Mental

Name: Mental
Genre: Drama, Health & Lifestyle
Released: May 26, 2009
Rating: 39
Cast: Edwin Hodge, Marisa Ramírez, Annabella Sciorra, Nicholás González, Jacqueline McKenzie

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FOX | Release Date: May 26, 2009

Starring: Edwin Hodge, Marisa Ramírez, Annabella Sciorra, Nicholás González, Jacqueline McKenzie, Chris Vance, Derek Webster

Summary: This is the first co-production of Fox International Channels (FIC) and Fox Television Studios (FtvS). It's also the first U.S. English-language drama to be shot by Fox Telecolombia in BogotÃ¡, Colombia. Mental is a drama that explores the complexity of the human brain like never seen before. Every week there is a different patient with aThis is the first co-production of Fox International Channels (FIC) and Fox Television Studios (FtvS). It's also the first U.S. English-language drama to be shot by Fox Telecolombia in BogotÃ¡, Colombia. Mental is a drama that explores the complexity of the human brain like never seen before. Every week there is a different patient with a different crisis. Every crisis is a mystery, a confusion, or even a wrong diagnosis from other doctors. Originally from the UK, Jack Gallagher is a compulsive traveler who has taken a position as the director of a psychiatric hospital in L.A. to be in the same city as his twin sister. Fascinated with the power of the human brain since he was a child, Jack approaches psychiatry with unorthodox treatments and slightly unusual methods for the sake of his patients' mental health. He is overseen by Nora, the department administrator who is also his ex-lover.

For Jack, each case is like a puzzle. Jack has the ability to see what his patients have in their heads, to see the world as they do and give them a perspective on their own worlds. Unfortunately, some of his colleagues don't agree with his methods, and they will do anything to get him out of the clinic. Day after day he fights against his sister's schizophrenia, afraid he'll end up as one more victim of this serious mental illness. He is ready to break some rules for the well-being of his patients. For him the most important thing is to get into the mind of his patients, seeing reality as they do and make them understand that the doctors are a part of their recovery. Jack thinks that doctors and patients have much more in common than they are ready to recognize.… Expand

Creator: Deborah Joy LeVine and Daniel Levine and Dan Levine

Genre(s): Drama, Health & Lifestyle

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S1:E13. Bad Moon Rising
Air Date: August 14, 2009
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S1:E12. Life and Limb
Air Date: August 14, 2009
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S1:E11. Lines in the Sand
Air Date: August 7, 2009

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Linda Stasi

Season 1 Review: You don't have to be nuts to love Mental, which is a kind of schizophrenic "House"--but you do have to be willing to suspend disbelief to the point of, well, insanity. Read full review

Paige Wiser

Season 1 Review: Gallagher's played by Chris Vance ("Prison Break"), who tries to overcome the cheesy script with a British accent and a little dignity. He fails. Read full review

Verne Gay

Season 1 Review: It is so numbingly derivative--effectively a dull mash-up of "House" and "Private Practice"--that you quickly forget it's also numbingly silly. But then, maybe that's the whole idea. Read full review

Alan Sepinwall

Season 1 Review: Mental was produced on a relative shoestring by Fox Telecolombia, and there's a flatness not only to the sets (which look not unlike what you might see on a Univision show), but the dialogue and characterizations. Read full review

Michael Judge

Season 1 Review: An early scene from this Tuesday’s premier of the new Fox series Mental, a drama about a psychiatric ward in a fictional Los Angeles hospital, is representative of the larger problems that plague this ill-conceived show. Read full review

Glenn Garvin

Season 1 Review: On Tuesday night, we're going to see if you can get it from television, with three shows that--intentionally or otherwise--document seriously disturbed minds, with results ranging from riveting to revolting. Tending toward the latter is Mental. Read full review

Randee Dawn

Season 1 Review: Ultimately, the problem is that while someone's used considerable brain power to put all these pieces together, they clearly just haven't thought things through. Read full review

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 1

39
- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: May 26, 2009
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  S1:E13. Bad Moon Rising
  Air Date: August 14, 2009
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  S1:E12. Life and Limb
  Air Date: August 14, 2009
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  S1:E11. Lines in the Sand
  Air Date: August 7, 2009
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  S1:E10. Do Over
  Air Date: July 31, 2009
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  S1:E9. Coda
  Air Date: July 24, 2009
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  S1:E8. House of Mirrors
  Air Date: July 17, 2009
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  S1:E7. Obsessively Yours
  Air Date: July 10, 2009
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  S1:E6. Rainy Days
  Air Date: July 3, 2009
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  S1:E5. Roles of Engagement
  Air Date: June 23, 2009
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  S1:E4. Manic at the Disco
  Air Date: June 16, 2009
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  S1:E3. Book of Judges
  Air Date: June 9, 2009
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  S1:E2. A Beautiful Delusion
  Air Date: June 2, 2009
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  S1:E1. Pilot
  Air Date: May 26, 2009