Review: Mike Tyson Mysteries “Let’s Make a Deal; Pilot Error”

 

 

Overview (Spoilers Below)

Deezy signs the gang up for a podcast. Only problem: it records that night, and the gang isn’t particularly interesting. The show doesn’t go well. Mike talked about diving boards for five seconds and then slept for the remaining hour. Even worse, British actor Tom Hollander recorded an audiobook for a satanic text an hour earlier in the same studio.

Tom unwittingly summoned a demon named Lucifuge who kills the sound engineer later that night after cursing the mystery team. Deezy becomes the curse’s first victim when he’s arrested for chopping up the engineer’s body. Then again, he actually did that, so it might not be part of the curse. However, the team decides the curse is real after Mike drowns in the pool.

Marquess takes the gang and Mike’s corpse to summon Lucifuge—a goat=man voiced by the always excellent Fred Armisen. First, Marquess offers up his soul in exchange for Mike’s life. The devil refuses, since Marquess is already dead and therefore not very valuable. Next, Yung offers up her soul. At the last second, Pigeon interjects (possibly because he’s Yung’s birth father) and offers his soul instead.

The demon agrees and revives Mike on the spot. And of course, Pigeon’s selfless deed was actually very selfish as he offered up Deezy’s soul instead of his. The little bird swiped Deezy’s wallet in the first act, so the double-cross was rather clever. Oh well, too bad for Deezy.

In the next episode, there are no supernatural elements, just straight realism.

Anyway, Craig is an airline pilot who misses his wife when he’s on the road. To rectify the matter, he begins sending her sexy texts and pictures from his myriad of Double Tree hotel rooms from across the USA. One day, however, he screws up and sends a video of him jerking off to Nana, his mother-in-law, instead of Nancy, his wife. Worse yet, the mother-in-law is “mother-into-it!”

The mystery team is employed to help him out, but they only make matters worse. Marquess, in one of his selfish moods, breaks it off with Nana, but accidentally texts Nancy. This makes Nancy distraught, and she immediately calls her mother to wallow. Nana, on the other end of the phone, is secretly pleased and hopes to run away with Craig. But first, she must break it off with her husband—who upon hearing the news, has a heart attack and dies.

To win back her man, Nancy dresses in his pilot uniform and sexy lingerie to entice him. After she sends him some sexy pictures, Craig is relieved, and makes sure to let Nana down easy before reuniting with his wife. But since Nana’s husband is already dead, she blames Craig and goes to his house to kill him. Unfortunately, she mistakes her daughter for Craig and shoots her six times. After realizing her mistake, Nana turns the gun on herself.

Well… that’s one in the old loss column for the Mike Tyson Mystery Team.

 

Our Take

I’m glad this show is finally delving into the demonic realm. After all, they’ve had a prominent ghost character for four seasons now. You can’t expect your audience to accept a supernatural being without eventually introducing demons, devils, and warlocks. It’s the next logical step, dammit!

Let’s address the serious amounts of egg taking up residence on my face. Last week, I was certain Pigeon’s secret paternal relationship to Yung would never come up again. I couldn’t have been more wrong. In fact, they mentioned it in the very next episode, “Let’s Make a Deal.” It was subtle and some of the thicker viewers may have missed it, but from the look of things, Pigeon is going to be a pretty good secret dad. Also, if this trend continues, maybe we’ll get a soap opera-esque ending where Pigeon lets the truth slip out, putting Mike in a very awkward position. That would leave Yung to decide who she loves more, and she’ll have to choose her “true” father. And of course, she’ll pick Mike, because no matter how dopey he is at times, he’s always been there for her. Anyway, that’s all conjecture—ignore it, for now.

Finally, did anybody else not feel too broken up when Mike Tyson died? Perhaps, it’s because he’s a known Donald Trump supporter? Damn! Politics really have divided this nation.