Mental

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Season 1
  • Network: FOX
  • Series Premiere Date: May 26, 2009
Metascore
39

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 18 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 18
  3. Negative: 7 out of 18
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Critic Reviews

  1. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: David Hinckley
    60
    Mental doesn't blow in with quite as fresh a breeze as "House." But it could get up into that division.
  2. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Paige Wiser
    50
    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.
  3. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ken Tucker
    50
    Mental's plots are trite and secondary to establishing Gallagher as a policy-defying Brit who says ''Bang on!'' to express enthusiasm.
  5. Newsday
    Reviewed by: Verne Gay
    42
    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.
  6. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Matthew Gilbert
    40
    It's a stubbornly mediocre product that really, really, really wants to be "House" in a hospital psych ward.
  7. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
    Reviewed by: Rob Owen
    40
    If you're bereft without new episodes of "House" this summer and willing to settle for a pale imitation, there's always Fox's Mental.
  8. The New Yorker
    Reviewed by: Nancy Franklin
    40
    Mental, a new drama on Fox, starting May 26th, is solidly mediocre; it’s not good, it’s not terrible, and there’s no reason for it to exist.
  9. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Tom Shales
    40
    The parts of the show that don't seem recycled from previous medical dramas seem recycled from previous crime dramas, with just a few changes of vernacular and gadgetry.
  10. Newark Star-Ledger
    Reviewed by: Alan Sepinwall
    40
    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.
  11. Philadelphia Daily News
    Reviewed by: Ellen Gray
    40
    As TV dramas go, Mental is far from unwatchable. But unless you're spending the summer without cable, it's also probably unnecessary.

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User Score
6.0

Mixed or average reviews- based on 39 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 21 out of 39
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 39
  3. Negative: 14 out of 39
  1. Dr.G.
    Aug 15, 2009
    10
    For years I've been turning OFF the TV Give us more of this and we will tune in.
  2. ShawnM.
    Aug 15, 2009
    10
    This 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.
  3. AaronA.
    Aug 15, 2009
    10
    * Yes, yes, yes! At last a show that holds my attention! Love it and look forward to seeing a whole lot more of it.
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