The Mentalist (TV Series) Red Lacquer Nail Polish (2013) User Reviews

The Inheritance

[claudio_carvalho · 8/10 · 20 January 2022]

When the remains of the millionaire heiress Elise Vogelsong are found in her weird mansion, the CBI investigate the case. They investigate their suspects: her doctor Dr. Lance Reinhardt, who tells that she had dementia but has a strange past; her cousin, the artist Curtis Wiley and his wife Alex Wiley; and Cassie Robbins, who used to sail with Elise and says that she had not dementia and was over medicated. They also lean that Curtis was fighting in the justice for the control of a family foundation for veteran soldiers. Who might have killed the old socialite?

"Red Lacquer Nail Polish" is another good episode of "The Mentalist". The plot has many suspects with motive to kill Elise Vogelsong, and the conclusion might surprise some viewers. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): "Red Lacquer Nail Polish"

Undeveloped Episode That Adds Nothing To Overall Plot line

[jplaleman · 3 March 2013]

After watching Red Lacquer Nail Polish, the first thing I wanted to know was who directed it? I couldn't find one listed. During the showing, I felt like I was watching an old episode from Dragnet. The direction and camera work was choppy, static and uninteresting with quick cuts from one character to another with little attention given to reaction from others in the show. The dialog was dull and uninspiring. "Just the facts ma'am, just the facts."

Good actors played meaningless characters with no depth. The story was far too predictable with no surprising twist in the end and it added nothing to the overall Red John plot line. The scenario with Rigsby made him look pathetic and incompetent. The characters didn't seem to know what they were doing or why. None of Jane's special talents were used to solve the case. Lisbon was uncharacteristically out of touch even though the clues were obvious.

As a big fan of the show from the beginning, I was very disappointed. Even the title of the episode didn't connect with the story. I have to wonder if this one was just filler to complete the season's lineup? It felt thrown together.

I've actually solved this whodunnit! Shame it's a badly done one.

[yavermbizi · 1/10 · 20 January 2022]

My overall rating of "The mentalist"'s Season 5: 4/10.

There are some things about this episode that are quite interesting: I liked the characters - the husband and wife inheritors were especially cool; I liked how chock-full with valid suspects the episode was; and the initial idea for the setting seemed interesting enough - if maybe a bit of a re-tread of "Red Scare" (with even lamer dialogues). However, the idea didn't ever take shape quite fully and the writing was some of the worst imaginable: oh, the contrivances! Oh the plotholes! Just think how much of this episode is our hapless detectives rubberbanding between locations to ask one question each that they should've known the answer to within an hour of starting the investigation! Even detectives from Agatha Christie's novels, set in the first half of the XXth century, would've said: "Sod it, we'll call, we're not driving through California traffic for this one random question!"

But I did correctly guess whodunnit halfways through, and, well... It makes no sense, but it is fun, I guess, which unfortunately describes too much of "The mentalist".

One of the lowlights of the poor season 5

[supermaggie · 2/10 · 2 June 2021]

(Attention: massive spoilers ahead:) When I first watched the show - hooked by the intelligent dialogues - I somehow missed season five. After reading the disappointed reviews and finally watching season five myself I have to say: I did not miss anything. As always when Hollywood - and even til then wonderful writers - hit a lack of creativity (like when the Red John story came to a halt in season 5), the solution/marching order is: warm up old- not new, recent, relevant, but cliched, overcome, (now) inappropriate - enemies, and in 90% this means: dig up racism (you may call it "just" discrimination, but either way it is disgusting, hurtful, unjustified hate, slander) against Germans, as reflected in giving all the evil, creepy characters German (or rather mostly somehow German sounding) names, this happens throughout all seasons of the Mentalist (and most other crime shows), but cumulative in season 5, like I said, since it is the worst season and needed a boost, even if - as always - this depraved hate rarely works/improves anything (care for proof/some examples? Haibach, Schulz, Panzer, Deutsch, Wagner, of course Volker (in this case not even a real/common German family name but a first name), Wagner, Gottlieb, Wiehagen, and in this very episode: Reinhardt and Vogelsong (double points), and so on). The makers cannot even argue that it is an actual grievance and they need to set an example since there are many other nations with more contemporary grievances which they never slander. It's just ancient hateful propaganda hoping to get stick-in-the-mud hateful viewers to approve. No approval from decent people though. And if you want German (sounding) names to slander, how about Scherer, Heller, Appelbaum, Weiss, Ulrich, Hochman, Hochfeld and so on? It wouldn't matter much if it was a bad show from the beginning, but ruining one good show after another just for hate and to please a hateful audience for no justified reasons at all? Shame on you for ruining a good show(s) and insulting millions of innocent people again and again. At least it actually says more about the obsessive personality of the writers than their victims of the insulting attacks (and these are (uncalled for) hate crime attacks against an entire nation).