What’s the difference between the mentalist, pysch, monk?

Psych and Monk are both awesome.

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the difference between the mentalist, pysch, monk?

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I am actually watching an episode of Pysch right now. I basically have it continuous rewatch state to put on when I don’t feel like watching something else.

The Mentalist takes itself the most seriously - Psych the least.

Monk is about human frailty...Psych is the opposite, full of bravado.

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Psych - Elder Millennial or younger GenX age range. Lazy and never really grew up. Lies about being psychic so he can start a detective agency

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While all this is true, I would likely describe Psych as a best buddies, father son, circle of friends, relationship comedy-drama with more focus on the comedy part with witty referenced based humor and a solid charming cast wrapped in mostly murder of the week episodes. Although there are solid recurring storylines that are awesome.

Generally light hearted and pokes fun at many things including itself.

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While all this is true, I would likely describe Psych as a best buddies, father son, circle of friends, relationship comedy-drama with more focus on the comedy part with witty referenced based humor and a solid charming cast wrapped in mostly murder of the week episodes. Although there are solid recurring storylines that are awesome.

Generally light hearted and pokes fun at many things including itself.

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That's fair

I guess another way to put it would be

Psych - Comedy Centric with focus on relationships between friends and family with some drama mixed in

Monk - 50/50 Mix between Comedy and Drama with focus on navigating the world with mental health issue

Mentalist - Drama heavy light on the Comedy with focus on a running revenge story.

Yep, I like that and think it’s a good way of putting it.

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Aren’t they basically the same concept? Eccentric, Sherlock Holmes-like powers of deduction from a guy who is a police consultant who has a partner that doesn’t quite get them who represents the general population?

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The Mentalist is a procedural cop show with a slightly different flavor than your standard cop shows, kind of like Bones, or as you mentioned, Castle. Now that I think about it, I guess there's an entire sub-genre of Cop Consultant dramas.

The other 2 don't fit your comparison at all. It would be like comparing Scrubs to Grey's Anatomy.

Monk is a comedic version of a procedural cop show. While Monk is brilliant at solving crimes, you watch to see a neurotic germaphobe comically struggle with having to operate in the real world.

Psych is just one of the GOAT comfort shows. An ensemble cast with perfect comedic chemistry dropping pop culture references and guest star appearances to hit GenXers with the perfect amount of nostalgia. Procedural cop show is just the setting. It is more closely related to Chuck than the Mentalist, who clearly stole the idea of Psych but said "what if we made this an actual cop show?"

All 3 shows are good BTW, you just would get different things from watching them.

Almost has Letterkenny or Community vibes at times with a lot of Scrubs energy.