Mental… A crazy drama

Mental Promo

This summer, FOX tries to have a good grip on its audience with an insane project… a medical mystery drama. “Mental” fallows Dr. Jack Gallagher, “a radically unorthodox psychiatrist”, from the moment when he becomes Director of Mental Health Services at Wharton Memorial Hospital in Los Angeles. Frequently using questionable methods, he struggles to solve even the most puzzling cases. Dr. Gallagher deals with patients who, both literally and metaphorically speaking, wrestle with the unknown.
As if that weren’t enough, not once or twice, they are misunderstood and misdiagnosed. In time, Dr. Jack Gallagher developed the mysterious ability to read the patients like a book and see the way they perceive reality. Thus and so, he has the possibility to put his finger on the key to their long term recovery.

By using his strange methods of treatment, Dr. Gallagher comes to loggerheads with his boss Nora, who had a relationship with him. The impediments don’t perish here… He has to deal with Veronica, an ambitious and sexy psychiatrist who is his rival in the hospital and Carl, an attending with an image as pure as a lily, but who hides a deep hate for Jack. In addition to these hostile colleagues, the team includes Arturo, a junior resident addicted to women, and Chloe, a young doctor whose sexual orientation makes her immune to Arturo’s approaches.

Mental Promo 2

No matter how much we try to dissemble the fact that “Mental” borrowed some details from “House M.D.”, it stares us in the face. The exceptionally complex and subtle diagnoses, unorthodox methods and the conflicts with the female boss which make the feast on “House M.D.” appear also in “Mental”… This doesn’t necessarily mean that the show is a parody. You should give it a chance and watch it…
Follow the doctors as they delve into the mysteries, oddities and wonders of the human brain!

It might pleasantly surprise you…

“Mental” is executive produced by Deborah Joy LeVine (the creator of “Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman”, “The Division” and executive producer of “Any Day Now”, “Dawson’s Creek” and “Early Edition”) and Dan LeVine, her brother and writing/producing partner…

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