Comments on: ‘The Mentalist’ season 6, episode 14 preview: Simon Baker, ‘Grey Water,’ and oil

By: LC

LC — Thu, 13 Mar 2014 00:31:00 +0000

Just read a spoiler that Lisbon character is considering leaving? Are they writing the actress out of the show??

By: JuliaM

JuliaM — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 21:24:00 +0000

I want more Jane and Lisbon! I don’t like this Kim girl and having “not enough” of Lisbon doesn’t make me feel better.

By: mable

mable — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 23:39:00 +0000

First, let me say that I am a HUGE fan of The Mentalist. Fans wished for different things to happen after the Red John capture- explanations for unanswered questions, to know how Jane would be after he killed Red John, a deepening or at least some explanation of Jane and Lisbon’s relationship, a girlfriend for Cho. I believe Bruno Heller had a different take on things. Its seems to me that Bruno has two mistresses to serve- hardcore fan wishes and a million-dollar TV network. Hardcore fans wants details like I mentioned before but they are a smaller part of the show’s audience. The Mentalist audience, at least in America, is made up of older viewers who like the tried and true police procedural and a somewhat predictable story, like NCIS or CSI. Many fans complained about the Red John story–see the show’s Facebook page for examples–and wanted it to end and “go back to Jane solving crimes”. So Bruno is faced with a dilemma, give the fans what they want or please the network. It seems that now he is pleasing the network after giving fans an early conclusion to the Red John saga perhaps in a effort to get renewed. Hopefully a renewal happens and fans will get what they are hoping to see, whatever that may be.

By: T.Z.

T.Z. — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 23:02:00 +0000

More on screen time between Jane and Lisbon, and Jane taking more interest on who is hunting down the old CBI agents and not waiting until Grace is kidnapped to get involved. These are people he used to work with, and damn it, they helped him in his quest for Red John a time or two. Surely Jane didn’t forget about that.