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New TV show (at least new to me in AUS). Starts after Olympics, seems interesting, you can read a little about it at the links below, anyone have any more detail?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1196946/

http://www.cbs.com/primetime/the_mentalist/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNNVF8rJjrw

Begs the question... is the astute intuitive mentalist the "perfect" detective?

Perhaps the "character" Sherlock Holmes was an example of this?

B0bbY_CaT wrote:
Begs the question... is the astute intuitive mentalist the "perfect" detective?

I know one thing. He's the perfect wedding entertainer.

I think I'll just hang on for the Jonathan Creek special.

For a minute, I thought this was about Gerry McCambridge's series (same title). Oddly enough, I think his premise was that he learned to detect lies and other 'tells' from his police detective father. Never saw the series, mind you, just read about it!

He's a P.I. ... the show is like a serious version to PSYCH.

I really don't see it lasting beyond a season. The star of the show has been featured in three shows how that had promise but sank, knowing horrid & mysterious deaths. I don't see why this one will prove any different... especially when they start getting nasty notes from us when it comes to exposure issues... .and there will be more than a few, there would have to be given the character's image and the idea of being "smarter" than the rest of the planet.

A programme in the UK called "The Mentalist" would be about an over-weight man in a scruffy anorak and trousers that stopped an inch above his ankles, with rope for a belt, staggering around the centre of town with a half empty bottle of cheap cider, shouting rude words at office girls as they hurried past desperately trying to look the other way.

The English language eh? Tsk.

themagicwand wrote:A programme in the UK called "The Mentalist" would be about an over-weight man in a scruffy anorak and trousers that stopped an inch above his ankles, with rope for a belt, staggering around the centre of town with a half empty bottle of cheap cider, shouting rude words at office girls as they hurried past desperately trying to look the other way.

The English language eh? Tsk.

I think this more than any other reason led to the development of phrases such as "Mind Magician". You just can't go around the UK calling yourself a mentalist. Honestly. You'd get arrested.