The Mentalist Mania

Why we're falling in love with Patrick Jane?

The Mentalist was broadcasted with some difficult in Italy, suffered frequently change of schedule and networks but, in the end, even in our Country we can talk about The Mentalist Mania. Our passion concern Patrick Jane (Simon Baker), of course, the leading character of TV series. He's a consulting of the Californian Bureau of Investigation and, thanks to his powers of observation and manipulation of human behavior (he was a fraud TV psychic in the past), he's able to catch criminals with the CBI's team led by the beautiful senior agent Teresa Lisbon (Robin Tunney).


Patrick' success depends on his irreverent humor and scruffy charm, or probably depends on his dark side that he occasionally show us. In the end, I think that every women loves Patrick Jane and the special feeling that he has with Teresa Lisbon.

He is a modern Sherlock Holmes who, thanks to his powers of observation,  finds out the culprit and undestand the right dynamics of the crime 8every time!1). He put together the pieces of the puzzle, sometimes in far-fetched ways, I admit, but with a strong sympathy, irony and suspence.

Who is Red John?

We don't forget the common thread of the story:  catching Red John, the serial killer who murdered Jane's daughter and wife to punish him. A tragedy that return from time to time and allows to see different aspects of Jane and understand that there is much more than it seems. The challenge between Jane and Red John involves the audience, season after season. Everybody tries to reveal the killer's identity or preempt his intrigues.

Other Mentalist' characters reveal new sides of them: Lisbon, Cho, Rigsby and Van Pelth are not fixed figure and they showed unexpected features. This is evident in the third season (now in Italy), and we'll see what happens in The Mentalist 4, that already reached the sixth episode in US.