George, you are so wrong. Why would the audience not appreciate Cho dating a blonde hooker. He did the right thing though, it had to end, they were a bit too volatile together. This episode was a bit humdrum, not Ashley Gable's finest although it was her last. Santa Marta, the location of this ep was the same as in the first season where the other surfer (girl) was killed, which she also wrote. I love Rigsby, not so jittery and happy in his new role. VP is also becoming a person of her own. This was lighthearted and leading into the next 2 eps whicch are going to be grueling.
The writers have posted a work board of all episodes of season 4 and the last few ones reveal that Jane will truly have a breakdown (as per "loses his shit"), slap Lisbon, carry a holstered gun, lose the vest and run to Vegas where he meets a cocktail waitress (Lorelei), so we have the last two episodes, written by tom and Bruno to get our blood pounding.
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Limehouse could be the next Madge Bennet replacement villain?
are all these just leading us to an epic ending of season or just opening up cans of worms.
Just thinking out of the box here perhaps!
This was a good (not great) episode in that the murder again took a back seat to the interaction between Jane and Flynn. The kiss was so charming and tantalizing and I do like her more than Kristina who would have liked to get her hands on Patrick, however, Morena B is scheduled to do another spot on the show in the future, how sweet if Simon were to go find her as he seemed to be pondering on just that in the final moments of this episode. Maybe not so much as a romantic interest but just to show he can do it. What do you think out there.
I remember the first episode when Jane taunted the father who had muredered his daughter if he had killed her, the way he answered, emphatic denial and slight incline of the head to the righwas a sure sign that he was lying, any neuro-linguistic student learns to read these signs right off. I'm sure they must have a real mentalist on the set for that kind of realism, but it is sweet to have Simon so well display this with his acting skills, he nails it every time.
Simon called it the gag murder of the week and he meant that it was a vehicle to insert oneself into the charactor's psyche. I think R.J. went back to Rosalin in order to complete his mission of misdirection, i.e. why kill the morgue attendant and not Darcy as previously teased. Why all the secrecy about releasing the files, Wainright is not a favourite of mine. Rosalin seemed to be in a trance (remember Kristina after R.J.) with the blood on her hands and playing Bach furiously and not sensually as before.
As a side point, who did the hair and makeup for this episode, Simon looked tired and overcoiffed lately, Amanda with the cheap eyeshadow and Robin's hair and pale face looked rattled and not by Jane.
I admist that Lisbon was very blase about the necklace, since she's the one who was there when V.P. shot her fiance, and Grace hanging the locket over her Orchid was a good sign, just like Jane likes to revisit the room where his wife was murdered so as to remind himself of who he was and what it cost him. Rigsby on the other hand is still like a puppy dog who refuses to be trained, and he's getting in more deeply with Sarah.
Lisbon is trusting more in Jane's instincts which shows the direction the show is going to go now that Jane has stepped over to the dark side. Baker has even warned the audience that we are going to have to follow him into this journey like it or not. Kudos to the writers to ceate a charactor that is evolving into something less likeable and more sinister and devious that previously entertained.
It was good to see the interaction between Cho and Summer, and I hope the pill popping thing is going to end soon, that is so cliche. Jane is dancing and even has Lisbon questioning his sanity again. Truly, chasing monsters really does affect you. Going with Van Pelt to rescue Darcy was impressive, since Jane is usually so in the bushes when danger lurks, you can see that R.J. really had him scared. However, his having access to evidence is far fetched, since the case was passed on to the FBI and all evidence would be in their posession, so the writers again flaunt reality but it was agood episode, allowing beker to summon up real emotions. I still think that Red John will go after Darcy anyways since he can see Jane's manipulations.
Great review despite the oopsies. Going back to the R.J. arc, the often use of W.Blake's poetry is quite true in this episode, the lamb and the tiger, without good there is evil and in life there is death is quite obvious in Jane's double personality. Both sides came together and Baker once again proved to be in perfect control, from the underwater death to grabbing Lisbon's derriere, and the quiet angst at the open door. Notice too how his house has begun to show the sadness that also lurks in Jane's life, nice touch. The writing is getting better. Keep it up.
