- Network: FOX
- Series Premiere Date: May 26, 2009
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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.
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If Mental sounds a lot like "House" or "The Mentalist" or whatever other foreign-born-actor-playing-a-haunted-man drama you can think of, well, it is. Only nowhere near as good.
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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.
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The creators of Mental couldn’t take Gallagher any further up the mean-spirited scale, so instead they went too far in the other direction and ran smack into cliché.
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Jack delivers to every brilliant-offbeat doctor expectation, which means that for all his hyper-performative charms, Jack is also tedious, right down to the zipper in his forehead that marks commercial breaks.
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Despite some nebulous personal baggage involving a mysterious woman from his past, the character's simply not interesting enough to carry the show virtually alone.
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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.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 21 out of 39
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Mixed: 4 out of 39
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Negative: 14 out of 39
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Dr.G.Aug 15, 2009For years I've been turning OFF the TV Give us more of this and we will tune in.
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ShawnM.Aug 15, 2009This show is funny as heck I laugh my booty off and really hope to see it through another season or two or three. I'm biting thanks.
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AaronA.Aug 15, 2009* Yes, yes, yes! At last a show that holds my attention! Love it and look forward to seeing a whole lot more of it.