Mental

New York PostLinda Stasi

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.

New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley

Mental doesn't blow in with quite as fresh a breeze as "House." But it could get up into that division.

Chicago Sun-TimesPaige Wiser

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.

Entertainment WeeklyKen Tucker

Mental's plots are trite and secondary to establishing Gallagher as a policy-defying Brit who says ''Bang on!'' to express enthusiasm.

NewsdayVerne Gay

It is so numbingly derivative--effectively a dull mash-up of "House" and "Private Practice"--that you quickly forget it's also numbingly silly. But then, maybe that's the whole idea.

Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob Owen

If you're bereft without new episodes of "House" this summer and willing to settle for a pale imitation, there's always Fox's Mental.

Boston GlobeMatthew Gilbert

It's a stubbornly mediocre product that really, really, really wants to be "House" in a hospital psych ward.

The New YorkerNancy Franklin

Mental, a new drama on Fox, starting May 26th, is solidly mediocre; it’s not good, it’s not terrible, and there’s no reason for it to exist.

Washington PostTom Shales

The parts of the show that don't seem recycled from previous medical dramas seem recycled from previous crime dramas, with just a few changes of vernacular and gadgetry.

Newark Star-LedgerAlan Sepinwall

Mental was produced on a relative shoestring by Fox Telecolombia, and there's a flatness not only to the sets (which look not unlike what you might see on a Univision show), but the dialogue and characterizations.

Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen Gray

As TV dramas go, Mental is far from unwatchable. But unless you're spending the summer without cable, it's also probably unnecessary.

PopMattersCynthia Fuchs

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.

VarietyBrian Lowry

Despite some nebulous personal baggage involving a mysterious woman from his past, the character's simply not interesting enough to carry the show virtually alone.

Wall Street JournalMichael Judge

An early scene from this Tuesday’s premier of the new Fox series Mental, a drama about a psychiatric ward in a fictional Los Angeles hospital, is representative of the larger problems that plague this ill-conceived show.

The New York TimesAlessandra Stanley

The creators of Mental couldn’t take Gallagher any further up the mean-spirited scale, so instead they went too far in the other direction and ran smack into cliché.

Hollywood ReporterRandee Dawn

Ultimately, the problem is that while someone's used considerable brain power to put all these pieces together, they clearly just haven't thought things through.

Los Angeles TimesMary McNamara

If Mental sounds a lot like "House" or "The Mentalist" or whatever other foreign-born-actor-playing-a-haunted-man drama you can think of, well, it is. Only nowhere near as good.

Miami HeraldGlenn Garvin

On Tuesday night, we're going to see if you can get it from television, with three shows that--intentionally or otherwise--document seriously disturbed minds, with results ranging from riveting to revolting. Tending toward the latter is Mental.