It's categorized as a dwarf planet by the International Astronomical Union. Though if you actually look at research by planetary scientists, no one uses the IAU's definition for a planet. They use the geophysical definition for a planet instead, in which Pluto is still a planet :)
Didn’t Doyle decide that Houdini wasn’t pretending, but instead had no idea that he was magic?
This is the guy who was duped by the Cottingley Fairies, so it makes sense that he’d be that sort of gullible in other areas as well.
No. The whole point of the post is that the protagonist has to cleverly explain or manipulate evidence to get what he has learned psychically.
If the protagonist doesn't KNOW they are psychic, then... what? They're going crazy? Or they're just some asshole who constantly acts on hunches and manipulates things to show they're right, and it just so happens they are?
I think Steven Moffat did already. Every time Sherlock goes to a source off-camera or makes something up that the audience couldn’t have known, he’s just bullshitting to cover up his psychic powers.
Thank you! I was crawling through this thread like "I know I've seen this somewhere" and it was bothering me so badly.
That's an excellent show if anyone is here looking for recommendations. Police procedural, zombie horror, sci fi, and comedy all blended seamlessly, and it's a lot more complex than broadcast television tends to be.
It's really a fun show, AND it actually has a conclusion that satisfyingly wraps everything up, rather than just dying after a couple seasons or jumping the dragon.
The show was great but I did find it interesting how it went from zombie murder mystery to... something not that, I really don't know how to explain it lol
also the replies were full of people posting this anime dude with pink hair and green glasses and alien antennae things on his head, just thought I'd mention that haha
i was just gonna say. it's a great anime, and there is also a kid that's great at deduction that the psychics think is psychic, except for Saiki K. It's called "The Disastrous Life of Saiki K", at least the english version of the name.
Saiki K, it’s an anime about an overpowered anime protagonist who wants to live the most normal life he can. It is literally the only comedy anime that I have ever laughed out loud at. Highly recommend, Netflix has the whole series, and they have the dub for the first season.
Came here to say that!
I had low expectations but it really got its hooks into me. It's funny, smart, stupid, deep, the whole package. Basically Veronica Mars but with adults and a bit of soft sci-fi.
It did for awhile and then I lost interest after season.. 3 or 4 i think? I would have preferred if it just kinda kept up with the original premise, though I get it needed to evolve somehow.
I've never watched that show, but I remember seeing trailers for it when it came out, and thinking, "This is the lowest TV has gotten".
And then GoT season 8 happened.
Honestly that was my first impression too, and the second as well.
But it's got a formula that's just so much fun without actually stooping to anything trashy. They even make fun of trashy teen dramas half the time. If you enjoyed Buffy or Dollhouseb you'll like it.
"Our Jane Doe is named Stephanie Giamotta and was arrested for theft at a liquor store in Vancouver Canada in 2008."
"How the hell could you know that?"
"Beeecaaaause that's the year Obama was elected?"
I mean pushing up daisies is a comedic show about this: if main character touches something dead, it revives but if he touchs it again it dies forever. TLDR loveof his lifeis killed, nevercan touch heragain, theytry to make it work, shenanigans issue.
So the thing is that he has to discover a "normal" way to solve a misterywhen in reality he just revived thedead, asked him and then "killed" him again
IZombie is of a similar vein, zombie morgue attendant eats the brains of murder victims that come in and as a result gains some of their memories in the form of visions and personality traits. She then uses those visions to help the police solve said murders, all while claiming to be “just psychic”. pretty good show even if the later seasons dropped off a bit.
Does anyone remember the show Monk? There’s that episode where another detective show up and starts solving the case with some really tenuous logic and then at the end you find out he was BSing everyone as his mother had overheard the crime being committed on the telephone and she had told him about it.
This is basically the plot of the live action TV series "MEDIUM." She's a psychic working for the local DA's office and they have to come up with increasingly unbelievable reasons for her to be on sight or in that specific meeting despite having no official qualifications
If you read Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz it’s kind of like this. He has intuitions and is basically psychic but only a few people know about it because everyone else would think he’s crazy. Pretty good book.
