Ask Matt: The Mentalist

Question: When is The Mentalist going to get over Red John and move on? I like the show, but come on, we have been on this Red John dude for too long now. — Judy

Matt Roush: The best way to enjoy this current season of The Mentalist is to look at it almost as a miniseries, a Mentalist novel if you will: "The Search for Red John." Each episode has been building toward the big reveal, which is planned for later this month, when Red John's actual identity will be exposed. Can't say if that will be the end of the Red John story — I'd doubt it — but it should at least lay to rest the current mystery of who (if anyone) on the list is the fiend who has dogged Patrick Jane since before the very beginning of the series. At some point we should expect the show to return to a more traditional case-of-the-week format, but a lot depends on how the current story plays out.

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