>>This starts over here on Thu and has been fanfared a lot as the top US show.
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>>Any good?
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>Only if you like it :)) There seems to be a new production technique that puts the emphasis on portentousness and the mentalist is part of that type (I don't care for the word genre so type will do)

Now let's see: we've done to death solving crimes by forensics (CSI ^3), we've done solving them by maths (Numb3rs), by archeology? (Bones? - I haven't seen that series). Now, um, um, what's left?

I KNOW! let's have someone who solves by astute observation!

Anyway, that's the impression I get.

But wait a minute! Wasn't that Sherlock Holmes's gig?