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The Mentalist
2008 · TV series · 7 seasons
Created by Bruno Heller
Patrick Jane, a former celebrity psychic medium, uses his razor sharp skills of observation and expertise at "reading" people to solve serious crimes with the California Bureau of Investigation.
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(I have only watched the first season of Dr. House and watched a lot of clips of the shows. I am more familiar with Dexter and also recently The Mentalist)
I would say that it depends. I know that Dr. House once caught a girl who had a condition where she wanted to get doctor's attention and he did some really bold move with this hunch.
Dr. House moves on his hunch and he (usually?) turns out to be right. Though most of it is focused on the diagnosis of disease.
It's unclear if they cross paths or not and if House is invested in catching Dexter, if House wants Dexter to be caught.
I do feel like though if Dr. House is somehow invested in catching Dexter. He might be able to do that.
A much more interesting question could also be how Patrick Jane from Mentalist could catch Dexter?
I recommend watching this video if this topic interests you (although I haven't watched it myself and I am going to do it just now): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJB8agSrx-8
I think this was a fun Ask HN and I was actually reading it on the phone and I opened my laptop just to answer it because it caught my attention. I love dexter, its just such a great show in my opinion :-)
[0]: How Long Would It Take Patrick Jane To Catch Dexter?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJB8agSrx-8
That happened in The Mentalist TV series.
Patrick Jane's archenemy, Red John, needed an identity. It wasn't planned beforehand, so they chose one of the insignificant characters from the first chapters.
I believe this native-accent is a common gag; Laurie also in one episode of House MD did the American-faking-a-British accent when he telephoned an overpond doctor in GB to learn more about the medical history of a patient.
I also recall an episode of The Mentalist, where agent Rigsby (played by Welsh Owain Yeoman) says he can imitate a british accent and proceeds to do so, only to receive a “nah, not good enough” by the protagonist.
The issue I (as a non-native English speaker) sometimes have with British actors is: how to pronounce their names?! Examples: the aforementioned Owain Yeoman, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Siobhan (pronounced Shivohn IIUC) Finneran…
*spoiler alert*:
The television show Mentalist explores this idea of serial killer law enforcement officer.
But, the crimes are committed with support from a network of accomplices (some coerced).
To note that this is because people needed a word to describe someone who's "utterly mental" but didn't like "crazy" or "insane" (which are both considered not-PC these days, among other things), so they reached for the closest they'd heard - mentalist, made famous by the TV series - even though it was not the correct word.
But yeah, it is now in common usage. A bit like their/they're/there and "should of", it hurts my pedantic sensibilities, but in the end, people will speak how they want to speak and if enough of them agree, the language just changes.
I especially enjoyed the trailers for tv show "The Mentalist" in this light.
I'm not as sure about the violence aspect of it, but certainly the rest rings true. Imagine the scene, you're driving in London and someone pulls out in front of you and does a series of weird manoeuvres, holding up the whole street for what feels like several hours. An appropriate exclamation could be "What the f*ck are you doing you utter mentalist?"
took me back to when I binge watched "the Mentalist" where Jane (the lead) explains pretty much the same thing. What an incredible show that was.
I had the first twist in the pilot. As soon as Elliot entered the ... club rooms, I figured it out. I'm very good with patterns, and one thing that annoys me is knowing how TV shows are going to end before they do. I had BSG early on, Sixth Sense ("I'll bet he dies and we see a ghost. No, that's just too obvious."), watched three episodes of the Mentalist and had the culprit in the first five minutes of each episode - even within the first minute of the first episode I saw. I'm almost at the point where I can quote some more ordinary movies while I'm watching them. (That's not as odd as it sounds, it's the patterns that are used to build each scene and the overall film that are the giveaway, but it's more subconscious than deliberate.)
So where is Mr. Robot going?
Damned if I know. That's what I like about it. As you say, some of the scenes were so odd that it was clear something was up - why is he watching the game from the bench? Why were they so angry with Elliot, and why was the friend such an influence on them? I didn't pick that one, although perhaps I should have re-watched season 1 before starting 2. I don't think that was the big twist, though, that came later - Juvgrebfr'f fhecevfr gung Ryyvbg qbrfa'g xabj jung Cunfr 2 vf tvira gung vg'f uvf cebwrpg, naq nyy gur cbgragvny snyybhg sebz gung. Vf Juvgrebfr hfvat Ryyvbg sbe uvf bja raqf? I think the other shoe has yet to drop on that one.
I think that people who write it off as "just Fight Club" are hugely missing the point - the narrator in that is just too reliable after we learn the twist, and after all, Fight Club was just a backlash against the overall commercial exploitation of the world at the time. Mr. Robot is about n qryhfvbany cnenabvq fpuvmbcueravp jvgu n fbpvny nakvrgl qvfbeqre, jub unf n zhygv-ynlrerq cyna. Jr'ir bayl frra gur Svtug Pyho cneg bs vg pbzcyrgrq, jung ryfr vf pbzvat?
Really hanging out for the finale tonight.
Ouch. $2 an episode would be harsh for me.
Our cable bill is like, $80 and that includes internet. So maybe $40 of that is for TV.
And I watch a bunch of different shows. CSI x 3, Law and Order, Bones, House, NCIS, Fringe, The Mentalist, Psych, Criminal Minds, Numbers, Law and Order, Lie to Me.
At $2 a show, per week, that'd set me back.. about $110 a month!
Far more than I pay for cable right now.