>>>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)
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>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?

Mix! Just like, what I've heard, they have been doing the last few seasons of Friends (where nobody got involved with bartender's cat, but all other combinations were trotted in front of the cameras).

The guys getting wrong kinds of crimes. A CSI gets a crime which can be solved by psychological maths or summat, but they are a lab. The mathematician gets a dumb crime with lots of DNA and partial prints. The profilers get a crime en face. What can they do? This is where it becomes interesting... stay tuned.