How The Mentalist Ruined Red John In A Single Episode
117K views · Aug 12, 2026 · People & Blogs
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@madisonmooneyham2041 · 1 month ago
The problem was that it was quick and anticlimactic after being built up the entire time.
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@Aryan-2190M · 1 month ago
I feel like Red John shouldn't have died in the same episode in which he was actually revealed and maybe after finding out his true identity Jane and him would play out a cat and mouse game (which they've been doing all along) but now with the revealed identity.... It would have been very interesting to see how RJ would use his connections and powers to prevent Jane from reaching and killing him and how Jane would use his intellect to get around it
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@EgonSupreme · 1 month ago
I think the actual problem is very simple: they already introduced a perfect Red John in "Strawberries and Cream," and therefore anything they did after that would be a disappointment.
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@joeseph4040 · 1 month ago
I don't hate the choice, I hate how it was all given away in 6x03 and, by entent, 5x22 with how RJ was framed in those two episodes. He stood out like a sore thumb in both.
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@swathedpyhton5296 · 1 month ago
I think I would be better if red john was more of a titel and the red john we saw was not the first and not the last
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@Jejeyyys · 4 weeks ago
The problem is that RJ figure was built up to be damn near a god, Stiles should have been RJ, he matched every single one of the boxes, not a random local police, it doesn’t make any sense
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@harshmanhv · 1 month ago
One really good message that I think it gave was that one may look a lot bigger from the shadows but when he comes to the light it really shows how normal human he is. It is the resources that make him look so big from the shadows
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@BarsimonR · 1 month ago
Nah, Red John should have been a Dexter or Lecter like villain...the man who died in that episode was incapable of building the Network in the first place
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@ImpocZsK · 1 month ago
The only problem is the aftermath, nothing more. It's weird to just cut off one of the most influental people in US, who controlls a multi-state spanning secret organization in just one episode and barely mention him again... No aftermath...
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@akncemkurt1900 · 1 month ago
First time i saw bob kirckland i thought he was red john he was perfect candidate imo and the first scene he had with jane was just perfect first encounter
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@bigmyke2008 · 2 weeks ago
It would have been amazing if all 7 were red John, and they explored the Blake society. It wasn’t one man Jane angered, it was a whole network of corruption in California law enforcement.
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@joaoclira · 1 month ago
Red John is the Lost of TV Serial Killers
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