Perception

As we all know there is a giant TV blender where a bundle of shows are thrown in, the machine is started up, and we see what sort of smoothie comes out. I think we have just discovered what happens when you throw The Mentalist, House, Castle, Monk, and Lie to Me in the blender you get Perception.

Perception stars Eric McCormack, yes him off of Will and Grace, as Dr Daniel Pierce a brilliant but, wouldn't you know it, troubled neuro-psychiatrist (I don't know what that is either) As with all of these shows Pierce is also a mass of eccentricities, he is so quirky he listens to classical cassettes on his Walkman, I told you he was quirky. That said, there was a couple of neat character twists that I won't give away here.

Rachael Leigh Cook plays Special Agent Kate Moretti, the attractive, trouser suit wearing, anchor character this type of show needs. Because when Dr. Pierce isn't lecturing on whatever it is he lectures on, he moonlights for the FBI in the sort of cases the dullard local police force just can't cope with. So Moretti is there to make sure his oh so brilliant brain is focused on the problem at hand, we all know how distracted these TV genius types can get.

The plot, of the pilot, was right out of The Mentalist, with all the expected unexpected twists and turns. Never that engaging, but never that boring, which sort of sums up Perception really. 

I'm not sure what shows were thrown in the TV blender to concoct Elementary, which it makes its debut later this month, but I'd hazard a guess Perception was probably one of them.

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