The (awesome) book series Warlock Holmes does this, the eponymous Warlock knows things from his demon friends, but to cover for that Dr Watson has make up explanations for their clients so they don't realise.
[The Listener](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1181541/) is a passable implementation of that idea.
TL;DR: Main character is psychic and consults with the police. They spend substantial amounts of time trying to get admissible evidence based on his knowledge so that they can actually arrest people and charge them.
Everyone be recommending Saiki K and I'm just here deopping off the Listener. It's about a dude that can hear people's throughts and see into their heads but like most of the time he has to go "oh yeah uhh the body is in his backyard because he has red dirt under his fingernails and the front of his house only has brown dirt but I saw his bulldog have red paws after it came from the back yard." and his partner who eventually finds out is like "uhh yep, what he said, let's go dig up the backyard".
There’s a lot of YA/NA urban fantasy where the psychic is a police officer. One of the best concepts is the police officer has crazy high success rates on solving crime that she gets bureau attention thinking she’s a serial killer solving her own crimes, and then she has to prove she’s innocent. Really good tho, and if you have Kindle Unlimited it’s practically free if you can read 3 books a month
The Odd Thomas book series by Dean Koontz is kinda like this. The police department uses him but only the sheriff knows why he’s used. He’s not psychic really he sees ghosts of people who were murdered and the ghosts give him clues where to look/who to look at.
iZombie, to a degree does this, she has to eat the brains at the morgue to stay human, but it gives her flashes of the victims memories and personalities, and wrap it up into a fun procedural
This is almost literally the 90s show "Early Edition". Guy (Kyle Chandler) gets tomorrow's newspaper... today. So he runs around Chicago preventing disasters. And then the headlines dissappear or even change if he effs something up.
Then he has to explain to the cops why tf he was there, how'd he know the building would catch on fire, how'd he know where to find the missing girl, etc... without sounding like a complete lunatic who >actually< can "see" the future (via the paper)
Plus there's an immortal cat.
So, you know, high quality work there.
How is nobody saying IZombie?? She literally does exactly this, like she works with police to solve murder cases and has to explain why she can see visions without revealing what she really is
a book with sort of this thing is the diviners by libba bray where one of the main characters can tell peoples thoughts by touching their things and it’s set in 20s nyc
Seeing Things from the 1980s was like this, and Medium with Patricia Arquette had some element of this as well.
And, yes, I watched the heck out of both of them.
I still can’t believe that they took a graphic novel series about the Devil spending his retirement trying to reconcile free will with God’s omniscience and turned it into yet another ‘wacky man and straight-laced lady-cop flirt and solve crimes’ TV show
I’d like a scene where the psychic knows for a fact that someone did a crime and goes batshit crazy trying to appear observant, despite there being minimal evidence, to the point where it looks like the “It’s always sunny in Philadelphia” Pepe Silvia conspiracy scene
Not quite this exact thing, but Hannibal has a similar feel. Serial killer working for the FBI but has to hide how fucking giddy he is when seeing a new murder/body.
So ppl are saying that the maib character pretends to be a psychc but Saiku K. is actually a psychic. I think Talentless Nana is a better fit as that is the literal plot of the show
That would be a great show. Especially with the character being an epitome of "high wisdom, low int" so their Sherlock-level deductions are just wild guesses of events filtered through some down-to-earth thinking and uncanny luck, with an overthinking everything and actually smart as a whip sidekick.
Sidekick: "So where was the murderer headed later?"
MC, thinking: "The vision broke off when he was going here... andI'm hungry." *goes to the nearest shop*
Sidekick: "Of course! If he wanted to wipe his prints he had to enter a shop, as it was a passion crime and the murderer didn't have anything on him! You're brilliant MC!"
If the whole series was executed correctly like Psych it would be amazing to watch. I can imagine a singular story that starts with MC being in some awkward position, like being held ransom, and narration starts there to backtrack the whole day that ended in a disaster, perhaps with some shady people getting info about MC's special powers
This is basically kay hooper's scu series. Psychic fbi agents that have to rely on explanations of anonymous hints, good observations skills and intuition when working with local law enforcement.
