Criminal Minds 1409: Broken Wing
At a suburban house a woman is enjoying her first day back out of drug rehab! Her friends are worried about her and offer to stay over to help ensure she doesn't relapse, but she says she'll be fine!...
View ArticleCriminal Minds 1410: Flesh and Blood
In yet another SAW-type opening, we find a guy hanging from the ceiling of a torture dungeon, with a bag over his head! A killer shows up with the baseball bat and murders him! Based on the victim's...
View ArticleCriminal Minds 1411: Night Lights
In bed, a woman is awoken by her smartwatch! It warns her that the motion sensors outside the house are detecting someone. Her husband assures her that it's just the cat, and they should go back to...
View ArticleCrminal Minds 1412: Hamelin
It's night, in Iowa, and a kid is sleeping peacefully in bed. But how long can that last? Like three seconds. Then he hears mysterious whispering and goes to investigate! He heads straight out the...
View ArticleCriminal Minds 1413: Chameleon
The episode opens as Joe is starting his day. Notably he has a band-aid on his head! No wonder dramatic music is playing over an innocuous scene! He grabs his gun from a secret panel that opens up when...
View ArticleCriminal Minds 1414: Sick and Evil
We see a woman talking on the phone with a friend. She's sad, because she lost her baby (as evidenced by the empty crib in the background, and is envious because the friend has one! Also, there's a...
View ArticleCriminal Minds 1415: Truth or Dare
A red truck drives up to a small Mexican fast food place, and the driver heads inside. Watching him is a bedraggled man in a black plaid shirt. I mention this only because I've never understood black...
View ArticleCriminal Minds 1501: Under The Skin
Well, here we are! We've got just ten episodes of Criminal Minds left! Fifteen years, 324 episodes, and it's all coming down to this! Will the show try to get JJ and Reid together? Will they kill of...
View ArticleCriminal Minds 1502: Awakenings
The episode opens with a recap of the Faceoff killer's situation, and JJ getting shot. Because, again, she's terrible at every part of her job. And not a great person, generally. Then it's off to the...
View ArticleCriminal Minds 1503: Spectator Slowing
The episode opens with a mother and daughter arriving at home in rural Memphis! The mom finds a package sitting underneath her mailbox, and brings it into the house with them. I'd be a little annoyed...
View ArticleCriminal Minds 1504: Saturday
The episode opens in the Quantico office, where a klaxon is blaring and red lights are shining. Is this a biological attack on the FBI? That would be a twist! Especially since the FBI has been attacked...
View ArticleCriminal Minds 1505: Ghost
The episode opens with some one-on-one basketball. They toss some rocks and talk some trash, then one is shot by a sniper! The second guy only has a moment to be puzzled be fore he, too, is felled by a...
View ArticleCriminal Minds 1506: Date Night
Just five episodes left! And this one starts with people coming out of a movie theatre that seems to be showing Ben-Hur! Like... maybe the silent one? It's a really, really, retro poster is what I'm...
View ArticleCriminal Minds 1507: Rusty
The episode opens with an establishing shot of Washington DC in the midst of the flowering of the cherry trees! Which puts this episode's setting somewhere in the neighbourhood of mid-March, 2020! This...
View ArticleCriminal Minds 1508: Family Tree
The episode begins on a sidestreet as a man in a sports car negotiates with a sex worker. What kind of sports car? I don't know! The logo on the front is vaguely shield-shaped, is that Porsche? Just...
View ArticleCriminal Minds 1509: Face Off
Well, this is it! Second-last episode of Criminal Minds ever! This should be a blast, right? Before I get started, though, can we take a second to mention how ridiculous the last scene of last week's...
View ArticleCriminal Minds 1510: And In The End...
Things start weird as we see the first team scene from the last episode of season one, where everyone was going to take a long weekend to themselves before the Fisher King showed up! Then it's back to...
View ArticleSorry for the Scare!
The Count here to let you know that I'm fine, and toiling away on things - the 'disaster post' was something I generally set back six months at a time, but this time I forgot to move it due to being...
View ArticleCriminal Minds 1601 - Just Getting Started
Okay, haven't been here in a while? Do I even remember how to do this? The last time I wrote any Criminal Minds blog-style reviews was when I did an insane sprint of writing 1-2 a day as I was trying...
View ArticleCriminal Minds 1602 – Sicarius
And we are back for episode two of season 16! It's called Sicarius, which is either a reference to the Latin word for Assassin, or a kind of spider! Thanks, Google!Things start in a hospital type...
View ArticleCriminal Minds 1603 - Moose
It seems that Garcia’s fears about activating the trackers causing problems in the investigation was fairly overblown, because the episode opens with the team chasing a killer through the woods –...
View ArticleCriminal Minds 1604 - Pay Per View
The episode opens with the Mastermind (MM, Elias Voit), cleaning up after allowing adorable pupper Moose to snack down on a guy just because the man looked like MM's horrible neighbour. Like, I get you...
View ArticleCriminal Minds 1605 - Oedipus Wrecks
Okay everyone, we made it to the half-season ender! Which, honestly, is a weird thing to call it, since we’re taking just two weeks off? When I hear ‘mid-season ender’ my mind goes to a months-long...
View ArticleCriminal Minds 1606 – True Conviction
We’re back for the second half of season sixteen – now for the real question: are they going to let us know what happened with the explosion immediately, or jerk us around a while first? Let’s find out...
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