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Funny, thoughtful and intricately plotted, The Mentalist is one of the best things to appear on TV in a long time. It follows the fictional California Bureau of Investigation and its gifted “consultant” Patrick Jane – a reformed cod-psychic conman. Ostensibly under the command of Agent Teresa Lisbon (though he rarely does what he’s told), Patrick and the team investigate crimes in standalone stories while, in a long-running arc, pursuing the bogeyman serial killer Red John and his acolytes.The Mentalist Season 1-7 Download.
Patrick, played by the Australian Simon Baker, is a modern-day Sherlock Holmes with the uncanny ability to spot the truth, or lack of it. So sharp are his powers of deduction that people assume he really has a sixth sense, even though he constantly tells them: “There’s no such thing as a psychic.” And that’s one of the best things about The Mentalist, which first aired on CBS in 2008 and was picked up in the UK by Channel 5: nothing that happens is impossible. There’s no magic formula to what Patrick does, no supernatural element. He simply uses the highly developed observational skills he previously employed to “read” people’s minds.
Baker plays it perfectly: cocky but not arrogant, philosophical without being dogmatic, mischievous but not a total pain. His character is interesting and sometimes infuriating: we always want him to succeed, even when his morals are somewhat ambiguous, to say the least. The rest of the cast are excellent too, especially Robin Tunney as Teresa. She’s the show’s heart: believable, grounded, rounded. There’s great chemistry between her and Patrick. They’re like Maddie and David in Moonlighting, only less flippant.The tone is generally laidback, but they know how to ratchet up the tension. Every few episodes, the Red John narrative intersects with the crime of the week.