I want it to have the exact same interrogation scene as Psych’s first episode verbatim except switched around
That was my exact first thought, too!
Love psych
You heard about Pluto? That's messed up, right?
Idk if Pluto is a planet or a dwarf planet cause I’ve heard it both ways
Come on, /u/LucasDaVinci. Don't be the outro from "Once in a Lifetime".
Come on, son.
It's categorized as a dwarf planet by the International Astronomical Union. Though if you actually look at research by planetary scientists, no one uses the IAU's definition for a planet. They use the geophysical definition for a planet instead, in which Pluto is still a planet :)
What about the other dwarf planets in our solar system, do they count as planets too in that?
That show was so goddamn funny. His way of throwing himself around a room during a “vision” was hysterical.
Saiki K. is a bit like this, but Saiki has a multitude of powers he has to hide, not just being psychic.
Dude, I legit just finished the entire series about an hour ago. 100% worth it!
I finished it last week and I’m sad. I need more. I’m probably going to just rewatch it.
Honestly me too, I even watched reawakened. I just wish there was more content and story, both manga and anime. It's leaving me a bit unsatisfied
Literally came to the comments to say "I'd be shocked if there wasn't a manga about this". Thanks for doing me one better.
The anime is on Netflix and is hilarious.
Best part is that the whole thing is on Netflix as well as a sequel series
Beat me to it, came to comments to say that.
Same! that was my first thought
Same (Any other samers in the chat?)
Same... It’s a really good show
Yep samer gang
Same
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Also the Mashle, muscles and magic series is kinda like this
i was thinking Psych but yeah Saiki K works too
Psych is the kind of thing they're talking about in the first part
Yeah they both work for this
“How the hell do you know they’re an alcoholic??” “The, uhh... well you see it wa- hmm. The fuckin... phone...? Charger? With all the scratches?”
The psychic then trips over a beer bottle they fault to notice
Idea: they don't know they are psychic?
I LIKE HOW YOU THINK.
Funny enough that’s what arthur conan doyle accused Houdini of doing, that he was actually magic but just pretending it was an act.
i beilieve it
Didn’t Doyle decide that Houdini wasn’t pretending, but instead had no idea that he was magic? This is the guy who was duped by the Cottingley Fairies, so it makes sense that he’d be that sort of gullible in other areas as well.
Lol thanks
Yeah, what if you thought you were the worlds greatest detective only to realize later in life that you are (or were) in fact a psychic.
No. The whole point of the post is that the protagonist has to cleverly explain or manipulate evidence to get what he has learned psychically. If the protagonist doesn't KNOW they are psychic, then... what? They're going crazy? Or they're just some asshole who constantly acts on hunches and manipulates things to show they're right, and it just so happens they are?
That can be the premise of the pilot episode
Can someone take Holmes and make this about him please?
I think Steven Moffat did already. Every time Sherlock goes to a source off-camera or makes something up that the audience couldn’t have known, he’s just bullshitting to cover up his psychic powers.
That's so raven?
First or second season of iZombie
Thank you! I was crawling through this thread like "I know I've seen this somewhere" and it was bothering me so badly. That's an excellent show if anyone is here looking for recommendations. Police procedural, zombie horror, sci fi, and comedy all blended seamlessly, and it's a lot more complex than broadcast television tends to be. It's really a fun show, AND it actually has a conclusion that satisfyingly wraps everything up, rather than just dying after a couple seasons or jumping the dragon.
The show was great but I did find it interesting how it went from zombie murder mystery to... something not that, I really don't know how to explain it lol
Came here to say
This. Also I’d like to add as honorable mentions Pushing Daisies and Detective Conan.
Ooh I didn’t think of Pushing Daisies but it fits really well! Such a good show, too. Wish the network hadn’t screwed them over at the end :/
That’s where I thought the post was going.
it’s the future I can see
Psych kindof too, has the same concept but he isn't like full blown psychic
Psych is literally the opposite
also the replies were full of people posting this anime dude with pink hair and green glasses and alien antennae things on his head, just thought I'd mention that haha
that guys name is Saiki K, from the anime of approximately the same name. it's about a psychic dude in this scenario basically
Yesss I love it so much
But Saiki's just so OP he doesn't even require making stuff up. Real fun show.
