When I first started watching this series I was very fond of it... but as episodes goes the series doesn't really evolve too much.
It does look like a derivative of Monk!
The guy has the perception of it... the difference in it is that in Monk, besides the fun it was too watch the phobia-guy solve the crimes, most of the crimes wasn't so obvious the how it happen, even though the reason was always way too clear.
But in the Mentalist, besides the very small fun scenes, it is very clear for ALL of us who is the killer, why and how!
WOW we are all mentalist!
I think the series had a good idea, but it doesn't know how to proceed with it... cause the way it is going, I am getting just boring!
Too bad!
I wanted to like it...