Mentalist-Complete 1st Season - Emmy & Golden Globe® Nominee!

"It's Baker's show, and he excels. But guest stars impress, too.  Hal Boedeker, Orlando Sentinel

Editor's Note After some success on TV?s THE GUARDIAN, Simon Baker brings his trademark cocky charm back to TV with this highly rated CBS procedural. Baker stars as Patrick Jane, an independent detective whose observational skills are highly prized by the California Bureau of Investigation. As much as his colleagues--Senior Agent Teresa Lisbon (Robin Tunney), Kimball Cho (Tim Kang), Wayne Rigsby (Owain Yeoman), and Grace Van Pelt (Amanda Righetti)--value his results, they are less excited by his unorthodox approach to crime solving. However, Jane?s sexy swagger hides a painful past: his wife and daughter were murdered by a man known as Red John, and though he pursues other criminals, this serial killer is always on his mind. THE MENTALIST boasts fascinating cases and a strong supporting cast, but unlike CBS?s other popular crime dramas CSI and CRIMINAL MINDS, this is a one-man show that gets its spark from Baker?s performance. This release includes the series? first season.

	Simon Baker
	Robin Tunney
	Tim Kang
	Owain Yeoman
	Amanda Righetti

AreYouScreening.com 8 of 10
The Mentalist is yet another crime-drama, that follows the detecting skills of one Patrick Jane (Simon Baker -- The Devil Wears Prada, The Guardian) who is a "consultant" for the CBI -- California Bureau of Investigation. Mr. Jane used to be a fake psychic, and turned a pretty good dollar doing it. He was the big time, as far as that line of work goes, and he now freely admits he was a fake. Like Holmes, he's just good at observing...The first five episodes have played out brilliantly, and we're moving into a critical time for a show like this. I remember when House first started, and there was a real roadblock after something like six or seven episodes when it became distractingly boring that no one could conceive House might be right about anything. The Mentalist has built in a bit of a save to this, in that Robin Tunney's character (who is his boss, or at least bossish) begrudginly admits that he does turn out to be right a lot. She might be moving toward a dangerous line of over-disbelieving him though. We'll see...I strongly urge you to check out the show. It's fast, fun, and at least going for something mental over silly drama (unlike many a show with ludicrous ratings which? ummm? investigate crime scenes, and think acronyms?or I guess just abbreviations? are, "Way Frickin Cool Man!!!") - Marc Eastman