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Mental: The Complete First Season

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It is completely ridiculous when people compare this show to House because there is absolutely no comparison. Jack Gallagher is a psychologist who uses any unconventional method to try to heal a patient, even when he has his own demons.
I definitely recommend this show. Chris Vance gives an amazing performance as Dr. Gallagher, the cast has enough chemistry and the cases are very interesting to keep you watching and enjoying the craziness, and I'm not mocking.
Too bad the season was short. I really hope FOX brings it back. There is so much more to be explored.

This series shows promise. In its present incarnation it is roughly 3 stars but with work could make it to 4. The premise is psychiatry as practiced by a psychiatrist who is willing to try new and controversial methods in order to make a breakthrough with the seriously ill mental patient. For example, with a patient who thinks he is a werewolf, Gallagher has him bite him and then the two lie side by side waiting for the moon to come up. Gallagher has told the patient they will not change to werewolves and he is now in it with him to show him it is in his mind.

Dr. Jack Gallagher, the psychiatrist, is the whole show. Everyone else could be recast. In fact, you could put the whole show into an entirely different hospital and not miss a thing. When the show detoured into hospital politics and jockeying for position, it was not good. When it stuck with Gallagher, his methods and the patients, it was fine. The show wasted space with jockeying among various psychiatrists who wanted Gallagher's job. This is barely interesting in real life to non medical people, much less on a tv show.

Gallagher is obsessed with his mentally ill sister, Becky, who is AWOL in the world at large. This is somewhat resolved as the series goes on and this aspect can also be dumped without any loss to the show.

I bought this DVD at a lower price than listed now, and it was in perfect condition, packaged great, no complaints to be written.

And for $36 dollars that's not a very good deal. Most shows are about that much for twice as many episodes... Buy it off of itunes for less...

I didn't enjoy this new series and it will not remain in my DVD Library.

An obvious, cheap rip off of the TV series "House", this show devolves into caricature and shows a complete and total lack of understanding of what makes "House" so wonderful and unique. Especially horrible is the portrayal of professional women in a psychiatric setting... so totally inappropriate you can't help but cringe every time one of the bimbos simpers into a scene with her boobs hanging out. "Awful" is the only word for it. Pass this one by.