B

USA has finally turned into a full-blown, quality cable programming network. With 4 original series on it's slate, all of which have been well-recieved, the network can join the ranks that consist of the likes of HBO, Showtime, TNT, etc. They're latest offering may sound a bit familiar: brilliant "detective" solves crimes as work for his private agency. No this isn't "Monk", and it doesn't feature a masterful performance from Emmy-winner Tony Shaloub. Instead we get the playful, overly theatrical, and delightful performance from Micheal Roday as a man-boy raised to be impossiblly observational and then grow up and be a detective. When he grew up he really didn't, the ultimate in rebellion, instead he cruises around calling in anonymous tips to the Police. Eventually he gets dragged into a kidnapping agency as a "psychic" and afterwords opens a private agency with his reluctant best friend Gus (Dule Hill), called "Psych". Where "The 4400", "The Dead Zone", or "Monk" had shots of drama in their procedural/comedy/sitcom set-ups like rum in your water this show has nothing. I'm hoping they may build up the estranged father (played expertly by Corben Bensen)-son relationship to emotionally poignant proportions but until then this show is pure comedy, delightful but empty. I hope it can ground itself soon.