Put Down The Remote!

Tuesday night's are usually ho-hum TV nights. There's not much to watch besides "I Eat 33,000 Calories a Day" on TLC for the 100th time, some special about tiny people (SHARON!), or extraordinarily large people (RUBY!). So if that's not your cup of tea, allow me to distract you for a moment and head over to CBS (this ain't you're momma's CBS) The only show worthy of watching tonight is on the Eyeball network...

Tune into The Mentalist. Simon Baker plays Patrick Jane, an ex-fake-psychic, turned consultant for the California Bureau of Investigation. The character uses his ability to read body language, and pick up on nonverbal cues of suspects to either exclude them, or prove that they are in fact guilty of the investigated crime (wow, that was a long time for me to not use parenthesis). Bottom line is the show is great, very intricate and smartly written. It moves along and always leaves me saying "wow, it's over already?" If you can't park it on the couch tonight and watch, make sure you set that DVR or check it out on CBS.com tomorrow.

The Mentalist is on CBS Tuesdays @9pm est