One-sentence review of S2 of The Mentalist
Mar. 7th, 2011 07:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
It's going to be hard to top the one where the clown kills the mathematician, but I'm sure they'll try.
(Also: insufficient Cho! I mean, granted, I would watch Agent Cho, His Girlfriend, and His Dead Best Friend's Gran. Especially if it was on after Everybody Loves Reid's Mom. But seriously, one Cho-heavy episode is nothing like enough.)
(Also: insufficient Cho! I mean, granted, I would watch Agent Cho, His Girlfriend, and His Dead Best Friend's Gran. Especially if it was on after Everybody Loves Reid's Mom. But seriously, one Cho-heavy episode is nothing like enough.)
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Date: 2011-03-07 01:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-07 01:39 pm (UTC)(Seriously, I was very pleased with Van Pelt getting to do more field work this season, especially when she turned out to be a quite competent pursuit driver.)
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Date: 2011-03-07 01:49 pm (UTC)However, I will concede that Cho's character is much better. But I don't think Van Pelt is really meant as anything but scenery.
Also, I don't think the writers even know what they're doing with Red John at this point. It's all over the place and it seems like everyone is in on it as soon as they're off camera.
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Date: 2011-03-07 01:56 pm (UTC)(Seriously, William Blake? I am having a Bull Durham moment here: what do they mean, William Blake?)
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Date: 2011-03-07 01:36 pm (UTC)Maybe Matt Li, FBI Special Agent What Does Funny Voices could have the ten pm slot?
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Date: 2011-03-07 01:40 pm (UTC)Morgan's elder sister is Wallace's mom, so then Wallace could be on there, and that would be awesome too.
Also we had someone picked out as the person who brought Reid's Mom medieval manuscripts there in her institution, but I forget who it was.
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Date: 2011-03-07 02:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-07 02:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-07 02:01 pm (UTC)http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0196536/
Also, my editor's nephew, if I have the relationship correct--that's the same King as in Tappan.
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Date: 2011-03-07 02:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-07 02:06 pm (UTC)I will report back.
Reid's Mom does not recur enough, either.
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Date: 2011-03-07 02:08 pm (UTC)And if you'd told me Jane Lynch would have a major role on a TV series, I would have done a happy dance. And, um. I saw enough of Glee in the hospital waiting room when my grandmother's appendix ruptured to be able to tell that it is Not For Me At All. Very, very, very sad. Because I do like Jane Lynch.
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Date: 2011-03-07 02:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-07 01:58 pm (UTC)The Red John stuff doesn't get any better in S3. Sigh.
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Date: 2011-03-07 03:40 pm (UTC)I really wish they would just kill off Red John and move on. I don't think--and apparently numerous other watchers agree--that the plot line is nearly as intriguing as the writers seem to think it is.
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Date: 2011-03-07 03:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-08 04:03 am (UTC)I did a bit of a double-take on that one. It would probably help if I had ever seen the show in question...
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Date: 2011-03-08 12:43 pm (UTC)