The Mentalist Season 2 Episode 20 - Red All Over
Date watched: 6/20/2015
My rating: 6/10
The count of times I have seen this at time of this review: 1st
Likelihood that I will watch this episode again: Uncertain
I classify this as a cop drama with the super expert twist (similar to Monk, Psych, and Sherlock)
A powerful media mogul is celebrating a promotion his son has received in his company, when he stumbles out and collapses dead...and murdered!
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This episode reminds me of the A&E production of Who Murdered Roger Akroyd, with David Suchet as Poirot. Perhaps it is because the murder weapon is a letter opener. In any event, that warms me a bit to the episode. In fact, Agatha Christie stories are pretty much my benchmark for mysteries and detection work (with the possible exception of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle).
For the first time in awhile, the suspect wasn't quite who I thought it was until later in the show. In fact, I called out a perky assistant as the murder when she appeared, but she never showed up again.
Jane throws down with a cultist leader, which appears promising for future interaction, and as a new recurring villain maybe? We don't have much of that currently, except for the elusive Red John. Anyone connected to Red John has been systematically eliminated.
Only Jane and Lisbon have big roles in this show. Lisbon saves a little girl (and herself) from being blown up by a bomb completely by luck. Speaking of luck, Jane lectures the media mogul (who also turns out to be the murderer) about luck. I seemed to me that the lines should have been reversed in that conversation - they were playing backgammon and the mogul rolls a 12. He claims that it was skill, and all in the wrist. As someone who does those kinds of things routinely, I found Jane's responses a bit out of character (and it wasn't really cleared up later in the episode as these kinds of things have been before). Only the slight of hand trick references to it, but I don't see a direct connection that was made.
The episode was entertaining enough. Jane gets slapped by an angry woman and the mogul gets brought down by a series of tricks.
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