Despite The Mentalist's Coupling, Final Season 'Is Not Fifty Shades of Grey' 

uncorks its seventh and final, 13-episode season this Sunday at 9:30/8:30c, series lead Simon Baker has but one wish for his character.

“I want a nude sex scene,” the Aussie actor told TVLine during a press call to preview the procedural’s farewell run.

Playing along, leading lady Robin Tunney quickly jumped in to quip,”That’s really just for, you know, the wrap party, for the crew to watch. Because we can’t allow any nudity [on camera].”

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Baker clarified that he was in fact joking, though his point was that after seven seasons, there’s very little left to give that’s new. “The truth is that as an actor you put so much skin in the f–king game that at the end, I am just happy to scrape my skeleton together and walk out of here in one piece.”

Tunney’s own wish, meanwhile, already has been granted, in that the show she has called home since 2008 is being afforded that rare opportunity to end things on its own terms, and thus with a proper coda. “I have gotten [my wish] — that we actually got a definitive last season and they can tie everything up,” she said. “It is really unusual to be putting it to bed in the proper way.”

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Of course, what sets this season apart from the half-dozen before it is that reformed con man Patrick Jane and CBI-turned-FBI Agent Teresa Lisbon are entering it as a consummated romantic pairing, having professed their feelings for one another — sealed

Tunney recalls a Season 1 press conference in which she, Baker and series creator Bruno Heller avowed that Jane and Lisbon would never hook up, “and I think we were telling the truth,” she says. Regardless, here we are, though all involved parties make clear that the romantic wrinkle will not overtake the show’s final episodes, either with angst, arguing or overly ardent interludes.

,” says Heller, while Tunney herself adds, “Season 7 is not

.” Rather, Heller sums up the pairing as “a very sort of Jane Austen type of romance… between two people you’ve known for years, and you can see they are made for each other not in a fiery, crazy way, but in a human, gentle, correct way.”

Baker says of the “Jisbon” romance, “We are not exploring the obvious side of having a relationship in the workplace but more the pitfalls and speed bumps that you come up against when you know someone so well and then decide to have a relationship with them.”

Especially when Jane has pulled Lisbon away from the attractive future she had mapped out with FBI Agent Marcus Pike (played by Pedro Pascal) to offer her…

, exactly? That question surfaces in the premiere, and shall be addressed throughout the final salvo.

“This season is very much about the reconfiguring of a relationship that has been based on a mission, on a shared desire,” says Heller. “Now that the mission is over, they have to find out, as much as they love each other, how can they live together, and what will they do with their lives?

I’m just going to sit back. Enjoy a show that doesn’t thrust either heaps of dead bodies or sex in my face. Simon and Robin are great together and so are the rest of the team. I’m sure going to miss it when it ends. Thank goodness for DVDs or iTunes episodes. 👍👍

I adore both the actors and the characters quite a bit, but I’ve been unable to recommit to watching the show after being so severely disappointed by the end of Red John. That said, I’m thrilled they’re getting a proper send-off. Good for them.

I absolutely loved the end of the Red John story. It was thrilling, kept me guessing, and was painfully intimate when it came down to the final kill.

I’m so excited to see how the final 13 episodes of Mentalist is going to fare. Hope Jane & Lisbon gives Castle & Beckett a run for their money.

Did you say “Jisbon” out loud? …obviously not, or you wouldn’t have typed it.

Jisbon is the actual Jane/Lisbon shipper moniker. I have always thought it was the oddest choice, but it seemed to have stuck (no pun intended)

Oh so excited!! Ever since the first episode, I’ve been totally on board with these two as friends or lovers, whichever way it felt best for them to tell the story. Them coming together last season felt really organic and I’m super excited for the mature way Heller sees the pair. Be a nice change from what we see on tv most of the time.

I actually found the first part of the episode kind of awkward. I’ve never felt a lot of romantic chemistry between Jane and Lisbon. It was a bit “clunky”. Other than that, I really enjoy the interactions of the team and how it all comes together in the solving of the crime. I’m in until the end. :)

If you’re a lucky Canadian, like me, the first episode has already aired and it was wonderful! I’ll probably watch it again on Sunday! The final season is going to be everything I hoped and a fitting end to this great series.

Really pumped for this final season. The Mentalist has been one of the few shows that have maintained its original charm over the course of a long run (barring the outofsorts second half of Season 6). It has this unique appeal, mainly thanks to Simon Baker’s wonderful potrayal, which kept me coming back year after year & I will dearly miss it. So looking forward to The Mentalist bowing out with the same charm & appeal it captured our hearts to start with!

It may not be the final season, CBS have quoted “There may be a possibility of a season 8.

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