Good episode although why a defense attorney would be prepping an officer of the law is a glaring mistake, you arrest criminals, then you work with the D.A. to get them incarcerated. Cho with a drug problem is so cliche, I hope they just resolve this quicklyas it could be embarassing for Kimball. Jane doing his psychic thing was great, since that is his forte and seldom used lately. Wainright is proving to be a wuss and I don't know where he got his credentials, I'm assuming he's someone's nephew. I'm glad Simon got to enjoy his favorite (ice cream) with his final comments, yes death is finite, as I remember the first episode when he made the football comment to Grace about when the wistle blows that's it, no replay.
It will be interesting to have another lagal drama, I loved the movie, Grisham is quite readable, but it will have to be DVRed since it will be on at the same time as the mentalist, and I do love those antics.
Blinking Red Light was a hard one to follow so this episode was a bit more on the funny side. What I am noticing though is that Jane is getting bolder and perhaps showing more his darker side even when joking. In Red Light, when he pats the young girl's father on the shoulder, he was showing emotion which he usually refrains from, but he felt a tie to this man watching his daughter dancing. In this episode, he only shows concern for the children and has no reason to make the husband feel better, he just needs to solve the crime in his fashion. I think Lisbon carried this one, and Cho did smile which was nice, I've seen Tim with his daughter and he does smile so fondly with her. The thing with the bra also was lame, that gal had fake knockers that would hold up without one.
Kristina Frye was the only victim, besides Jane, that Red John has allowed to live. Also the comment he made to Patrick when he was Saran Wrapped to the chair was the same one he himself used as a toast to Kristina on their ill fated date. She is obviously related or a part of the Red John intrigue and we will see her again along with the Visualize Guru, Bret Styles. Patrick is now in a much darker place inwardly since his killing the pseudo-Red John and we probably wont have the banter as much, he is now a murderer himself albeit self righteous about it and his allowing Panzer to give his suicidal taunt to Red John shows the degree he will go to rid the world of scumbags.
Best episode so far this season. Mr Baker did an excellent job directing, very tight and controlled. Red John becoming an ally of sorts with Jane to take down a man who could never be presumed the killer. When jane sees the light and knows he must remove this killer of young girls, how amazing to see his blank look as he watches Panzer taunt R.J. Great acting but I also found the scene with Grace and Lisbon searching the man's house by themselves a bit out there, where were Cho and Rigsby?
Are all policeman and women families that messed up? It seems that each time a member of our protagonists' family shows up, they're a bunch of misfits or cons. There was Rigsby's father, Jane's brother-in-law, Cho's parents who he accused of not letting him free which led to his being in a gang, and apparently there is some dirt in Grace's past which will eventually be revealed. Enough already, suffice it to know they had family.This episode was pretty lame, uninteresting, banal even. Lets get back to some murders shall we, after all this is what this show is about, a mentalist solving crime in his own disfunctional but amusing way. More jane, less morass, or is Mr. Baker getting tired.
The ending was a bit strange since previously Jane never believed that his family were in another world etc. quite righfully, they are gone, so throwing the flower into the surf was maybe last ditch wishfull thinking or just a sad farewell to someone he will never see again, just like the sea never remains the same. It was nice seeing him taunt these islanders as he is so fond of doing, and tea with the older lady was a hoot. Why is eveybody so anxious to see him and Lisbon get it on. It will never happen, that would signal the end of the show.
He did say psychopath, which in a way he is, however, in the first season we have seen Jane in a mental institution suffering from PTSD and a breakdown which he said he wasn't proud of. His psychiatrist encouraged him to find his way out and resume his life with a new purpose, vengence, and that is what keeps him going, so yes, a deep psychosis brought on by horrific trauma can be reversed only partially, the trauma being causality, thus motivation for revenge can assuage the guilt of survival. If one remembers the episode where he mentions how he lost patience a long time ago, there is only patience after redemption.
The Texas twang was a bit much. Not a very good episode, crime-solving-wise and in my opinion, Jane is becoming too pedantic or wordy, like a professor and seems to want to take the lead openly now rather than his old quiet ways of obstructing and solving. He also is looking like a professor rather than a psychopath, go back to season one, I'm missing that dissipated cchild look with a touch of melancholy along with the wild hair. It seems to me the writing was also more sophisticated with a lot more quips. Although the makeup this season is better than last.
I too am pleased to see the team back together, as was inevitable. The R.J. arc is just a vehicle to move the show, its premise was good and as was mentioned, we need a villain along with the weekly nasty to root for our protagonist, who has now proven himself to be the dark individual we always saw him as. Lisbon has finally accepted that she cannot change him and recognises his strong attachment to her, hence his wreaking havoc with the new team.
