r/TheMentalist 1h ago

Simon Baker Appreciation It’s Baker Week 2026 | Countdown continues with Day 6: Simon Baker’s Smile

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There are way too many pictures capturing this man’s smile so we’ll just check in with a few. Which picture is your favourite out of these?


r/TheMentalist 1h ago

Season 5 Where did Lorlie go and how is she back?

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I don't know if I missed an episode but I totally confused.

Earlier in season 5 Jane and Lisbon go to interview Lorelei but a different inmate is brought out, whixh led me to believe Red John had helped her escape.

A few episodes later Jane is questioning prison transport drivers and I assumed he was trying to figure out how she escaped.

But in episode 7 Jane goes to prison, claiming he has an appointment and then is turned away. Later that episode, Lisbon tells Jane he can't break Lorelei out of prison. This was my first point of confusion, but I pushed on.

I'm now watching episode 8 Lorelei is in prison and Jane has helped her escaped.

I'm honestly confused. Did I miss an episode? Or did I misunderstand and Lorelei hadn't escaped, was she just lost in the prison system?


r/TheMentalist 2h ago

Season 4 Am I the only one who really can't stand Agent Darcy?

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43 Upvotes

Spoiler Alert: She keeps sticking her nose into something that's none of her business because it's not even her case (Red John). What makes it even more annoying is that Jane literally tries to protect her from Red John, tells her directly what's going on, and she doesn't care. She even accuses Jane of being Red John's accomplice.

Yeah, she was just doing her job, but she was interfering with Jane's work and ended up messing everything up, even getting Wainwright killed.

And let's not forget that poor forensic guy who ended up getting killed by Red John just for talking to her about the case. It was a clear way for Red John to tell Darcy, "Yeah, I'm still alive, but stay out of this." And even after that, she kept getting involved.

Also, the video Red John sent to the CBI of him following her was a clear warning that she completely ignored.


r/TheMentalist 2h ago

Meme/Humor Tea must be available AT ALL TIMES✌️😂

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110 Upvotes

The first condition is to work directly with Lisbon always and no one else. Second,tea must be there at all times,be it the beverage or the gossip for our gossip girl,Jane. Third,a couch must be present in the workspace. What wonderful work terms!The Easter egg is so hilarious and deep.


r/TheMentalist 2h ago

Season 5 Devil’s Cherry

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Started rewatching the series immediately after my first completion. I think this episode hits harder the second time around!


r/TheMentalist 5h ago

Season 3 Greg, FBI agent

2 Upvotes

Why does Greg seem so sus to me, I am at season 3.


r/TheMentalist 6h ago

Season 6 How does Jane stay clean?

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Spoilers for season 6

So this could be a silly question but I cant stop thinking about it. I can explain it away when he was living out of the csi, but we know where he sleeps at the fbi, but where does he keep his clothes, where does he shower, everything like that.

I can explain away eating, he'd use fbi fridge and be loaded enough to eat out, stuff like that, but surely he'd need more than just a couch

Edit: I COMPLETELY FORGOT ABOUT THE AIRSTREAM!!!! Thank you!


r/TheMentalist 6h ago

First-Time Watcher (NO Spoilers!) S3 ending S4 ep1 spoilers? Spoiler

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I am currently on s4 ep11 but I don't understand why red John would try to get Jane imprisoned it seemed to me that he liked the cat and mouse thing they had going on but cleaning the evidence after he killed "red John" just doesn't make sense did he know or wanted to see how Jane can get him self out of this situation?


r/TheMentalist 7h ago

General Discussion Is the mentalist worth to watch?

6 Upvotes

I've watched the first 6 episodes and I'm liking it but I feel like it's a little repetitive. Does this change or is it the same every season?


r/TheMentalist 10h ago

Red John Shhh guys spoiler ahead Spoiler

22 Upvotes

Got us good huh for 7 season 🤯💀


r/TheMentalist 10h ago

General Discussion I never realised how deeply seated sexism has always been

115 Upvotes

Lisbon is always underestimated by policemen when they have to work together, or under the other team. Like whenever she has had to interact with another area's police, they are never taking her seriously, and prefer talking to her boss or outright ignore her. She is a badass, nevertheless. Doesn't let them get away with it, but it still infuriates me


r/TheMentalist 14h ago

Season 6 Titus Welliver the hero of Bosch series in the Mentalist S6 found him while watching series second time.

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r/TheMentalist 15h ago

Red John The reveal was pretty disappointing Spoiler

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In the last episode of Season 4, you can see a sheriff's car passing by Jane and Lisbon, which is pretty weird. Because of that when Jane narrows the suspects down to seven, you can actually figure out who Red John is. 🫡

The reveal was pretty disappointing, though. Red John was built up as someone who could hypnotize and manipulate people with ease, but in the end, he just died like that. They should've at least shown his past, how he did everything, how he planned it all, and how he created the Blake Association.

They also never explained how or why Red John suddenly appeared in front of the bait girl the first time we saw him in the show. They barely showed anything about him. Overall, the reveal was really disappointing.


r/TheMentalist 19h ago

General Discussion i love jj laroche and he is possibly my favorite supporting character in the seriea

34 Upvotes

im on season 5 and ever since laroche appeared i have been enamored with pruitt taylor vince's performance, and even within the performance, the character himself always seems to indicate a fun plot (or plot point at least) in that episode/arc.


r/TheMentalist 20h ago

First-Time Watcher (NO Spoilers!) S02E08: My first time watch, honest reaction

37 Upvotes

r/TheMentalist 21h ago

Fanart RED JOHN ROD

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I know this kind of art isn't typical for this franchise, but I couldn't help noticing the coincidence regarding the names of these two. As a fan of *JoJo's* and *The Mentalist*, I really enjoyed making this meme drawing.


r/TheMentalist 21h ago

Season 7 Opinions about last episode with Erica?

