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August 31st, 2011 at 5:47 pm

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又有一书推荐/馒头0415观后（冷静） « Spinner's End
February 20th, 2012 at 12:27 am

[…] 哇咧，姐特么的为一集电视剧分析成这样……不过还有比姐更疯狂的人，给所有馒头粉推荐这个网址RivewBrain。非Jisbon的shippers也不用害怕，该博主不赞成太快展开这两人之间的罗曼史（不过伊也认为要是馒头叔要move on的话，理应别无他选）。伊的一些理论非常有趣，别有洞天（比如伊坚持在jisbon关系中，Lisbon是更疏离的那个，而馒头叔是更急切的那个，两人的关系之所以徘徊不前，主要是Lisbon的原因）。还有一些细节和人物上的解读，相信应该会让不少此剧的fan产生“天涯有知己”的亲近感。 Like this:LikeBe the first to like this post. […]

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Serena
June 15th, 2012 at 3:13 pm

hi……I have to say that your reviews are done vary well. i was wandering way there is no review of the last ep.
I who’d like to know your point of view on the ” Love you” thing.
I have some doubt about it. Normally Love you is for family and friends. but then he didn’t denied ( what did I say? i was hyped up…….hi really did’t lie that well there.He who’d not have denied it if he meant it as friendship,
I am all for Jisbon and when I so Patrick reaching for Teresa’s hand my heart skipped a beet. It was vary sweet, and vary human of him. As far as being out of character, he is being developing all threw the series, right from the vary first you can tell that he has feeling for her. In the last ep he miss’t her so much that he can’t resist. She is definitely in love with him, way suffer so long and bad for him, and is not only that the way the all seen is, no body can deny the fact that that is love. I’m vary sure of the actors ability to show friendship or love, and make us believe it. Robin and Simon can act, so the ambiguity lies in the sine .
there is allot of mix signals thru the 4th season. But that it all change when he tell’s her he miid her after working with Durcy. i have to read your review of that ep steel but I think we agree on that matter, that he has come to terms with his feeling, but not her .
Sorry I just love to find somebody to have this kind of discussions with

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turschwellenangst
October 6th, 2012 at 6:15 am

Hey, are you going to do a review of the first episode of season 5 anytime soon? 🙂

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reviewbrain
October 6th, 2012 at 7:52 am

I just did, it’s called Little Red Bead 😉

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palindrome191
January 15th, 2013 at 9:36 am

I’m currently in a Mentalist Season 4 marathon and I appreciate your in-depth reviews of the show. My offline reader is filled with your blogs for season 3 and 4 episodes and Mentalist fanfic. I just want to express my thanks and keep up the good work.

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reviewbrain
January 22nd, 2013 at 11:17 pm

Thank you so much for sharing your kind words. Welcome to the blog 🙂

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doryann19
January 26th, 2013 at 10:33 pm

I love the show, love your review and love the art! Tks!

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OldMan
February 23rd, 2013 at 4:52 pm

When Renfrew and the prostitute are killed we see a Smiley. But, it is seen (by us) in the mirror. It is a mirror image. It looks right, in the mirror image shot, but it is, actually, therefore, backwards in “reality”, on the wall. Red John would not paint his trademark, signature symbol, backwards. He is an artist, perfectionist. I think it unthinkable that he would get his symbol wrong. It would be like The Batman using his bat-sign upside-down. It just won’t happen.
Red John did not do those killings. Someone else did. This may have bearing on what was written in blood on the wall. Probably does.

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Lou Ann
March 23rd, 2013 at 12:46 am

Dear Review Brain: I have been reading your reviews and the responses chronologically. Now I’m up to Little Red Corvette. I enjoyed your review. How do I find the responses from the other readers, like Violet and Windsparrow, etc? I have no experience with such web sites and blogs, being in reality pretty computer/web illiterate. Thank you for your help.

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Manda
April 2nd, 2013 at 6:26 pm

I just finished a Mentalist marathon, and i was searching for a song name in an episode (The one in the scene where Summer and Cho says goodbye. So sad 😦 But epic music. So if someone who sees this can be botherd to tell me what the song name is, i’d really appriciate it, cause i can’t find it) and i found your blog! I just wanted to say, that i really really love it. And i saw i’m not the only one saying that ^^ Keep up the awesome work!