What a great moment when he arranges for the two
members to duke it out and then uses his skills to frame the rest of them, even using Bertram to do the deed.
The little comment about time, quoting E. Taylor was primo. Loved it and bringing back R.J.'s blind mistress was a surprise. All in all better than last week's and I'm looking forward to more of the same.
I agree that this episode which started off quite smashingly low kee\y, turned up too many bad scenarios. One, being acquitted of murder one, when he obviously did kill a man, albeit in self defense and justified as he puts it, the D.A. has the upper hand and yet the jury (I thinks R.J. had a controlling interest in keeping Jane out of jail and might have tampered with the jury) and the whole Carter thing was so offside, and Jane did catch on early since he attached his locker key to Carter's set in the box of personal effects.
Lisbon played it well, not scoldingly since she knows that her team is in jeopardy and she needs Jane to help clear them.
Mr Heller gave us a completely great ending to last season which kept us wondering all summer and then drops the ball with this episode. Keeping Red john alive is O.K., it has something to do with that cult group and McDowell is coming back along with Kristina I'm sure. Jane is a murderer, who mocks the law and will put his friends as well as his enemies in hot water to achieve his goals. He is quite a dark charactor and Heller should have really honed in on that, not the card game in prison.
Glad to be of help or did I spoil it for everyone. Even with Jane out of jail, and with revenge behind him along with the driving force to impel one to act, it was exacted in a final fantastic way and quite thrilling and satisfying. As he told RJ, he will go on with his life. Sorry to hear that you wont see the new season 'til November in England, bummer!
anyone who lives in southern California can find where they are filming, and since they are often filming more than one episode at a time, you can see what they are filming so you can judge what the episode is about sometime. We know they filmed at the courthouse that was used before, and which mall was used for the final episode, the jail is the same one used before, they arenow filming at the beach and were in the Canyon and in palmdale recently. One only has to research locations on line to know. Of course getting access is quite difficult sometime and filming is quite tedious.
For those of us living in California, we get to often view the filming on location of certain t.v. shows. The mentalist was indeed filming at a courthouse in southern california on the 18th, the first day of shooting apparently for season 4. So we will see Patrick remanded in court for the murder of R.J. A lot of secrecy however on the set.
How could one not see that the inevitable conclusion is a collusion between R.J. and his associates. Why kill cops? When any of them would get too close to the truth, even by accident, they were eliminated. Also Brett Stiles knew a lot about R.J. and even where Kristine Fry was being kept. Since she was alive, one assumes that she is related to R.J. in some way and he would not kill her but return her toPatrick to further bewilder him. How he gets out of prison will be difficult since all the proof he needs to square his actions with the law has supposedly been removed from the crime scene. He is on his own, in jail while both Lisbon and Van Pelt recover from the events. I think Hightower will prove to be a great asset to Jane. What an interesting turn of events for a manipulative writer, Mr. Heller
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are all these just leading us to an epic ending of season or just opening up cans of worms.
Just thinking out of the box here perhaps!
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As a side point, who did the hair and makeup for this episode, Simon looked tired and overcoiffed lately, Amanda with the cheap eyeshadow and Robin's hair and pale face looked rattled and not by Jane.
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Lisbon is trusting more in Jane's instincts which shows the direction the show is going to go now that Jane has stepped over to the dark side. Baker has even warned the audience that we are going to have to follow him into this journey like it or not. Kudos to the writers to ceate a charactor that is evolving into something less likeable and more sinister and devious that previously entertained.
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What a great moment when he arranges for the two
members to duke it out and then uses his skills to frame the rest of them, even using Bertram to do the deed.
The little comment about time, quoting E. Taylor was primo. Loved it and bringing back R.J.'s blind mistress was a surprise. All in all better than last week's and I'm looking forward to more of the same.
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Lisbon played it well, not scoldingly since she knows that her team is in jeopardy and she needs Jane to help clear them.
Mr Heller gave us a completely great ending to last season which kept us wondering all summer and then drops the ball with this episode. Keeping Red john alive is O.K., it has something to do with that cult group and McDowell is coming back along with Kristina I'm sure. Jane is a murderer, who mocks the law and will put his friends as well as his enemies in hot water to achieve his goals. He is quite a dark charactor and Heller should have really honed in on that, not the card game in prison.
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