Speaking of The Mentalist, I thoroughly enjoyed Lie To Me, which has a somewhat similar premise. It was retarded if you thought about it even a little bit, basically all the bad guy in every episode had to do was shut the fuck up and the evidence uncovered by the main character would have been inadmissible in court, but if you suspended your disbelief the show was really entertaining. Tim Roth was knocking it out of the park, the character he portrayed reminded me of his role in Four Rooms. There were some scenes that one could interpret as "muh grrl pwwr" if you're cynical enough - I watched that show before The Wokening so I wasn't too sensitive about it - but as far as I remember they were always done in a believable way.

Also, House MD. It turned to utter shit around I think season 6 or 7, but then the final season (or maybe final 2 seasons? It's been a while) fixed it again and they were possibly the best of the series. Same as with Lie to Me, there were some scenes where women got the upper hand and put the protagonist "in his place", but both protagonists needed that once in a while.