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Welcome back Mentalistas! The final season of The Mentalist has begun in a very sweet way with Jane and Lisbon as a couple, and a classic Jane, always at his best with his mind tricks. As I previously anticipated, Nothing But Blue Skies opens two weeks later the event of the six season finale.
Jane and Lisbon have enjoyed their time together as a couple - he brings her coffee, she thinks about change her stuff in her house (out with the old and in with the new!), he late surprise her with an origami (a parallel with the Pilot). But there's one little problem: she wants to hide their relationship to their collegues, at least for the moment. Ironic how Abbott calls her on the phone and she denies about Jane's whereabouts in the same moment when their boss calls him searching for Lisbon. Looking at Jane's face he seems to scream: Hey, I want to say to everyone how much I love this woman next to me! If you think about Jane's past and how hard was for him to let himself free from his emotions, this is a big change. Now, he has the chance to say to the world he's ready to love again. On the other hand, Lisbon is not insecure. Maybe this is the first time she has a serious relationship and doesn't want to mix private and work life.
On the crime scene, Lisbon finds Cho first looking at a man being shot on the floor, after fallen off his cycle. Jane approaches next, eating and hugging his collegue, almost ignoring Lisbon - he's all lovely to everyone, too bad Cho still thinks Jane and Lisbon are like brother and sister. As much as they want to keep their relationship secret, you know Abbott is the only one to suspect the two of them. When Jane is missing, Lisbon is too. Go figure!
As you know, Emily Swallow left the series and the writers justified her departure with a transfer. Wylie gives Lisbon the message Kim Fischer left for her ending with a "Good luck with Jane." Beside Abbott, she's have known about the two lovebirds for a very long time.
Michelle Vega makes her first appearence as series regular and she surely catches Wylie's attention as she walks out the door. Jane's already got the type: good student, following the rules, and she can't understand how Jane's unusual plans work. It's worthless trying to explain because she needs to watch them live on the field. Despite her beauty look as the freshman college girl, Vega is a tough one and reminds me Grace Van Pelt. Plus, Cho's gonna be her mentor and I already like this.
Crime of the week involved an undercover agent name Geist. He saw something he wasn't supposed to see, so he got killed. Detective Ken Spackman joins the investigaton and his arrogance annoys Jane - especially since he bothers his girlfriend, Lisbon. Also, he doesn't approve Jane's methods. But even if Jane's in love, his classic methods to solve the cases can't be unnoticed. In order, to solve Geist's murder, they need to solve the kidnapping and the murder of a 12-year-old boy too. Two crimes committed by the same person: Mr Hunston. He kidnapped the boy, Geist recognized him, so he got killed. Also, Jane's abilities to read Tish's expression were priceless: only by moving his hand on a map and looking at her face, he was able to find the place where they hide the guns.
Marcus Pike. "He'll understand", said Lisbon in the season finale. "So it's you and her", he replied to Jane in the season premiere. I was impressed by Pike's still posture. No hurt feelings outside, he's calm while confronting Jane, till he asks the impossible question that, I think, it would be this season's subplot: what is Jane offering to Lisbon besides Patrick Jane? Does he have plans? Of course, Pike was a safe bet for Lisbon. He was willing to offer her everything in the world, but she left him for Jane. Later, Jane tells Lisbon about his chat with Pike. He has no plans, but they agree to live for the moment. And the last scene speaks for itself: he surprises her, again. He's offering himself to Lisbon, and I personally think Patrick Jane is enough for her right now.
What did you think about the seventh season premiere of The Mentalist? Did anyone noticed the Game of Thrones's reference with Pedro Pascal's hairstyle? Share your thoughts below.
On the crime scene, Lisbon finds Cho first looking at a man being shot on the floor, after fallen off his cycle. Jane approaches next, eating and hugging his collegue, almost ignoring Lisbon - he's all lovely to everyone, too bad Cho still thinks Jane and Lisbon are like brother and sister. As much as they want to keep their relationship secret, you know Abbott is the only one to suspect the two of them. When Jane is missing, Lisbon is too. Go figure!
Michelle Vega makes her first appearence as series regular and she surely catches Wylie's attention as she walks out the door. Jane's already got the type: good student, following the rules, and she can't understand how Jane's unusual plans work. It's worthless trying to explain because she needs to watch them live on the field. Despite her beauty look as the freshman college girl, Vega is a tough one and reminds me Grace Van Pelt. Plus, Cho's gonna be her mentor and I already like this.
Crime of the week involved an undercover agent name Geist. He saw something he wasn't supposed to see, so he got killed. Detective Ken Spackman joins the investigaton and his arrogance annoys Jane - especially since he bothers his girlfriend, Lisbon. Also, he doesn't approve Jane's methods. But even if Jane's in love, his classic methods to solve the cases can't be unnoticed. In order, to solve Geist's murder, they need to solve the kidnapping and the murder of a 12-year-old boy too. Two crimes committed by the same person: Mr Hunston. He kidnapped the boy, Geist recognized him, so he got killed. Also, Jane's abilities to read Tish's expression were priceless: only by moving his hand on a map and looking at her face, he was able to find the place where they hide the guns.
