Psych: The Complete Collection [Blu-Ray]

A much-appreciated gift

I don't know what it is about these two guys (James Roday and Dule Hill) but I've got a permanent soft spot in my heart for Gus and Shawn. I was approximately in the same age group of their characters when they were on the air and maybe that is why I found their humor relatable. Even now, though for the most part, I've outgrown some of the overt slapstick-style humor and over the top hijinks, I love this show. If it was any other show, I probably couldn't bear to watch it. Yes, as some reviewers have commented, some of the comedy is silly... But it somehow just feels right coming from these two characters and it's just good fun. I love Dule Hill and James Roday in these roles. I still regard Psych is one of my favorite dramedies of all time. I read the reviews before I purchased this set and I was reluctant to purchase even though it was being offered at a super great price of $43 at the time. That's the cheapest I had ever seen it on Amazon and I really wanted it. That's just a little over 5 bucks per season and I had never seen it cheaper than that. In fact, I had once seen it offered for $199 and as much as I love these guys and this show, I definitely wasn't paying that! But there were so many negative reviews about the quality of the packaging and the quality of the discs themselves. I'm probably about six or seven discs in and I haven't had any problems with skipping or blurriness. (I sure hope I don't start experiencing issues as I go on. If I do, I'll be sure to update my review.) As for the problems that some cited about the quality of the disc case and packaging, I have purchased DVDs of currently popular series like NCIS Los Angeles and Elementary as well as the complete sets of several other shows that are no longer on the air. Some of these have what I consider to be cheaper packaging and more problematic packaging than this. I've had experiences where you have to press that little button that holds the disc in place so hard to release a disc that you're in fear of breaking the disc. I've had instances where the rod that holds the entire library of discs in place just completely became detached from the case and will no longer stay in there firmly. If you open the case too fast, they all go flying out. Trust me, I've had to crawl on my hands and knees and reach under a piece of furniture more than once to retrieve a disc that fell to the floor and rolled away due to this problem. However, I've had no problems with the Psych case. I don't regard it to be that cheap. At least it's no cheaper than any others that I have purchased recently. Overall, I think it's an absolutely great set and I have really enjoyed the opportunity to watch these guys again (along with the rest of the cast). Such great fun! I've even turned on some of the commentary (which is something that I rarely do because it usually bores me to tears) and I have looked at some of the bonus features to get some insight into what the creation of this series was like back then. Pretty interesting. So far (fingers crossed) I am glad that I ignored the negative reviews and made the purchase.

All should know that I worship and adore this show far above most shows (okay all shows and I'm a hard core fan of several popular shows of current and past). I'm still not over the fact that it's ended, and to think I almost missed out on this amazing show.When Pysch first came out and they started running clips/commercials for it on USA I thought it sounded like it would be dumb and corny. Who wanted to watch a show about a fake psychic? Not I. If I was watching that channel I would spend my valuable time on Monk (another classic in my book) and Burn Notice. So come some time during 2009 (season 3) I was looking for something to watch on cable (over 200+ channels and nothing to watch, amirite?) they were having a Psych marathon so I flipped to it just to have something on the tv, background noise. Dude was I wrong! I dropped into the middle of the episode (I even remember which one it was, Any Given Friday Night at 10pm, 9pm Central) and wondered why in the world haven't I been watching this show from the start! It was so funny and well written that I was instantly hooked. I ran across the house to find my mom (who also shared my previous view on it being stupid) to rave how wrong we were about Psych. We watched the next episode in the marathon and laughed like crazy. Needless to say we binged watched like madwomen to catch up before the premiere of season 4 just a couple weeks. We were officially Psych-Os who lived for every episode for then on.After the show ended we understandably had heavy hearts and tears in our eyes after the Psych After Pshow; it really was too soon! So we drowned our sorrow in Psych merch, 2 t-shirts each and matching lanyards. At one point we had basically every episode on the DVR (lol that 99 episode marathon before the 100th Clue themed episode was not good for DVR space), cause anytime is a good time for Psych. You already know I had to have the complete series; so I checked Amazon for weeks waiting to put in my pre-order. I paid almost $23 more than it is priced now and I regret NOTHING!I give this set 5 stars for content, I mean it has everything including the musical and the after show. But technically it should be 4 because honestly the packaging is not ideal. Mainly the green plastic casing (which if dropped would shatter) could use a way to close because you are bound to drop the discs out as I have a couple times. I remedy this by laying it with the opening facing up which ruins aesthetics but hey it works. Also once you take the giant disc sleeve out you'd do best to lay it on a flat surface to not rip anything. All that aside, I love and cherish it and think everyone should give this show a chance and fall in love! So don't be the American adaptation of the British Gus and convert to Psychoism, we have quatro queso dos fritos!