I so agree with you about The Mentalist.

The deck is stacked in his favor, so there isn’t any way that the rest of the team can succeed on their own because the writers won’t let them. It’s bloody annoying,

I think about it all the time when I'm watching the episodes. Sometimes I wonder how the hell Lisbon become a senior agent when she never understands who's the killer without Jane's help. It's more than annoying, it's hard to believe.