What did you think about the seventh season premiere of The Mentalist? Did anyone noticed the Game of Thrones's reference with Pedro Pascal's hairstyle? Share your thoughts below.
I was impressed. While I am of thr opinion the series should have ended with the Kiss. This was a very good episode. The rookie's introduction to Jane's powers was impressive. Pike's little alpha male jibe at Jayne implying that Lisbon will find "only Jayne" such a failure compared to what Pike had to offer was the last blow of a bitter defeated rival. Let us hope that it does not succeed in destroying the fragile love that Patrick is finally able to admit into his now unbroken heart.
ReplyDeleteGreat review :)
ReplyDeleteI have missed the Mentalist and was glad to be a part of Jane's world once more. I'll be sad when the series ends.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the article Diana, I always enjoy reading your thoughts on the show. I agree with everyone, they had a high bar after the end of season 6, but 7x1 was great, could not have been better!
ReplyDeleteI love the approach they are taking with Jane and Lisbon. Usually when a couple becomes canon they start to "overdo it" plus adding drama to keep things interesting to a point where the viewer kind of lose interest. But with Jane and Lisbon they are taking it slow. Yes they are in a relationship and yes they are fully committed but their scenes are so delicate and realistic that the viewer keeps wanting more of that. It's better than a steamy sex scene in my opinion!! It's that kind of hot and slow simmering romance that I love and it's always entertaining.
ReplyDeleteNice review. Really enjoyed the premiere. It was more of an old school Mentalist episode, which I particularly like, and generally loved the exchanges between Jane & Lisbon. Nice touch with the origami and the vintage car at the end..it's those little things that make a relationship special (and Jane has been doing those little things for Lisbon way before they got together).
ReplyDeleteI wonder how Lisbon's month off, which she would have gotten if she left, got shunk to two weeks.
ReplyDeleteAlso Jane didn't seem suprised, like Lisbon, that Fischer. Which shows that he spent some time at work during Lisbon's two weeks off. Though I'm suprised that he hadn't mentioned it if he had known.
Also I like how Heller has been saying how Lisbon and Jane are both private, and in the first scene it seems like Jane is willing to announce their relationship to the office. Which to most would be something a private person wouldn't do. Though they showed Jane's private said when he hesitated about telling Lisbon what he was thinking about doing when he was looking though the victims psycological file.
It's not a suprise that Lisbon wouldn't want to tell the office about her relationship with Jane since Lisbon has never liked mixing personal life with work, which she told Van Pelt back in season one when Van Pelt asked her if it felt werid since her mother had been killed by a drunk driver just like they mother of the girl they had just talked to. (I also mentioned how Lisbon didn't mix work with her personal life on here I believe after the episode when she was talking to Pike on the phone next to Jane and she hung up rather quikly.)
I took Pike's look as he's upset that he ll\ost what he wanted. Though that could be because I'm a guy and I never did see him as the nice guy they claimed him to be.
Definitely! Thanks for reading.
ReplyDeleteThanks for reading! Every little things can make a relationship special... that's Jane and Lisbon's.
ReplyDeleteHi Mark, welcome back. For what I remember, you once wrote Pike was a nice guy, the perfect match for Lisbon.
ReplyDeleteOh I love this review!
ReplyDeleteNothing But Blue Skies is so perfect, every scene in it is great, there are strong and sweet and awkward moments, everything is very natural, very gentle. It is The Mentalist as we've known it but now there IS a place for happiness. More smiles, more honesty... I just love it. So much.
Btw the chemistry between Simon and Robin is amazing. I have never seen anything like this before in other shows.
I think what worked so well till now was Simon and Robin's chemistry. Their friendship helped the show so much. Thanks for reading the review :)
ReplyDeleteI don't recall saying he was the perfect match for Lisbon, though I didn't like whole love triangle story line which has clouded my memory which could explain why I don't remember saying that.
ReplyDeleteI know that my hatred for the love triangle story line made me take the side of Jane and Lisbon not getting together, because I do remember having spirited debates with you and others on here on that subject.
But see I told you that I wasn't against Jane and Lisbon ending up together, still think they could have done with out the love triangle, but oh well.
I think Jane was going to advoid telling Lisbon what Pike said because if I recall there was a momentary studder or some type of hesitation, but then decided not to tell her. Most likely not only to be more open and honest with her because of their new relationship but because if he had advoided it then Lisbon would probably start to worry that whatever Pike had said to him was bad. (Since alot of what Jane tried to advoid to say in the past was bad.)
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