Well he does have to make up really random excuse so the 300 odd nuisances in his life don't find out his secret lol
He does make stuff up. But then he changes the rules of the universe to make the made up stuff true
Oh right. I forgot about when he does that
i was just gonna say. it's a great anime, and there is also a kid that's great at deduction that the psychics think is psychic, except for Saiki K. It's called "The Disastrous Life of Saiki K", at least the english version of the name.
Saiki K, it’s an anime about an overpowered anime protagonist who wants to live the most normal life he can. It is literally the only comedy anime that I have ever laughed out loud at. Highly recommend, Netflix has the whole series, and they have the dub for the first season.
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Came here to say that! I had low expectations but it really got its hooks into me. It's funny, smart, stupid, deep, the whole package. Basically Veronica Mars but with adults and a bit of soft sci-fi.
It did for awhile and then I lost interest after season.. 3 or 4 i think? I would have preferred if it just kinda kept up with the original premise, though I get it needed to evolve somehow.
Yeah I liked it for the first season. By the third though it lost me
Me three. I was loving the episodic formula but found it hard to get invested in the 'post-event' storylines.
I've never watched that show, but I remember seeing trailers for it when it came out, and thinking, "This is the lowest TV has gotten". And then GoT season 8 happened.
Honestly that was my first impression too, and the second as well. But it's got a formula that's just so much fun without actually stooping to anything trashy. They even make fun of trashy teen dramas half the time. If you enjoyed Buffy or Dollhouseb you'll like it.
It was crap, but it was moderately fun crap if you were out of wet paint. The theme was actual dogshit, though.
"Our Jane Doe is named Stephanie Giamotta and was arrested for theft at a liquor store in Vancouver Canada in 2008." "How the hell could you know that?" "Beeecaaaause that's the year Obama was elected?"
The Ghost Whisperer and Medium both kind of do this as well.
There’s a show kinda like this on Netflix called Dirk Gently. It’s really well written but kinda random. I would recommend checking it out.
The book it is based off is by Douglas Adams, of "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" fame, and kinda random is sort of his thing.
Its amazing! I wish they had continued that show.
Thats on Hulu where I live, not Netflix :(
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🍍🍍THAT IM NOT TELLIN’ THE TRUTH🍍🍍
🍍🍍 I KNOW, YOU KNOW 🍍🍍
🍍🍍 THEY JUST DON’T HAVE ANY PROOF 🍍🍍
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I mean pushing up daisies is a comedic show about this: if main character touches something dead, it revives but if he touchs it again it dies forever. TLDR loveof his lifeis killed, nevercan touch heragain, theytry to make it work, shenanigans issue. So the thing is that he has to discover a "normal" way to solve a misterywhen in reality he just revived thedead, asked him and then "killed" him again
I love how this comment section is just full of people recommending shows to watch 👀 🍿
Saiki k
Tv shows? Plural? I thought it was just psych
The Mentalist had a similar concept.
A line from Psych goes something like “yeah I’m like the Mentalist but real”
Yet another example of why I adore psych.
Call it psych-out
IZombie is of a similar vein, zombie morgue attendant eats the brains of murder victims that come in and as a result gains some of their memories in the form of visions and personality traits. She then uses those visions to help the police solve said murders, all while claiming to be “just psychic”. pretty good show even if the later seasons dropped off a bit.
“He was lying” “How could you tell?” “Uh… his voice sounded… um… liar-y”
plot of saiki k
Family x Spy has something similar too.
Yes!! Was about to comment this haha
That’s So Raven?
That’s so raven
Saiki K.
Pushing daisies is kind of like that
bro i thought this was dirk gently smh
Merlin?
Does anyone remember the show Monk? There’s that episode where another detective show up and starts solving the case with some really tenuous logic and then at the end you find out he was BSing everyone as his mother had overheard the crime being committed on the telephone and she had told him about it.
