My overall rating of "The mentalist"'s Season 1: 4/10.
In my first watchthrough of "The mentalist" I had quickly lost track of the episodes' names; of which were good and which were bad. I'd only remembered a few: "Red Tide" and "Ladies in Red" I had remembered as good; "Redwood" as incredibly boring... This time, I was less than impressed with "Red Tide" to say the least, and braced for "Ladies in Red" being as bad - however, the chemistry between Jane and the widow, and the incredibly powerful culmination dialogue shone through, the same as they did the last time. Brilliant acting there by the participants, very heartfelt. This episode had some really cool dialogues in general.
There were some scenes that I felt were somewhat badly done: Jane's trick scene in the car is horribly filmed (just look at where Jane's interlocutor is aiming!) and edited in a pointlessly cheating way, disallowing you to follow the trickster's hands, arguably the most interesting part of a trick. They could've done it in one take, and properly. Additionally there were the usual inconsistent and unnecessary placename subtitles, contrivances, some "humour" fell a bit flat (although certainly not all) and the shooting scene was quite strange.
In my first watchthrough of "The mentalist" I had quickly lost track of the episodes' names; of which were good and which were bad. I'd only remembered a few: "Red Tide" and "Ladies in Red" I had remembered as good; "Redwood" as incredibly boring... This time, I was less than impressed with "Red Tide" to say the least, and braced for "Ladies in Red" being as bad - however, the chemistry between Jane and the widow, and the incredibly powerful culmination dialogue shone through, the same as they did the last time. Brilliant acting there by the participants, very heartfelt. This episode had some really cool dialogues in general.
There were some scenes that I felt were somewhat badly done: Jane's trick scene in the car is horribly filmed (just look at where Jane's interlocutor is aiming!) and edited in a pointlessly cheating way, disallowing you to follow the trickster's hands, arguably the most interesting part of a trick. They could've done it in one take, and properly. Additionally there were the usual inconsistent and unnecessary placename subtitles, contrivances, some "humour" fell a bit flat (although certainly not all) and the shooting scene was quite strange.