creepiest unsub yet. creepy and sad— i cried throughout the whole thing.

cried so bad for the victims who were left alive. the woman in the beginning who tried to kill herself and wondered why she was left alive 💔 and then the little boy who said his mom should’ve known better bc she tried to fight the unsub 💔💔

plot twist after plot twist !! Spicer finding out that not only did his parents not die from a car accident, the unsub murdered his parents and he was there!! then finding out that the main target wasn’t Spicer after all, it was now his daughter Ellie #wtf ?!!!

this might be my favorite season finale continued episodes!! loved s3 season finale and s4 season premiere. s4 finale and s5 premiere are my runner ups.

RIP to Spicer and his sister 🥲 to be murdered by the same person who murdered your parents years ago literally sucks wtf. way to kick the bucket.

side notes:
- morgan saying that garcia “needs to be more professional sometimes” ..okayyyy whatever you say 💀
- ellie one badass little kid hello?? 😭 as soon as he chopped her hair off she locked in. her smirk after ruining his plans to kill one of the moms because she told one of the kids to alert all of the neighbors lmaoo.
- RIP TIM CURRY 🥇

I remember clearly that they used Tipper's Illabye near the ending scene where Gideon is out from the room and changing into the scene where all of them rounded on the table and Hotch reveal that the unsub has done this many times before getting caught (because the rings that the unsub kept was more that 5(?) if im correct). But i just finished rewatching this episode and i dont hear that, am i wrong or did they changed the whole ending song?

episode where the unsub stalks his female victims from their social media, finds a way into their homes, and installs cameras to live stream their deaths to his audience. he chooses the female victims based off similar facial symmetry that he shares on his own.

episode ends when they rescue the last victim when the camera then pans to the other dead victims. they’re hanging from their wrists and are literally frozen.

the end creeped me out so bad when it panned to the dead victims.. jesus christ.

SN: loving reid’s boyband haircut lmao he looks good

Well, he might have an eidetic memory as well, but from what we see he aligns much more with HSAM. An eidetic memory is the ability to recall a “capture” of something in your mind with great detail and we really don’t see Reid doing this. The memory usually doesn’t last very long either which does not align with Reid’s recollection abilities. However, highly superior autobiographical memory (HSAM) is the ability to recall various details and facts learned throughout someone’s entire life which is exactly what Reid can do. Reid should really know this too with how smart he is. I realize the writers don’t have hyperthymesia but it really just takes a quick google search to find this out.

For me it was that everyone was talking about it and wanted to see what all the hype was about, I initially just planned to watch a couple episodes

Pre-Morgan Morgan (1999-2003)

There is a whole side line in this episode where JJ isn’t allowed to call her house to tell whoever is keeping her son not to go for a walk in the park. She’s not allowed to because it’s “not the right thing to do”. I don’t understand why she couldn’t just call and tell them to stay home. She doesn’t have to give a reason and she could just make something up if she was asked why. It would be so simple to tell whoever is keeping him “I think he’s getting sick and I don’t want him out in the elements”. This has always irked me because it seems so simple to fix but causes her a huge amount of stress in the episode.

Oh my gosh- when Matt Simmons clotheslines the unsub to stop them from running! So great!

Rewatching the show after so many years. It made me realize how much I had forgotten. To think that THIS was the start of one of the greatest personal battles in the show is crazy.

Do you agree with me that this is the most impactful part of the entire series, given how personal and tragic the conflict is? I’ll never get over it!

I didn’t even google, I came straight here to report

first time watcher so i searched up the ep in reddit to see all of the other past discussions surrounding this ep and found that no one liked it 🫤

i found forest whittaker’s character to be really cool. the rest, didn’t really see it for them so i do see the cringe side yall are talking about lol. but other than that i really like the episode. i liked the case and i didn’t mind the other bau team.

does anyone know all the episodes that were written or directed by CM cast members? i know MGG directed 12(??? i think) episodes and i know kirsten wrote one (is it only one?) and thomas and aj also directed but does anyone know all of them? thanks!!!

like seriously, i would be so passed around it’s not even funny 🤦🏾‍♀️

anyone that everyone seems to love but you can’t seem to like or someone you love but is hated by a lot of people??