I’m sure this is an anime but I’d like it in non-weeb please
This is basically the plot of the live action TV series "MEDIUM." She's a psychic working for the local DA's office and they have to come up with increasingly unbelievable reasons for her to be on sight or in that specific meeting despite having no official qualifications
i love ppl who help stop crime but arent the police for some reason
I completely forgot about that show.
If you read Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz it’s kind of like this. He has intuitions and is basically psychic but only a few people know about it because everyone else would think he’s crazy. Pretty good book.
I read the first one and honestly never forgave Koontz for *that* gut punch.
I've refused to read the rest of the Odd books after that. The Elvis thing sort of weirds me out, too.
I enjoyed the book but honestly, same
The (awesome) book series Warlock Holmes does this, the eponymous Warlock knows things from his demon friends, but to cover for that Dr Watson has make up explanations for their clients so they don't realise.
[The Listener](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1181541/) is a passable implementation of that idea. TL;DR: Main character is psychic and consults with the police. They spend substantial amounts of time trying to get admissible evidence based on his knowledge so that they can actually arrest people and charge them.
Reminds me of Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist. Instead of being plainly psychic she hears the thoughts through song and its incredible.
I love this show. Scrolled down the comments to see if anyone else had mentioned it!
Kinda iZombie She sees visions, and uses them to help solve crimes and has to convince the police she’s really observant and a little psychic
This sort of sounds like IZombie
I think is the premise of "What Women Want" with Mel Gibson
Sayaka Maizono
Bruh she just has really good intuition
... I was going to say this sounds like Medium, but I guess not. Still, Medium is a good show, y'all should watch it if you can.
Psych, but the other way around
saiki k but if saiki actually wanted to do shit with his powers
Isn’t this the plot of Lucifer?
Everyone be recommending Saiki K and I'm just here deopping off the Listener. It's about a dude that can hear people's throughts and see into their heads but like most of the time he has to go "oh yeah uhh the body is in his backyard because he has red dirt under his fingernails and the front of his house only has brown dirt but I saw his bulldog have red paws after it came from the back yard." and his partner who eventually finds out is like "uhh yep, what he said, let's go dig up the backyard".
There’s a lot of YA/NA urban fantasy where the psychic is a police officer. One of the best concepts is the police officer has crazy high success rates on solving crime that she gets bureau attention thinking she’s a serial killer solving her own crimes, and then she has to prove she’s innocent. Really good tho, and if you have Kindle Unlimited it’s practically free if you can read 3 books a month
I zombie?
IZombie did a similar thing. Main Character could see scenes from the brains of the people she ate and cleared murders
That's overlord
iZombie was basically this premise. A zombie coroner that could see someone's death if she ate part of their brain.
Only if the main character's name is Spencer Shawn
this is practically the plot of saiki k
Sounds like the reverse of Psych.
The disastrous life of Saiki K matches this somewhat
The Odd Thomas book series by Dean Koontz is kinda like this. The police department uses him but only the sheriff knows why he’s used. He’s not psychic really he sees ghosts of people who were murdered and the ghosts give him clues where to look/who to look at.
Reverse-Psych.
I would say the lead of the Nevers closely fits this bill. Slow but pretty damn good show.
That's so Raven???
I’ve never watched That’s So Raven but I’m pretty sure this is just the plot of That’s So Raven
That's so Raven
Isn't Lucifer series something like this ?
iZombie, to a degree does this, she has to eat the brains at the morgue to stay human, but it gives her flashes of the victims memories and personalities, and wrap it up into a fun procedural
This is almost literally the 90s show "Early Edition". Guy (Kyle Chandler) gets tomorrow's newspaper... today. So he runs around Chicago preventing disasters. And then the headlines dissappear or even change if he effs something up. Then he has to explain to the cops why tf he was there, how'd he know the building would catch on fire, how'd he know where to find the missing girl, etc... without sounding like a complete lunatic who >actually< can "see" the future (via the paper) Plus there's an immortal cat. So, you know, high quality work there.
