Mental – Do Over

Posted by Linda on August 16, 2009 under Tv World | Be the First to Comment

Jack and Carl take on the case of Billy Bauer, a construction worker suffering from physiological and psychological symptoms following an on-the-job accident. As Jack investigates the circumstances surrounding Billy’s accident, he discovers Billy’s memory of the event and reality of the event are completely different, though his symptoms resonate with a more severe incident that occurred on the same site over 100 years prior. As Jack and Carl spar over Billy’s diagnosis, Veronica and Rylan’s relationship is jeopardized when Rylan makes a questionable decision on the job. Meanwhile, Jack continues to search for his missing sister and the lines between dreams and reality are blurred in the “Do Over” episode of MENTAL airing Friday, July 31 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (MEN-110) (TV-14 L, S)

Guest Cast: Trevor Morgan as Billy Bauer; Brett Rickaby as Ethan Calloway; Amanda Douge as Becky Gallagher; Billy Mayo as Quentin Morris; Christopher Grove as Dr. Ira Greenbaum; David Parker as Tom Hurst; Sarah Jaye as Annie Jastrow; K Callan as Alexis Vilcek; Bahni Turpin as Louisa Knox

Poor man, Ethan, Woman Employee’s patient in this episode. So lost, clutching that radio, how do you get so obsessed with one thing, that you let everything else go?

Don’t we all know somebody like that? Not in the crazy way that Ethan is but on a smaller scale. You know “No, I just have to check Facebook, one second, somebody might have updated! I don’t care that there is a murderer in our living room, I have to check Facebook first!”.

Even if you don’t know someone obsessed with a social networking site or similar to that (although highly unlikely, considering today’s society) think of when a person falls in love and they spend all of their time with that person, just letting everything else go.

That behavior is completely accepted and understood amongst us normal people, but if you think about it, it isn’t that great a leap between falling in love, being addicted, to anything really and not being able to let go of a radio.

Maybe it was because of the easiness of using Ethan as a metaphor for contemporary phenomenon that caused me to be really emotional when he went home, I almost started crying when he talked to Woman Employee as he left.

I felt it was great that ER guy packed up and left, very brave thing to do. Concerning his relationship with Woman Employee I think he will be way better off with somebody else, he was the other man, he deserves to be the first and only man for somebody.

We finally get to see the sister and I think it was an excellent choice of actress, she is perfect, couldn’t have been better picked.

I enjoyed the battle between Annoying boss and New Boss. It was like they were comparing and competing over who has the best of a curtain body part. Yes I mean the brain (not really…more south).

I liked that New Boss stood up for himself and threatened Annoying Boss for a change.

Annoying Boss has a family? Wife and two daughters, I feel really bad for them, poor, poor people.

The main story line was not too good and not too bad so I think I will forget about this episode really quickly. I do know that the sequence of the dream where he looks in the water barrel was creepy, horror film, creepy.

Another thing I can say is that I was surprised they all sort of believed in reincarnation, they are suppose to be scientists, doctors, academics and they secretly agree upon the problem being the boy’s past life was sipping threw in to his present life?

I can also say that I liked that there was some detective work in this episode, I like it when that happens on this show.

It was also scary that you can bleed so much with the cause being your mind.

And finally: Awesome old lady!!

Dum, dum, dum: cliffhanger! Is New Boss dreaming or is his sister really there? Good cliffhanger! I realized also in that scene that I like his apartment, don’t know why I haven’t noticed that before.