Don't Waste Valuable DVR Space for 'Mental' on FOX

I finally got around to watching Mental on my DVR. It's the new show from Fox that airs on Tuesday nights at 9pm. According to Marc Berman at PIfeedback.com, it finished third in it's hour with 5.8M viewers.

From the minute it opened I felt that there was something not really authentic about it. It was as if I was watching a B movie. If you've ever watched a B movie, you KNOW it's a B movie the minute you turn it on. The acting, not so believable, the camera angles seem amateurish (I'm not an expert, but it just seemed so.. well that is the best word I could come up with). It just seems contrived. It doesn't suck you in to something that seems "real".

When you watch a show that is good, like Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy & Brother's & Sisters, what pulls you in are the characters. They are well developed, well written. There is depth right from the beginning. There was absolutely no depth for me in this show.

It just didn't do it for me and I imagine that it will be quickly canceled, although there have been 13 episodes ordered. I believe one critic said that it was a "House" want to be in a mental hospital. That about sounds right. The only thing I liked about it was that the lead actor Chris Vance (Prison Break) was nice to look at.

Sorry Fox, this is one of the worst shows I've seen on TV in awhile. I may give it one more chance with the second episode, but it won't be one that I'll use valuable hard disk space on my DVR for.