The Mentalist

TV Show • 2008 • Crime  

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Patrick Jane, a former celebrity psychic medium, uses his razor sharp skills of observation and expertise at "reading" people to solve serious crimes with the California Bureau of Investigation.
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Does the dog die?
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Tschlompf
In S6 E9, a dog dies because of a drug dealer.
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Does a pet die?
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Were animals harmed in the making?
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Is a minor sexualized?
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Is an animal abandoned?
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Are rabbits harmed?
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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Abuse
Are there abusive parents?
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Is someone stalked?
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ActuallyAshlee
Many cases involve stalking.
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Is there domestic violence?
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Is someone gaslighted?
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Is a child abused?
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wallflowers
Multiple of the cases’ victims were abused. Additionally, multiple main characters reference being abused by their fathers (Jane, Lisbon, Rigsby)
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Addiction
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S1E13 lines snorted on screen
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Is there addiction?
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Animal
Does a horse die?
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
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S03E01: At the crime scene in the beginning, there's dead mouse in the gutter.

S0411: An image of a pig's head with a knife stabbed into it is shown several times

S05E13: A pig gets shot about 36 minutes in.
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Are animals abused?
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hellohello
In S01E10 there's a lab with a chimp locked in a cage.
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SLPL
Season 5 Episode 13 pig is killed (very quick)
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Does a cat die?
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In S2E12, there's a brief mention of a brown tabby that passed away.
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Does a dragon die?
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Are there spiders?
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KatieA
One episode in the early 6th season there is a spider seen on a wall for a brief moment until it crawls behind a chair.
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Are there snakes?
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Are there bugs?
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The episode Red tooth and claw that includes bugs eating a dead body.
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Assault
Is someone drugged?
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Is there pedophilia?
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Is someone held under water?
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Is rape mentioned?
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Is someone restrained?
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Aferry377
It's mentioned that victims were sexually assaulted before being murdered but is never shown.
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Is someone's mouth covered?
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
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S1
hand is cut off
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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Is there cannibalism?
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Is someone choked?
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Viewer789
BIG SPOILER FOR SEASON 3!!!


Todd Johnson is burned alive in an interrogation room by the mole in the CBI after Red John realizes Todd knows too much about him. It comes out of nowhere but is shown from a distance and only for a couple seconds. Just know that when Patrick walks to the interrogation room to speak with Todd, as he opens the door, he sees Todd running around on fire. He survives the incident and is later visited in the hospital by Patrick. Todd, while in a full body cast, suddenly wakes up and turns towards Patrick, says a few important words and then his heart stops. Definitely sent chills down my back
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DefinitelyNotACat
S4E23 Someone is buried alive and we can hear him panic via video baby monitor until he confesses to a crime. He does get un-buried but that's not shown.
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Is there amputation?
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Does a head get squashed?
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Is there a hanging?
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JJbean
Season 4 episode 11 and season 6 episode 6
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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Does someone become unconscious?
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Does someone break a bone?
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Are any teeth damaged?
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KatieA
A pedophile has a finger cut off.
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Aferry377
A few times. A character is handcuffed to a pole and repeatedly tazed. Another character is tied to a chair and beaten for information. Another character is tied to a chair and then his finger is cut off. It cuts away before the actual cut is shown.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Is someone stabbed?
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wallflowers
No, but as it is a crime show they do not shy away from blood
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Children
Does a kid die?
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ActuallyAshlee
The main character’s daughter is killed prior to the start of the show. It is frequently mentioned, along with many other cases of murdered children.
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Death
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S7
 E10
Vega dies from a gunshot wound.
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Does someone die?
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Disability
Is the r-slur used?
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Anonymous
S1E9
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Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
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Family
Does a family member die?
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Does a parent die?
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ActuallyAshlee
Many parents die throughout the show. Notably the main character’s wife and daughter are killed prior to the start of the show.
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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ActuallyAshlee
Many episodes involve murder victims or other characters being kidnapped.
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Does someone cheat?
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Fear
Are there ghosts?
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Aferry377
A psychic conducts a seance to contact a ghost but the actual contact is faked.
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Are there jump scares?
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Is there a shower scene?
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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Are there clowns?
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Is someone possessed?
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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Elliewolstenholme1
Could someone comment with times?
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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Does someone spit?
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AnyPamonha
5th season, dont remember the episode, a man spits in Wayne
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Is there audio gore?
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Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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Is there incarceration?
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Medical
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Aferry377
(SPOILER) Jane pretends to be an alcoholic and undergoes electric shock therapy.
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AnyPamonha
Def yes someone is trying to drug Jane
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Anonymous
S1E10 note that there are flashbacks to a romantic scene between a patient and a psychiatrist.
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Is there a hospital scene?
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S1E17
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Mental Health
Does someone self harm?
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S1
 E9
The r-slur is used to describe a character who appears to have an intellectual disability.
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AnyPamonha
In a bank robbery the woman get really nervous
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S4E23 Jane locks a suspect in a coffin to get him to confess, we see him panicking
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S3
 E18
A character is ill and only has a month left to live. They ask Patrick Jane to sit there while they die by suicide (pills) so that an autopsy isn't done. Very powerful scene, I suggest skipping the end scene after Rigsby speaks to Van Pelt.
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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Noxious
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KatieA
There are brief moments during episodes throughout the series. Not bad though.
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Is there screaming?
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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Pregnancy
Does someone miscarry?
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Is there childbirth?
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Are there abortions?
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Does a pregnant person die?
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Prejudice
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S1.E9 includes a character that is described as “slow” and other ableist terms.
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Are there usages of the n-word?
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ActuallyAshlee
Several murder victims are LGBT+
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Anonymous
S1E12
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Does the black guy die first?
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Relationships
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Anonymous
S1E3 statutory rape is a plot point.
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Sex
Is there bestiality?
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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PortalRunner94
The pilot episode mentions a man who killed his daughter because she refused to have sex with him anymore. It is not described in detail.
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Is there sexual content?
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Sickness
Is someone terminally ill?
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Spoiler
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Anonymous
S3E10
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Does it have a sad ending?
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Vehicular
Does a car honk or tires screech?
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Does a car crash?
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AnyPamonha
At least one per season
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Does a plane crash?
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PortalRunner94
S1.E7 - The murder victim was killed by being hit by a car.
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Violence
Does someone drown?
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ActuallyAshlee
Many instances of deaths by drowning throughout
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Is there blood/gore?
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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Is there gun violence?
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