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Manda
April 2nd, 2013 at 6:34 pm

Oh, and i’m reading all your reviews. From the start. Greetings from Finland. 🙂

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Manda
December 12th, 2019 at 2:24 pm

HAHA! I just rediscovered this and have to tell you that this was a huge help to opening my mind for analysis. Invaluable asset for the studies I chose! That’s me, commenting as a 13 year old above.

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Solitaire des Laurent
April 24th, 2020 at 2:37 pm

Hi, there!

Not sure if this blog is still being monitored at all, but I thought I’d take my chances anyway and post my thoughts…

And so here’s my story…

I’ve always loved THE MENTALIST. But I think even more so now than ever. Which is weird, I know, since the show ended in 2015- which still breaks my heart a little. Or a lot, if I’m being brutally honest. Thank goodness for streaming technology these days though, am I right? Lol!

So I’ve been hearing of The Mentalist for a while, back in 2012 (when, for some strange reason, I thought it was either a documentary series or some live show about magicians- haha), before I even decided to actually check it out around 2014 — and boy, am I glad I did.

Turns out, it’s a helluva procedural cop show! One of the best, if not THE best, in my opinion (I’ve read somewhere online that as far as critical reception and acclaim, it was never considered very original, or, for that matter, distinguished for its originality, possibly because of the rather similar plot that another show had at the time, which only happened to premiere two years prior. Now I have not seen that other series, but I’m still willing to bet that the genius of The Mentalist far outweighs anything it has to offer. Hello, first off, the stars and characters of The Mentalist [particularly Simon Baker’s Patrick Jane & Robin Tunney’s Teresa Lisbon] already blow anything else off the water, duh. Not to mention, the clever writing, the witty humor, plus the delectably amazing acting…nothing compares. So even if the show’s premise isn’t the most original, who cares? At any rate, it still received numerous accolades for its sheer brilliance, and ever rightfully so.).

Of course by the time I started watching it, it was already in its later seasons, which is okay, because I still found ways to watch the earlier seasons I missed, either via syndication reruns on basic cable or other means on the internet. Mind you, this was even before the peak or influx of streaming, or at least, streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Apple TV, or whatever else have you, were only just beginning to take the world by storm. And just my luck, The Mentalist wasn’t available in any of those streaming services back then. It is now though, THANK HEAVENS.

Because fast-forward a few years later, I find out that it’s now available for streaming on Prime, and I couldn’t be happier. I only waited five long years for this. And with the health crisis gripping the world right now, with all the…chaos and turmoil threatening to tear the planet apart, in more ways than one, I have had to stay home from work, and then eventually furloughed, just recently, might I add. So as you can probably already imagine, I suddenly find so much free time in my hands, which, I welcome, despite the consequences of losing my regular paycheck. Because I did want to take some time off to make up for, or catch up on some R & R (Rest and Relaxation) I had been missing, as well as to pursue other interests that I couldn’t make time for in the past.

All this time in my hands, The Mentalist has filled so wonderfully. I’ve been re-binging on it since the first day I learned it’s being streamed on Prime. That was, oh, only about four or so weeks ago. “…And it was beautiful. It was…redemptive.” (In the words of one of the perpetrators in the 1st Season — Tommy, I think his name was — from the episode Flame Red; just one of a number of scenes that make The Mentalist superbly superior). Cathartic even- my…rediscovery, so to speak, of The Mentalist. And I haven’t so much as watched anything else since. I am simply so wrapped-up in it. Hooked…once again. Only this time, I seem to have this newfound, deeper, more profound appreciation for the show, and I am helplessly obsessed. Addicted to it. More (now) than I was years before.

Which, in turn, led me to discovering this Mentalist slice of heaven over the internet. This blog of yours not only allowed me to explore the depths of the show’s hidden and underlying meanings through your extensive and in-depth analyses, but every word in your reviews speaks exactly what I, myself, already hold in my mind to be true. I wish saying “I couldn’t agree with you more.” is enough, but you have no idea how almost every sentence here gets me either nodding in agreement, sighing in awe, responding in comprehension (basically just talking with myself), and getting goosebumps in understanding.

