The Week in Entertainment

TV: The Mentalist - season finale, Jane's darkness and despair breaking through. And my goodness, Jane's reaction to shooting Hardy, to shooting anyone and then to shooting that person ... So well done. A Life Less Ordinary, a peculiar hybrid of a film. I really enjoyed the Ewan McGregor-Cameron Diaz screwball comedy/romance, but could have done without the whole "angel cops" angle. And it's not the angels angle - some good movies have been made with angelic intervention as a major plot point. It's just that this time it was really unclear what the point was, especially when the angels turned into bounty hunters. But if you like McGregor or Diaz, it's a pleasant two hours. Primeval - Helen's back, of course. (We actually knew that last week, but now Cutter does.) Good thing that cop quit his job; he really wasn't suited for it. That had to be a future critter, too.

Read: Alexandria, the latest in Lindsay Davis's brilliant and entertaining Falco series. This time's Falco's in, yes, Alexandria, investigating a murder at the Library, climbing the Pharos, chasing crocodiles in the Zoo, and even ducking out to Giza so Helena can mark off another Wonder of the World... Great fun, as always. Haunting Bombay, a first novel by Shilpa Agarwal, about a troubled family in 1960 Bombay. Very good, and it didn't go where I thought it was. Borderline by Nevada Barr - Anna's in a new park and in trouble. It's good, and it too doesn't end exactly where I thought it would (and whew am I glad).