Review: Mike Tyson Mysteries “The Yung and the Restless; A Mystery in Little Italy”

 

 

Overview (Spoilers Below)

Yung Hee finds herself dissatisfied with the team and wishing for more substance to her life. She’s not even the vice-president of the Mystery Team like her dad promised, she’s actually only the secretary, “because she’s a girl.” Fed up with the arbitrary hierarchy and the endless array of nonsense mysteries, Yung decides to quit and applies for a job at the mall.

Right before her interview, the team accepts a case to help a woman find her dementia-riddled husband. But when Yung realizes the woman’s lost companion is actually Perry the Parrot, she retreats to the mall and locks down that job. Unfortunately, the job sucks, and she’s relegated to folding sweaters all day at the mercy of a bitchy manager. Marquess tries to convince her to return to the team but is distracted by some dude shooting him dick pics every five minutes.

After her first, terrible day Yung notices the Mystery Mobile still parked outside the old lady’s house. It turns out the gang found the bird all by themselves. And then the bird spoke, confessing to murder on behalf of the old lady. To protect her team, Yung busts in and fights the old lady, killing her in the process.

 

In the next episode, Mike is on a cooking competition and needs to make a functional dish with baby octopuses, plantains, salted kippers, and cream of mushroom soup. He fails miserably, bleeding all over the raw ingredients.

After getting kicked off the show, Mike needs to solve a mystery in NYC to recoup his losses. The gang begrudgingly comes along. The gig is for a mobster who wants them to hunt down his son, who stole 32 million dollars from his illegal mafia-related business. The mobster makes it very clear that he is going to murder his son once the team finds him.

Yung won’t let her father be an accessory to murder. Luckily—since Mike seldom listens to his daughter—the mob boss’s son buys everyone’s silence by making a more-than generous donation to the “Mike Tyson Foundation.”

Deezy is pumped to hear about this windfall before he accidentally crashes into the mobster’s favorite Italian restaurant, Domino’s Pizza. Deezy is hurt real bad, although he doesn’t quite die. But we can always hope, right?

 

Our Take

The first episode was weighed down with semantics. Sometimes beating around the bush can work for a scripted comedy but a lot of times it comes off as tedious. This was an example of the latter. A deaf old lady and arguments over what makes a proper “buttered egg,” didn’t do much to enhance Yung’s story. The struggle itself was interesting and it was refreshing to see a more motivated side of Yung—and all that without her pink tracksuit.

Pigeon didn’t add much in either episode. You would think he’d have a lot to say to another bird. However, that might be species profiling, so I’ll say nothing more on the subject. In the second episode, I believe he only said one line, but at least he wished for Deezy’s death which is always a plus.

Mike needs to listen more, right? Yung has some great ideas—vice-president level great—and yet they never register with the champ. Also, Marquess spins a good yarn, but Mike never wants to hear from him and hurls abuse at the poor, dead nobleman. Then again, if Mike were to listen more often, some of the episodes might only last for two or three minutes. So… never mind.

Mike Tyson Mysteries is going to be on hiatus for the next few weeks—or six to eighteen months. After ten episodes, the season has been running smoothly and we’re getting what is expected from the program. There haven’t been too many groan-worthy moments, but when they happened, they were loud and unapologetic about it. Love them or hate them, the team has earned the back half of their season whenever it may air.