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Mental: Season 1
  • Network: FOX
  • Series Premiere Date: May 26, 2009
  • Season #: 1
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Metascore
40 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 18 Critics What's this?

User Score
6.0 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 39 Ratings

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  • Summary: Chris Vance is Dr. Jack Gallagher, the nonconformist new director of the psychiatric section of a Los Angeles hospital.
  • Genre(s): Drama

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 18
  3. Negative: 7 out of 18
  1. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Linda Stasi
    63
    You don't have to be nuts to love Mental, which is a kind of schizophrenic "House"--but you do have to be willing to suspend disbelief to the point of, well, insanity.
  2. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: David Hinckley
    60
    Mental doesn't blow in with quite as fresh a breeze as "House." But it could get up into that division.
  3. PopMatters
    Reviewed by: Cynthia Fuchs
    30
    Jack delivers to every brilliant-offbeat doctor expectation, which means that for all his hyper-performative charms, Jack is also tedious, right down to the zipper in his forehead that marks commercial breaks.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 23
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 23
  3. Negative: 7 out of 23
  1. Dr.G.
    10
    For years I've been turning OFF the TV Give us more of this and we will tune in.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  2. HarryK
    5
    Chris Vance's Dr. Gallagher is a great. Veronica (Jacqueline McKenzie) seems possibly even more promising. The other two female leads and Nick Gonzalez are certainly adequate. And that's pretty much where the positives end. The dialog is mediocre and the direction and production values are laughably bad considering this is a Primetime FOX Drama. As compelling as Vance & McKenzie are, there's no way they'll be able to carry the show long-term unless the direction, dialog and production values are bettered dramatically. That said, the cast as a whole is nowhere near the quality of some of the other quirky character-driven shows, like NBC's "Life," which had an entire cast equal to or better than Vance. Also FOX's own "Lie To Me" also puts "Mental" to shame in most areas.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. JayS
    3
    House lite with a little jump the shark plot.And right from the start.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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