The Mentalist follows Patrick Jane, a consultant for the California Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Senior Agent Teresa Lisbon, Agents Wayne Rigsby, Kimball Cho and Grace Van Pelt. Although not an Agent, Patrick uses the skills he acquired from his former career as a successful psychic medium to help the team solve various crimes.
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True Blood and Southern Vampire Mysteries Master list (AKA: The Newbie Guide)

Based on the The Southern Vampire Mysteries, a series of novels by Charlaine Harris that details the co-existence of vampires and humans in Bon Temps, a fictional small Louisiana town. The series centers on Sookie Stackhouse (played by Anna Paquin), a telepathic waitress ( Read more... )

LIFE UNEXPECTED is a coming-of-age family drama that centers around 16-year-old Lux, who was given up for adoption at birth but never adopted. When she is put back into the custody of her estranged-since-high-school birth parents, radio show host Cate and bartender Baze, the three form an unlikely family, complicated by the fact that Cate is ( Read more... )

Running from 1987 to 1994, Star Trek: The Next Generation followed in the original Star Trek’s footsteps with the mission of exploring new worlds and seeking out new civilisations, while importantly going where no man has gone before. Based 70 years after the original show, Star Trek: The Next Generation introduced many characters that soon became ( Read more... )

LEGEND OF THE SEEKER NEWBIE GUIDE
The story takes place in the world author Terry Goodkind created in his The Sword of Truth fantasy novel series. The three main provinces are Westland, the Midlands and D'Hara. Westland is separated from the Midlands by a magical boundary, which was created to prevent any magic from entering Westland. On the other ( Read more... )

FBI agent Olivia Dunham and Peter Bishop are faced with a rapidly spreading unexplained phenomenon of the threatening kind. In an attempt to stop the spread, they enlist the assistance of Bishop's estranged father, the institutionalized scientist Dr. Walter Bishop.

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Twilight is a series of young adult novels by Stephenie Meyer as told from her character's, Bella's, point of view. Bella moves from Phoenix, Arizona to rainy Forks, Washington to give her life a change of pace. She gets more than she bargains for in the form of Edward Cullen, beautiful, intelligent, and sparkly. Bella discovers that Edward and his ( Read more... )

RiptideRiptide is a TV show set in King Harbor, Southern California, about the exploits of three private detectives who live and work together on the cabin cruiser which gives the show its name ( Read more... )

Running from 1993 to 1999, Deep Space Nine was set upon a Space station of the same name, under joint control of the Bajoran Government and the Federation. Defending the wormhole containing the Bajoran Prophets and the way to the Gamma Quadrant, DS9 had a slightly darker theme than the Star Trek shows that came before and after, with a long term ( Read more... )

A guide to Primeval on LivejournalPrimeval is a British TV show that first aired in 2007. It centres around the discovery of “anomalies”, rips in the fabric of time and space, that allow creatures such as dinosaurs from the past, as well as creatures from the future to appear in the present. Naturally this causes all sorts of problems and the show ( Read more... )