The Mentalist Season 5
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I loved seasons 1-4… outstanding in every way. But I just bought season 5 and I am just not sure what all is wrong here. The chemistry of the team is just gone. Patrick Jane who was so charming and endearing, is well, just more obnoxious than anything else. The writing seems to have changed or is it the editing? Something is “off”… there is no spark, no mystery, just seems to drag in places, then jump to somewhere else w/ no proper leading into the next scene. I have watched 9 episodes already and I keep waiting for it to take off and be like the previous seasons… hoping someone on the production team woke up and got this show back on track… but, so far, has not happened. I see the ratings for season 5 were not great either. What the hell happened? Heartbroken, because this show for the first 4 seasons, had to be one of the best ever. What happened?
– Dana L. Meier
The Mentalist consistently has better writing that most TV dramas, but the tears are beginning to show. It is difficult to maintain excellence over one season, much less five or more. For one thing, the practice of having different writers for the scripts leads to serious inconsistencies. The first episode, the red bead, is a case in point. The climax of the show comes when Jane plants a red bead in an FBI agent’s pocket and then reveals in a hearing that all Red John associates carry such a bead as identification. He then. causes the bead to be found, infuriating the agent and bringing him to violence, thus winning the judge’s sympathy. Two problems with this: First, when Jane brings up the idea that Red John has an adherent in the FBI, everybody, judge included, scoffs. Oh, wait: There’s the little matter of Craig O’Laughlin, only a few episodes back, who was an FBI agent and who WAS working for Red John. And then there’s the matter of all the Red John infiltrators, O’Laughlin, Bosco’s secretary and several more, all kown associates, all known to everyone in that room, and none of whom had been found with a red bead. Ooops.
But that’s what happens. I like this series, and I like the main characters, and for once we’re spared some of the cliches of TV (although some are still evident) but the series has gone on too long. It’s getting tedious. Time to bring it to a close.
-amazon reader
The pushed feminism is so overly done…VERY annoying! Love the story actually using the mind and deduction, but a lot of stupid story-line added, miss-matched personalities in some romances make them corny and overt graphic violence take away from what could have been up there with White Collar. Still one of the more intellectual series out there.
-Loren
DVD Wholesale Main Features:
Actors: Simon Baker, Robin Tunney, Tim Kang, Owain Yeoman, Amanda Righetti
Writers: Bruno Heller
Producers: Bruno Heller, Chris Long, Tom Szentgyorgyi, Daniel Cerone, Eoghan Mahony
Format: AC-3, Box set, Color, Dolby, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
Subtitles: Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin Chinese, Thai, French
Subtitles for the Hearing Impaired: English
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number of discs: 5
Studio: Warner Home Video
DVD Release Date: September 17, 2013
Run Time: 946 minutes