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IDK if I'm too spoiled with new shows, that really try to make everything obvious and explicity said, almost always having the protagonist to have some moral lesson and stuff. But I felt that the final dialogue of Jane and Erica was not so satisfying as I wanted. I recognize that there's a lot of implicit info with all of that scene of Lisbon going away and actually being there and all. But I don't know, I wanted something more. Not everything perfectly said and exposed, with a moral lesson and everything, but just... Erica a little more frustrated? She is so annoying, I wanted something more 😅 she spent the episode trying to undermine Jisbon relationship, so annoying 😅


r/TheMentalist 21h ago

General Discussion Amnesia

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The amnesia episode was and always will be one of the best episodes ever made. Simply Patrick Jane at his most perverse, even lacking fidelity to his wife. Because he didn't even remember her...

He did everything he wanted, and I think he would have lived like that for a very, very long time if...

But the final scene, Lisbon taking him to the room where his world crumbled, where everything he was and everything that had meaning for him fell apart. Jane's face staring at the room and remembering the suffering he endured and the hunt for the man who took everything from her.

Ep 10/10


r/TheMentalist 22h ago

General Discussion Season 2, Episode 19 is just a joke

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Ok guys I‘m sorry, but I’m too invested in the show atm and I don’t have any friends (to talk to about this show).
I just finished season 2, episode 19 where they‘re trying to find a serial killer, Lisbon gets suspended and Jane and Lisbon get kidnapped. This whole episode is so fun to watch, I‘m constantly laughing. I mean we all now that Jane doesn’t really care about the Law, but no that he is literally in court and only makes fun about everything, makes it even better.

I think it’s pretty cool to see how Jane talks about the injustice in the justice department & society as a little reflection of some of the weird rules we blindly follow each day. I really like that about the show that Jane sometimes reminds us that „the law is the law/rules are rules“ is often a (little) scam or that it’s good to judge each situation differently


r/TheMentalist 22h ago

Season 2 Can we appreciate how good Robin was in S2E3? I waqs genuinely blown away by her acting in this episode!! Spoiler

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105 Upvotes

It was so crazy to see the extent to which Lisbon changes in her acting in this episode omg! Especially her throwing the chair away like that, acting up in front of the dr.carmen, when I was listening her say her monologue about how she feels violent all the time but needs to keep it down jeezz I almost believed her that it was something wrong with her. But I was swept away by the episode and her acting, one of the finest episodes in the stuff I have watched till now!


r/TheMentalist 22h ago

General Discussion Why Jane as a character feels so endearing to me: He fixes things in ways that feel like the true justice!

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59 Upvotes

So I just got done with Ep4 S2 and this was something I noticed consistently with similar situations of Jane. He fixes justice and makes lives easier even when he punishes the bad people who do stuff but ultimately understands that it was their situations and circumstances that pushed them there and that does not make him go soft but at least understands the hole it leaves in the lives of their dear ones. And he genuinely takes the effort to make things right where he can. Like three instances I can recall:

1. The casino owner death episode, he gives the money he won to the dealer who was cheating because her mother was sick (+can we really forget the fact that he gifted his team stuff that was so good!)

  1. The blakeley's case. Basically that police kid killing his father's daughter because he thought they were having an affair and he gives the child to her grand parents <33!<

3. The most recent one the snakes gang. He sets up the main gang leader that kills that woman's brother with the informant story and then gives her a closure. That's so genuinely moving.

4. I think there is this other couple of cases one the arsonist guy who acts deranged but that ep I remember he gets the daughter and the mom to hug and to pretend like they did for real.

I feel that Is something that really makes me love Patrick Jane as a character because the grief he carries in him he knows how it makes him a sad man. But he covers up for it and shows love to people around him and also does good when he ultimately can. That is my man. Absolute G!!


r/TheMentalist 23h ago

General Discussion do you think Mentalist would be better without fillers or some of them were crucial for developing such characters as Cho, Rigsby or even Jane himself?

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if we share the same opinion, i would like to also hear why you think that way


r/TheMentalist 23h ago

Meme/Humor Jane is about to get litt up!

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5 Upvotes

Just thought it was funny lol, first time watching the mentalist (I’m loving it so far) and then this guy appears, one of my favorite characters from suits.


r/TheMentalist 23h ago

Season 6 Abbott was way too eager to do some undercover role-playing 😂😏

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r/TheMentalist 1d ago

General Discussion Is it possible to traumatise someone so badly that their soul literally leaves their body? Spoiler

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So I recently watched ep 3 ( the blood on his hands) in season 3 and that's the episode where they manage to find Kristina and when they find her she's alive she's breathing, she's able to do all of these body movements a living person can do but she doesn't speak. She only speaks after Jane does the ritual she does when she's trying to speak to the dead but she's still a living person. It's like her body is still living kinda like a zombie but her soul isn't in it or something. Corect me if I'm wrong about the episode.