After the fifth season finale, we all got our teeth on edge.
We knew that red john story would finish in 8 episode.
We doubt the veracity of the list, we trusted it, and we didn't.
We all thought Patrick Jane was 3 step ahead, faking temper in front of Lisbon.
We were hoping for a mind-blowing twist.
After each episode :
Not only our questions were answered, but new questions out-came.
We felt more and more duplicitous about the Red John reveal because the time left went shorter and shorter.
Episode by episode we were waiting for the twist, it didn't come until the end of episode 7.
Until then we were more anxious than ever, hoping we could have a big twist in 44 minutes(probability of being disappointed 75%).
And then the episode got leaked, it was so disappointing that "50% of us" were smiling yellow (french expression).
Then the twist was the joke becoming true.

But we are still hoping for a little twist/return
Let's face it, we are just some creepy over-thinkers who put too much sense in details the show threw us away (every moment of silence, book, facial expression, sentence analyst, color of cup, shirt, music) and make them tell a story =)

We have to continue to dress up the show the way we do as if Red John was still there. Even if we are denial.