The Mentalist Reviews

The Mentalist is another excellent new drama from the US, featuring Australian-born Simon Baker as the lead character, Patrick Jane. The background to the series is that Patrick Jane *used* to be a fake psychic, using his mentalist skills. Now, after the murder of his wife and child by a serial killer known as Red John, he has decided ...  Read the complete review

A new program from the yanks, a creation of one of the best US crime drama companies, CBS. I watched this from the beginning, seeing an advert on Channel Five. Basically it follows an ex 'mind-reader' whose child and mother were murdered by a serial killer named Red John. Patrick Jane (Simon Baker) now works for the California Bureau ...  Read the complete review

Having started to feel jaded by the classic crime dramas - much as I love them - I found this refreshing and more worriedly almost laugh out loud entertaining (given the subject I am slightly worried by the impact on my own mental state). For people that have heard nothing of this (surprising - Five and their digi station Five US have ...  Read the complete review

The Mentalist is one of the many American TV shows that I watch, and I knew many months ago when it was on in America, that it was only a matter of time till a UK show bought it. With channel 5 having originally started showing Prison Break and House, it was no suprise to see them also go for The Mentalist as well. I would desrive this ...  Read the complete review

I was pleasantly surprised to see from another reviewer here on dooyoo that 'the Mentalist' is apparently 'taking American TV by storm', because although I like the series a lot I feared that it wasn't getting......gee-whiz- gosh-critically-acclaimed enough to warrant a second series of the show being made, and that would've been a darn shame. ...  Read the complete review

/'men-ta-list/ noun Mentalist - someone who uses mental acuity, hypnosis and/or suggestion. A master manipulator of throughts and behaviour. I have to admit that I came rather late to 'The Mentalist'. I didn't pay much attention until it surfaced on UK shores on the Five TV channel. I had heard about it, I had even ...  Read the complete review

OK, I will openly admit it, the only reason why I tuned into watching this was because there was absoloutly nothing on on that dismal Thursday night of telly. I can actually say that it was lucky that I did. Channel 5 is one of those channels which I stereotype as a no go zone. Being that I haven't found anything worth watching on it, aside ...  Read the complete review

I have only recently got into this programme but I am already hooked. I had seen anumber of the trailers and thought that it looked interesting but things kept getting in the way. However, the last few weeks I have manged to watch it and now I have even serie linked my video so that I won't miss it. The programme is shown on Channel ...  Read the complete review

The Mentalist is a new American drama similar to that of CSI, as a huge CSI fan I had to watch this. Despite the fact its not as well acted or planned as CSI its an excellent watch for a Thursday night. Over the last few years the number of crime dramas specifically American crime dramas have become to much as there are to many on TV however this ...  Read the complete review

The Mentalist, brand new to the UK, is a show from America that is in the same genre as shows like 'Criminal Minds' and 'CSI' but puts an entirely new and creative spin on it. Sure the stories are quite similar and there won't be anything that you haven't seen before in terms of crimes, but the method of the CBI team getting the right person is ...  Read the complete review

The Mentalist, a hot new drama thats taken America by storm and now arriving in the UK. When I saw the adverts in the UK for this I decided to have a bit of a poke around on the net to see the general opinion of this new show. Its already won award for best newcomer show in America and is averaging about 18 million viewers per episode (to compare, ...  Read the complete review

Well I've just watched the first episode of the first series of The Mentalist and I have to say this is one that I am definitely going to keep watching. The Mentalist is based around Patrick Jane who is played by Simon Baker. He's not a psychic, per se, but he has the ability to see things others don't by being very perceptive and by ...  Read the complete review