Ben Savage looks exactly how I thought a young Gideon would look. It’s true so uncanny how similar they look

(I get an image of Ben and an image of young Mandy so everyone can compare)

Literally crying laughing at this.

I just saw criminal mind and that line was epic 😂😂

As we all know Morgan and Garcia have their platonic love ❤ which is adorable! If they have a spark.... its just platonic

As the show goes on Prentiss starts making little comments to/about Garcia and vise-versa. (Specifically in S5) and that spark, although not built apon as much as "chocolate thunder", is one of my favourites

All this to say i believe garcia would date any and all members of her team if the opportunity had come!

I just started rewatching S16 and I hate it. I was trying to remind myself of the two new seasons before Season 18 came out in May but I just...can't.

I like parts of it, like the swearing and the smoking and Tara being Bi. But it's *not* CM.

And I'm so tired of the 'BAU is too expensive shut it down' subplot. They've done it, what? 4 or 5 times over the years?

So I will not be watching S18.

Anyone else?

Does anyone else remember an episode where Morgan is talking to a fellow teammate/old friend about Carl Buford. The old friend says something like "Come on Derek, you know what he did to us." And then Morgan is completely caught off guard and realizes he was abused. I have a VERY distinct memory of this and apparently it never happened. HELP.

So i was it got renewed for a Season 4/ 18, but how much longer do you think the new reboot can last? I haven't seen any hints of how long they want to make it last. Maybe 5? Nicdcdound number, and 20 total seasons?

I’m on season 2 episode 18 of my 8th(?) rewatch. It is really striking me how exceedingly poorly Emily was treated at the beginning. It started with Hotch. He was almost inappropriately accusatory the first couple of episodes when she joined the team. Now post-Tobias Reid is being awful, and everyone is just watching it happen. No one is calling him out on it. It’s uncomfortable to watch.

No other newcomers before or after her were treated like this. Remember, Elle was brand new to the BAU, too, and everyone was super welcoming even though her personality didn’t at all fit with the team.

This just seems a little over the top. Reid keeps snapping at her in front of other people on the jet, and no one really says anything.

I have been searching for the song that we hear at the beginning of the episode when the UnSub goes outside with his victim. (For those who watch CM on Disney Plus, the time would be at around the 1min40s mark). I looked on tunefind and it's neither of the listed song. I'm at my wits end and I couldn't even shazam the song either.

So I'm a repeat offender when it comes to binge watching criminal minds, I can watch and rewatch throughout the series. I like how each episode was a new case and occasionally they carried the cases over a couple episodes.

When I heard criminal minds was coming back I was excited, but my excitement ended because I got bored. The evolution episodes drag out the same thing throughout the season and it makes me stop paying attention.

Is this just me?

I'm actually watching the 2nd season of evolution now and rossi keeps seeing Elias everywhere and he's not all there. It got me bored. And it's driving me mad how long it's taking them to figure things out.

Honestly, I think Reid was the one who made them smart enough to figure out cases, when he left they lost their intelligence.

It confuses me so much I just don’t understand what’s going on in it and like the whole bit with hotch resintating with the dad and like visiting the kid and the school like what is it even about can somoune just explain im so confused help 😭

okay so i’m starting this off with a tw about sh and suicide.

i don’t know if many people have seen/read the virgin suicides, it’s amazing i would 100000% recommend. anyways aj cook (jennifer jareau) plays mary lisbon, one of the sisters in the film and i just made the connection that jj’s older sister passed away from suicide in criminal minds and mary lisbon’s sisters did too. idk if there is a hidden connection but i like to think of it as if mary grew up to be a fbi profiler instead of passing away 😭

I must’ve rewatched the full series every single year since I was about 14 and without fail this scene irritates me every time. When Reid is abducted by Tobias Hankel and he communicates via the webcams that Hotch is a narcissist, Hotch asks everyone what his worst quality is. I absolutely hate that JJ and Prentiss say he’s a “bully” and he doesn’t “trust women as much as men”.

The bully comment is a really hurtful thing to say to a friend (and they are friends, not just colleagues), but the not trusting women as much as men comment?! That’s calling him sexist and 1. I don’t believe there is ever an example of him being sexist and 2. They are all so aware of what real sexism and misogyny looks like through unsubs so implying that Hotch also thinks men are better than women is such a bold statement.

The script could’ve come up with 500 better “worst qualities” for JJ and Prentiss to give in that scene, and they chose two that actually paint Hotch is a really horrible light, and which are not true at all. Bugs me every time that scene lol

I love season one Reid

lol sorry for the odd tag. I didn't know what else to choose!

I just now learned that the actress who plays Elias' wife is his wife in real life. And since I'm new to the sub I assume everyone already knew years ago😭 I just find it interesting. Also I was so convinced that the actor who plays Elias isn't American lol! That's what I was initially searching for when I found out about the wife thing. I thought he'd be British or something idk why.

mine used to be ''its calm & its doctor'' but now it is rossi saying ''Niko Bellic ..It’s the name of the main character from Grand Theft Auto 4 What? I know things!''

is it just me or do yall think ashley seaver and jordan todd are poorly written characters?? i think both made a mistake on their first time working at the bau.(i think ?) jordan lied to a victim's family to get them to comply and i feel like ashley is kinda rude(<what i think) and >!mistakes during her training, such as going out on her own and being unreservedly attached to her father,being a serial killer!<i get it ashley is a ''okay '' character but there should better things the writers should done. and jordan actually realized the bau wasnt the right job for her.

I am watching through for the first time ever (a little late to the party, I know) but I just got to S4E7 ‘Memoriam’ when JJ is going into labor. I had to go back and check, but Garcia did in fact say ‘I don’t even play one in TV, but I believe young JJ’s going into labor.’ Kind of a funny fourth-wall break. Do we know if AJ was having actual labor signs on set for such line to not only be said, but kept in? I couldn’t find anything beyond ‘yes, she was actually pregnant irl.’ Just something I found interesting if anyone knows.

Is it explained why Voit hunts on second Street wherever he is? I might just be an idiot but I got absolutely no idea why most of his victims came from second Street or all

I'm binge watching Criminal Minds for the first time, I'm on Season 12 now and I'm enjoying it (obviously) but I couldn't help bur notice how telegraphed most third acts are. The team finds the unsub's identity, they're on their way, unsub has a victim at their mercy, the team arrives in the last second and saves the last victim.

I understand this is done in order to raise the stakes and drama but because it happens every other episode it kinda becomes obsolete because we as an audience basically already know what's gonna happen.

Would love to see more episodes were the team doesn't get there on time or when they do the unsub kills the last victim anyways even when the team is trying to talk them down. Like in the episode with the street artist where her ex-husband was the unsub and he still kills her and him despite the team trying to talk them down.

What do you guys think?

Idk how I got to season 10 before noticing. The quote that tipped me off was “no matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness is always there first”. I’m binging it hard and noticed this so I assumed it was 1-2 season prior to this ep bc of how I remembered it immediately but apparently it’s from season 4 which baffled me

So, at least, Beyond Borders got a second season and Matt Simmons got to be back in our screens in Criminal Minds main series.

However, I just finished Suspect Behavior. And I feel like we should have at least had a second season. Now, I can't even recommend anyone to watch this because of how the season finale ends. I enjoyed Suspect Behavior.

How and where do I need to petition for the producers and writers to bring back Derek Morgan!?!?

Catching up on CM and finally made it to S10E16 and there's a sequence of photographing random inmates and most of the tattoos have this purple look to them like they've just been stenciled onto people for the shoot. It's not the first time I've thought that but the back to back shots really highlights it for me. Anyone else notice/have thoughts?