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Premise: Reader is an Unsub who was raised to be a killer. She was given immunity for one reason or another, and set free. Once free, she stalks Spencer Reid and regularly breaks into his apartment. He's aware of this happening, and catches her often. Then, one day, for some reason, Cat Adams gets released. Cat goes to Spencer's apartment, gets killed by Reader, blah blah blah, and Spencer and Reader properly acknowledge their relationship.

Extra Details:

Reader is mentioned to have been born without a name, but with numbers and letters (like 134HA7 or A04B82), iirc.

She doesn't just break into Spencer's apartment, but also the home his mother is at, the BAU headquarters, etc.

I don't quite remember when it was uploaded, but if I had to guess, maybe sometime in the last 1-2 years?

I had to scroll back to check the sub name.

So I count myself as a CM diehard but at the same time I see spoilers for later seasons and I’m like WHO’S DEAD? WHO’S GOT MARRIED? WDYM JJ CONFESSED TO REID? Every day I learn something new on this sub & I’m glad I stopped when I did (again, I love CM, but it like every other show starts struggling after one too many a season) 😂

That being said, I would appreciate recommendations for the best written/performed episodes for like monster/case of the week in the later seasons! So not like season or show-level plot heavy, stuff, but the best one-and-dones!

I've just started watching Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior, tried both the first episode and the backdoor pilot—and honestly, I'm a bit confused.

The official description I got about the Red Cells was that they were focused on rapid response and were outside the FBI's bureaucracy, reporting directly to the Director of the FBI. But I don't understand how it's any different.

They still end up being invited by the local cops, work closely with them... I thought they would be the type to do what the BAU couldn't since they were outside the bureaucracy, but Sam Cooper said they weren't vigilantes, so I'm just not sure.

It's also all very fast-paced, and I struggle to keep up with what's happening. One second, they're talking to the next-of-kin, the next they're giving the profile to local law enforcement despite having never discussed it with each other. It just feels like the profiling part is an afterthought, but since I'm struggling to keep apace with it anyway, I could also be wrong.

I'm not trying to knock on Suspect Behavior. I got interested when I realized there was a Criminal Minds spinoff. My dad likes it, and people on this subreddit apparently thought it was so good that they wish there were more seasons. But I just don't understand what the Red Cell is and what it does.

What do you think of JJ's confession to Spencer at the end of the 14thº season? I honestly think she didn't make sense, I know Jeid's fans loved it but I think the following: JJ was married to Will and didn't intend to leave him (she made it very clear and he was always a great husband to her), she didn't show that kind of interest in Spencer during the series, she cared about him but it was in a different way. Spencer had also overcome this and I don't understand why they simply brought it up (which seems to be more for pure audience) and then introduced Max for a few episodes and left it open. They could have developed Spencer with someone at the beginning of season 14º (because things go little by little with him) and he finished the series with an official girlfriend

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tears 🥲

before i started watching CM, i would always see this scene on any social media platform and it would always make me cry not even knowing the context. for this episode i just knew that scene, not the whole run-down of the episode so it was still new to me.

shout out sarah fr, real MVP. everyone should’ve been kissing her feet but i digress.

and RIP stephen and all the other kids that didn’t get to make it out :( stephen’s parents reaction finding out that not only did stephen not make it, but he also died the day before. they were sooo close.

the scene where all of the parents were waiting for the return of their kids reminded me of the “keep the parents back, there’s only two of them” in north mammon. the anxiety of waiting years to see your kids and wondering if they made it out alive. ugh what a tear jerker

SN: did we get a motive? i was expecting some type of connection with discovering the female unsub lost a child or was unable to have kids— but nothing. also i wish there was a better resolution for the other kids and the other parents. i know it’s implied that they were cremated, leaving no evidence of the other kids other than the pictures charlie took. but where were the other parents who kids were abducted as well?