Review: Mike Tyson Mysteries “Love Letters”

Go Bears!

Some Spoilers Below

After a couple aimless conversations about college football and exotic drinks (seriously it takes up about a third of the episode), the team arrives at some old lady’s yard sale to haggle, eventually getting a large desk. Inside, they find love letters written for Victor, the husband of the old lady…but not written by the lady herself. Heartbroken (literally), the woman dies right in front of them.

The team instead goes to the woman who the letters were meant for, Cathy, to deliver the dead man’s last letter. Upon meeting her, Cathy reveals both she and Victor were former KGB agents who defected. Naturally, they hand over his letter to her just to bring closure to the whole thing. Unfortunately, the letter is coated in a poison that kills Cathy in a horribly gruesome manner right in front of her family.

Also, Mike hosts a Hip Hop awards show. Go Bears!

Well, it’s not exactly unexpected for this show at this point, but it sure took a hell of a long time to get to the actual story. Not that I don’t usually like the Seinfeld-ian writing style of having Marquess work off Mike and Pigeon in dialogue, but compared to last week where they just jumped right into things, this kinda felt like padding. Though my dad, who watched this episode with me, did appreciate the shout out to his former college’s team. And the “Yung is mistaken for a boy” gag is getting beaten deader than Marquess.

Also, I can’t help but notice the similarities between this and an episode from Season 2: “Old Man of the Mountain”. Both start with a seemingly mundane task dealing with the elderly (in this case, old love letters, in that case, putting a grandpa in a home), stumbling upon a link to a previous global conflict (in this case, the Cold War and Cathy being a former Russian agent, in that case, World War 2 and the old man being a former Nazi) and ending with horrific deaths (this by poison and that by Yeti). I wouldn’t say this necessarily means things are getting formulaic as this is just a couple time that I can think of, but it does stick out.

Lastly, I think they laid it on a bit thick with how Cathy died (pun definitely intended). Sometimes you can get the same punchline across (and more) with just dropping dead. Worked for the other old lady, at least.

On an unrelated note, Happy 25th Birthday to me!…on Wednesday.