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The Mentalist floats (or sinks) on the charms of its star, Simon Baker.

Flesh eaters from J.J. Abrams and bloodsuckers from Alan Ball. Oh my.

Steven Bochco’s Raising the Bar lowers it further.

If you were paying attention to the bonus episodes of Holly Hunter’s police-detective series in December, you now know that the biggest issue in Grace Hanadarko’s disorderly life was her childhood molestation by a Roman Catholic priest.

Kyra Sedgwick’s Brenda Johnson is back for another summer season at the Los Angeles Police Department.

You don’t have to be the least bit interested in which clandestine government agency decided that Michael Westen (Jeffrey Donovan) wasn’t worth his spy-craft cover story.

And shadowy detectives run amok across the cable dial.

From the folks who brought you The Wire, a Baghdad dystopia that’s bleaker than Baltimore.

Will this summer’s sexiest slam-bang drama make it out alive?

Yes, his mother perished in the Holocaust. Yes, his wife was murdered by the Manson gang.