• Network: FOX
  • Series Premiere Date: May 26, 2009
  • Season #: 1
Mental Image
Metascore

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

User Score

Mixed or average reviews- based on 39 Ratings

  • Summary: Chris Vance is Dr. Jack Gallagher, the nonconformist new director of the psychiatric section of a Los Angeles hospital.
  • Genre(s): Drama, Health & Lifestyle
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 18
  2. Negative: 7 out of 18
  1. 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. Mental doesn't blow in with quite as fresh a breeze as "House." But it could get up into that division.
  3. Reviewed by: Paige Wiser
    50
    Gallagher's played by Chris Vance ("Prison Break"), who tries to overcome the cheesy script with a British accent and a little dignity. He fails.
  4. 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. 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.
  2. DianaC
    8
    I don't watch a lot of TV but I like this show. The doctor and hospital shows are tired. This is refreshing and fascinating for those who have an interest in psychology and the workings of the mind. Expand
  3. marlac
    7
    Very good show for TV - love chris vance ! slightly different fare for TV.
  4. RandylK
    4
    Isn't anyone bothered by the sound effects in the segue clip going into commercials? What does the elevator ding have to do with anything on the show other than the very sick joke of "their elevator doesn't go all of the way to the top". Expand

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