REVIEW: Mike Tyson Mysteries “The Farmer’s Daughter”

We got double the run time, for double the quality.

Season finales are a television show’s final chance to leave a good impression for the year. No matter how good or how bad, the other how-many episodes of the season are, the viewers remember how the season ends. A good example of this is the ending of season 2 of Rick and Morty. In case you are reading this review and haven’t watched the season 2 finale of Rick and Morty, or the show at all, I won’t spoil how it left off. It grabbed the viewers attention and even pokes fun at the fact that the viewers will have to wait an unknown amount of time.

The finale of Mike Tyson Mysteries did not leave on a cliff-hanger but it still caught my attention for being a great episode. Instead of the typical 15 minute time slot, to which approximately 10-11 minutes are the show, the finale had a 30 minute time slot, in which the show ran about 21 of them. On a meta introduction, Mike himself, is on the couch preparing to watch his own show. Tyson is in a sheer state of joy as the theme song plays, next to his agent Deezy, who has shown up on a few occasions in the series. The sight of the tough heavyweight champion in such an excited and almost childish trance, is something I never expected to see, but am glad I did.

The plot flowed accordingly for an episode of double the length. It didn’t feel much longer than usual, even though it was, which is a good thing. If it would have dragged on, then the score would have been docked. A misunderstanding Pigeon is actually eager to solve the mystery and he loses motivation as soon as it is revealed that he won’t be getting a young babe into porn. But he still gets what he crazes when he actually sleeps with the cliched “farmer’s daughter.” When the van breaks down, the hick town with one restaurant and no hotels is their temporary sanctuary.Pigeon gets himself into an unfortunate situation with the farmer’s daughter and farm livestock saves the day.

It held its weight for a half-hour and that’s all I asked for. Ending the season on a high note, not the highest, but high nonetheless, “The Farmer’s Daughter” shows that extended quarter-hour shows can work.

On a side note, it seems appropriate to honor the recently fallen, particularly for the review of this show: RIP Muhammad Ali.