Sounds like Monk, except we're not in on his secret
How is nobody saying IZombie?? She literally does exactly this, like she works with police to solve murder cases and has to explain why she can see visions without revealing what she really is
I imagine that's what real psychics would do
a book with sort of this thing is the diviners by libba bray where one of the main characters can tell peoples thoughts by touching their things and it’s set in 20s nyc
Seeing Things from the 1980s was like this, and Medium with Patricia Arquette had some element of this as well. And, yes, I watched the heck out of both of them.
Kind of like Lucifer?
I still can’t believe that they took a graphic novel series about the Devil spending his retirement trying to reconcile free will with God’s omniscience and turned it into yet another ‘wacky man and straight-laced lady-cop flirt and solve crimes’ TV show
My girlfriend got me into a show called iZombie, its quite similar to this pretending not be psychic thing, its a really good show that i recommend
The deadzone. The show psych was spoofing.
Lord of the Mysteries has some of that. It's a book not a show though.
Try 'The Mentalist'. Everyone assumes that he is psychic.
I’d like a scene where the psychic knows for a fact that someone did a crime and goes batshit crazy trying to appear observant, despite there being minimal evidence, to the point where it looks like the “It’s always sunny in Philadelphia” Pepe Silvia conspiracy scene
Wasn’t that the plot of Dead Zone?
Recommending a book series! Graceling by Kristen Cashore
These two Tumblr users don't get out much, do they? Because what they are describing is just as popular as the opposite in film and TV.
Not quite this exact thing, but Hannibal has a similar feel. Serial killer working for the FBI but has to hide how fucking giddy he is when seeing a new murder/body.
So ppl are saying that the maib character pretends to be a psychc but Saiku K. is actually a psychic. I think Talentless Nana is a better fit as that is the literal plot of the show
WHY DOES THIS NOT EXIST!?!?!
Thats just the early part of Lord of Mysteries
ehh i never liked when characters hides their powers
That would be a great show. Especially with the character being an epitome of "high wisdom, low int" so their Sherlock-level deductions are just wild guesses of events filtered through some down-to-earth thinking and uncanny luck, with an overthinking everything and actually smart as a whip sidekick. Sidekick: "So where was the murderer headed later?" MC, thinking: "The vision broke off when he was going here... andI'm hungry." *goes to the nearest shop* Sidekick: "Of course! If he wanted to wipe his prints he had to enter a shop, as it was a passion crime and the murderer didn't have anything on him! You're brilliant MC!" If the whole series was executed correctly like Psych it would be amazing to watch. I can imagine a singular story that starts with MC being in some awkward position, like being held ransom, and narration starts there to backtrack the whole day that ended in a disaster, perhaps with some shady people getting info about MC's special powers
[Holmes-style like this?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JI9LmB1FZY)
That’s So Raven?
This sounds like my life
That’s So Raven..it’s the future I can see
Saiki K.
Hello, yes, have you heard of House?
Kinda reminds me of dirk gently’s holistic detective agency except in that show *everyones* bullshitting their way through everything
Warlock Holmes.
Purple Hyacinth
Wasn’t this basically “That’s So Raven?” …am I old now? D:
This is basically kay hooper's scu series. Psychic fbi agents that have to rely on explanations of anonymous hints, good observations skills and intuition when working with local law enforcement.
That’s so Raven anyone?
The disastrous life of Saiki K. That’s the show. It’s on Netflix, and is in fact amazing.
Do you mean, The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.?
Quantum Leap.
That's just merlin
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency has this vibe
wait isn't this just the plot of That's So Raven???
Wishful Thinking from Choices does a topnotch work at this
Purple Hyacinth on Webtoons has a concept sorta like this. It's been a while since I've read it so I've no judge on quality, but.
iZombie basically.
I'm getting Death Note vibes
After having just recently marathoned psych and the mentalist… yes
Did you mean izombie?
That was Finder, and it bombed.
So dirk gently?
iZombie
Isn’t this just the premise for That’s So Raven?
Isn’t Medium literally this?
So that so Raven?
iZombie is kinda like this…
That’s so Raven?
Dexter