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  • FOX
  • May 26, 2009
  • FOX
  • May 26, 2009
Mental

Summary This is the first co-production of Fox International Channels (FIC) and Fox Television Studios (FtvS). It's also the first U.S. English-language drama to be shot by Fox Telecolombia in Bogotá, Colombia. Mental is a drama that explores the complexity of the human brain like never seen before. Every week there is a different patient with ...

  • FOX
  • May 26, 2009
  • FOX
  • May 26, 2009
Mental
Season 1
Season Premiere: May 26, 2009
Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 18 Critic Reviews
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Summary This is the first co-production of Fox International Channels (FIC) and Fox Television Studios (FtvS). It's also the first U.S. English-language drama to be shot by Fox Telecolombia in Bogotá, Colombia. Mental is a drama that explores the complexity of the human brain like never seen before. Every week there is a different patient with ...

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Season Episodes

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Episode 1 • May 26, 2009 • 44 m
Pilot
There's trouble in the psych ward when Dr. Jack Gallagher takes the reins.
Episode 2 • Jun 2, 2009 • 43 m
A Beautiful Delusion
Dr. Jack Gallagher treats a delusional husband and wife.
Episode 3 • Jun 9, 2009 • 43 m
Book of Judges
The famous writer Gideon Graham was struck by a lightning, and since then he is catatonic. Gallagher tries new methods to bring the patient to reality again. Meanwhile, Suarez have to pay for past decisions.
Episode 4 • Jun 16, 2009 • 43 m
Manic at the Disco
Jack treats a young boy who is consumed with a video game that exists only in his head.
Episode 5 • Jun 23, 2009 • 43 m
Roles of Engagement
The team encounters a movie star who suffered a psychotic breakdown on national television.
Episode 6 • Jul 3, 2009 • 43 m
Rainy Days
Jack testifies in court on behalf of a patient.
Episode 7 • Jul 10, 2009 • 43 m
Obsessively Yours
Jack and Veronica try to dissuade a patient from having a risky brain surgery.
Episode 8 • Jul 17, 2009 • 43 m
House of Mirrors
Dr. Gallagher treats a teen with a dark secret.
Episode 9 • Jul 24, 2009 • 43 m
Coda
An autistic girl is the only witness to her father's murder.
Episode 10 • Jul 31, 2009 • 44 m
Do Over
Jack must connect the past to the present to help a patient find peace of mind.
Episode 11 • Aug 7, 2009 • 43 m
Lines in the Sand
Jack's troubled sister returns and the team treats a traumatized war veteran.
Episode 12 • Aug 14, 2009 • 43 m
Life and Limb
Things are in limb-o and Jack and the team are taken hostage.
Episode 13 • Aug 14, 2009 • 43 m
Bad Moon Rising
A patient who thinks he is a werewolf takes the doctors hostage.

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 18 Critic Reviews
39
6% Positive
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56% Mixed
10 Reviews
39% Negative
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Generally Unfavorable Based on 18 Critic Reviews
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6% Positive
1 Review
56% Mixed
10 Reviews
39% Negative
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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.
By Linda Stasi FULL REVIEW
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.
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40
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.
By Alan Sepinwall FULL REVIEW
40
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.
By Rob Owen FULL REVIEW
30
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.
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30
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.
By Alessandra Stanley FULL REVIEW
30
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.
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