Netflix viewers are staying up all night to binge The Mentalist, a crime drama they admit they "can't stop watching." The show has recently captured attention on the platform, with many users praising it as highly addictive.
Reddit users recommend The Mentalist
The buzz began on Reddit when a social media user asked for a series to binge all night. Suggestions quickly poured in, with The Mentalist emerging as a popular choice. One person replied: "The Mentalist." Another wrote: "With too much time on my hands I binged this show at an absolute record speed, so safe to say my thoughts were approximately eat, Mentalist, sleep, repeat. I didn't expect to love it this much."
A third commented: "Been binge-watching this since Monday. Can't stop watching. Currently watching season five, episode four." A fourth added: "I just finished binge-watching The Mentalist, and now I feel completely empty inside. Watching this show brought me a sense of comfort and peace that I hadn't felt in years. It was my safe space, my escape and, for the first time in so long, I found myself smiling without a reason. Now that it's over, I feel like I've lost a group of friends. The nostalgia is hitting hard, and I already miss everything about it. I can't wait to re-watch it again."
Plot and availability
The Mentalist is an American procedural drama television series that originally aired from September 23, 2008, until February 18, 2015, spanning seven seasons on CBS. The show follows Patrick Jane, an independent consultant working with the California Bureau of Investigation in Sacramento, California.
Despite holding no official law enforcement position, Jane uses skills from his former career as a self-confessedly fraudulent psychic medium to help CBI agents solve murder cases. His involvement is driven by a personal mission to track down the serial killer Red John, who murdered his wife, Angela Ruskin Jane, and his daughter, Charlotte Anne Jane. Classified as a crime drama and mystery thriller, every episode is now available to stream on Netflix.