Even your collective opinion on the guest stars and some recurring characters- I feel the exact same way about them, it’s just uncanny! It made me wish I had been a part of this blog all those years ago. But then, at the same time, I am also grateful and thankful to have found this now, because I really need something to turn to for comfort, now that I’ve been rewatching the show. Something to stay the heartache over it having already ended. Is it too far-fetched to wish that they bring it back? One can always hope. And I can always dream… After all, they do come true sometimes.

…And that’s my story.

Apologies, by the way, for this ‘novella,’ I just really am in desperate need of a platform to express my newfound adoration for The Mentalist now, as well as of fellow fans to talk to about the show (And it just so happens, that writing things out always makes me feel a tad, or a whole lot better about something.). Presently, I feel like…I’m so smitten with The Mentalist, which is pleasurable, but, at the same time — for lack of a more elegant and eloquent phrase — bummed out, because I don’t know of anyone to share these thoughts with, coupled with the fact that I’m obsessing over a series that has long since aired its majestic ‘swan song.’

Now I just have to say this, that I waited to mention it till this very last part…but you couldn’t imagine how happy it makes me to find here fans of the show who also rooted for Teresa and Patrick (perhaps even from the very beginning). Because I have to admit, more than its brilliance and its genius, what endeared me to The Mentalist the most, is the romance that exudes from these two main characters. The love story between TERESA & PATRICK.

I just can’t get over it. Them. That I find myself re-watching over and over those scenes between them that I find…sweetest, most romantic, endearing and priceless.

In a nutshell, The Mentalist truly is, by far and away, one of the greatest series on primetime television…in television history, period.

And so, while I wasn’t looking, and in true Mentalist fashion, Patrick Jane (along with Teresa Lisbon) turned me into a full-pledged, hardcore fan in the fleeting span of a heartbeat. Such was…IS the magic of The Mentalist.

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Ram
July 23rd, 2021 at 12:37 am

Hi is this site still maintained? Where are the seasons 6 and 7 mentalist reviews? Thanks

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reviewbrain
July 23rd, 2021 at 11:05 pm

Hello. They’re there just not in the menu.

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reviewbrain
July 23rd, 2021 at 11:06 pm

Hello. They are there just not in the menu. You should find them if you scroll back far enough. Ill try to post links to them in the menu tomorrow

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Ram
July 24th, 2021 at 8:08 am

THANK YOU! I love your reviews very much!

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reviewbrain
October 13th, 2021 at 5:04 am

You’re most welcome. Hope you continue enjoying them 🙂

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lumala
October 20th, 2021 at 5:39 am

@Solitaire des Laurent “I’m so smitten with The Mentalist, which is pleasurable, but, at the same time — for lack of a more elegant and eloquent phrase — bummed out, because I don’t know of anyone to share these thoughts with, coupled with the fact that I’m obsessing over a series that has long since aired its majestic ‘swan song.”: same here! I just finished the last episode and want to express my appreciation to reviewbrain and bloomingviolette2013 for the fascinating reviews. I read pretty much the whole blog 🙂 I will now enter the “mourning” phase for a few days, missing Patrick Teresa Cho Wylie and Dennis so much… So thankful to have been able to watch that show!

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Haifa
March 28th, 2022 at 1:58 am

Hi, I just wanted to say that I have fallen in love with the series shower watching it again after all these years. Also, absolutely love your work here. I wanted to ask if there are reviews for the first two seasons, and I’m just not able to see them for some reason. TIA

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reviewbrain
March 28th, 2022 at 3:45 am

Hello! Thank you and welcome. I never wrote reviews for the episodes of season one and two, I started at season three then wrote a review for each episode after it aired. Pity since those early seasons were amazing and laid down the groundwork for the rest of the show. Might actually do them some day when I’m free. Thanks for commenting❤️

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xianshu wang
November 14th, 2023 at 7:19 am

I’m really surprised to find someone whose tastes align so closely with mine in this world. After watching “The Mentalist,” I’ve been searching online and found your comments on it, which completely resonate with my own thoughts. Then I browsed your website and discovered that you also enjoy “Run with the Wind.” I’m genuinely amazed because I read it a couple of years ago, not the anime but the novel, and I finished it in one night. I loved it and also read other novels by the same author, which I highly recommend to you. Unfortunately, Chinese is my native language, so I used Google Translate for these words, which may not fully convey my excitement and my love for this website and your reviews. It’s a shame that English isn’t my native language; otherwise, I’d love to get to know you and be good friends with you. I think we would get along very well.

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