Mental: Season 1

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FOX | Season Premiere Date: May 26, 2009

Starring: Edwin Hodge, Marisa Ramírez, Annabella Sciorra

Summary: Chris Vance is Dr. Jack Gallagher, the nonconformist new director of the psychiatric section of a Los Angeles hospital.

Creator: Deborah Joy LeVine and Daniel Levine and Dan Levine

Genre(s): Drama, Health & Lifestyle

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Season 1 Episodes

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S1:E13. Bad Moon Rising
Air Date: August 14, 2009
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S1:E12. Life and Limb
Air Date: August 14, 2009
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S1:E11. Lines in the Sand
Air Date: August 7, 2009

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Linda 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. Read full review

Paige 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. Read full review

Verne 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. Read full review

Alan 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. Read full review

Michael 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. Read full review

Glenn 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. Read full review

Randee 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. Read full review

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DeniseJ.

Aug 15, 2009

Yes, while it has a similar feel to it as "house" (Mind you house is a VERY successful show...) it is all the same fresh and EXCITING! Some scenes make you crack up while others bring emotional turmoil and torture to your soul. We are ALWAYS wondering however, what will happen next! I pray Yes, while it has a similar feel to it as "house" (Mind you house is a VERY successful show...) it is all the same fresh and EXCITING! Some scenes make you crack up while others bring emotional turmoil and torture to your soul. We are ALWAYS wondering however, what will happen next! I pray we will be blessed with a season 2 perhaps jack will find a way to open his own clinic and snag his previous co-workers/boss to join his team leaving the bay guy and his pharmaceutical company endorsers to fail terribly without a team who actually cares thus it's doors closing and referrals up the yang coming to Jacks team, lol.… Expand