It’s the Upfronts?: The Mentalist
Happy Friday everyone. You made it.
What are you doing? I’m probably going to go out and get my burrito on — and then play it by ear. I went out last night too, to a big gay party at a bar. None of the boys seemed to be interested, but several lesbians complimented me on my tie. True story.
Oh right. TV blog.
So there’s this show coming to CBS this fall called The Mentalist. It stars Simon Baker who you’ll probably recognize, but not realize where he’s from (the only thing I remember is that white-guy-falls-in-love-with-black-woman-and-causes-a-hubbub movie — whatever that was called). Anyway, he’s all handsome and whatnot. And then there’s Robin Tunney, who you might recognize as the suicidey, bald girl from Empire Records or the main girl from The Craft.
Anyway, the show is a procedural where the private investigator isn’t exactly psychic, but just has supa-acute powers of observation. It looks tolerable and forgettable, just like all of these types of shows.
There is this one crazy part in the preview, though, that I can’t believe made it through the entire way to the trailer. And was never cut at any point. During one of the PI’s astonishing revelations, he deduces that one of the corpses on the slab at the morgue is a gay man by noticing that he was wearing clear toenail polish. It’s an astonishingly brazen and casual remark made by, presumably, a resoundingly heterosexual character.
Is anyone else a little off-put by this? Not offended really. But if “seriously, CBS?” were an emotion, that’s what I’d be feeling.
10 comments August 22nd, 2008