The mentalist is about a man who pretends to be a psychic but ends up getting his wife and daughter killed by a serial killer.So he helps the investigation department to catch the serial killer with help of his mentalist powers
The role of mentalist is played by Simon Baker who was recently awarded as the trailblazer.
The series is definite hit as the cases shown on the show becomes really mysterious at times. Although the series is about mystery, murder, investigation, etc, it still has funny and comedy scenes in their collar.