Criminal Minds, Now that the season finale has set up Prentiss’ imminent exit from the BAU to (perhaps) take that job in London, the burning question is whether the CBS drama will attempt to fill the void with a new face...to read more TvLine
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Criminal Minds Season 8 question and answer
Criminal Minds, Now that the season finale has set up Prentiss’ imminent exit from the BAU to (perhaps) take that job in London, the burning question is whether the CBS drama will attempt to fill the void with a new face...to read more TvLine
Criminal Minds Ratings for the season 7 finale
From CBS press release
THE TWO-HOUR SEASON FINALE OF "Criminal Minds" OUT-DELIVERS LAST YEAR'S FINALE IN VIEWERS, ADULTS 18-49 AND ADULTS 25-54
"Criminal Minds" Wins its Time Period In Key Ratings Measures with Largest Audience and Best Adult 18-49 Rating Since January
The two-hour season finale of Criminal Minds won its time period in viewers and key demographics, outperforming last year's finale in all ratings measures, according to Nielsen preliminary live plus same day ratings for Wednesday, May 16.
From 9:00-11:00 PM, Criminal Minds was first in households (8.3/13), viewers (13.47m), adults 25-54 (4.4/11) and adults 18-49 (3.5/10). Compared to last year's one-hour finale (9:00-10:00 PM on May 18, 2011), Criminal Minds was up +5% in households (from 7.9/12), +6% in adults 18-49 (from 3.3/08), even in adults 25-54 and added +630,000 viewers (from 12.84m, +5%).
Criminal Minds posted its best deliveries in both households and adults 25-54 since Feb. 8, 2012, in viewers and adults 18-49 since Jan. 25, 2012.
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Criminal Minds Comments thread for the TWO HOURS season 7 finale 'Hit/Run'
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Enjoy the finale!
Goodbye, Prentiss: Criminal Minds Boss Promises a Bittersweet Finale
By Adam Bryant
Criminal Minds executive producer Erica Messer knew very early this season that she wanted to do something out of the ordinary for the season finale. "I wanted to ground it with our team and I wanted to end with the idea that good things happen to good people," Messer tells
TVGuide.com. "Our team puts up with all this crap from horrible people all year long, so let's actually celebrate them. We see so many bad images all season long, can't we just have our heroes be happy and smiling and dancing? We knew early on there would be a wedding at the end, not an SUV explosion [like in the Season 3 finale]." To read more TvGuide
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Thomas Gibson Speaks on Criminal Minds Finale, Socks, Season 8
By Renata Sellitti
TV Fanatic is as excited for tomorrow night's two-part Criminal Minds season finale as you all are, trust us. So when we got the opportunity to chat up Thomas Gibson recently - yes, SSA Aaron Hotchner himself - we jumped at the chance.
We made sure to get some season finale scoop, but also dug deep for the really hard-hitting questions, like... why does everyone have a fetish with Matthew Gray Gubler's socks? And who would make the best real life FBI agent?
Whether you're sad to see Prentiss go, or just want to find out what makes Hotch tick, I'm pretty sure you'll enjoy hearing from Gibson as much as I did. He is every bit as awesome as you'd want him to be.
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Criminal Minds Review 'Profiling 101'
It took almost the entire length of Season
7 to get one but we finally got an episode featuring our team actually
profiling in the aptly named Profiling 101. Many fans of the show have been
asking for this and the episode surely delivered in that area.
In Profiling 101, Rossi has been invited as
a guest lecturer for an undergraduate criminology class and the entire team
insists on joining him. They discuss a case that has haunted Rossi for the past
20 years, the most prolific serial killer the BAU team has ever seen.
Through flashbacks we meet Rossi 20 years
ago when he first worked a case in Seattle where two women from opposite ends
of the society spectrum find commonality in death; both the victims of a murderer
who kept them for days before killing them by removing their reproductive
organs. The case went cold before they
could gather any real leads.
The killer resurfaced in 1997 in San
Francisco and we see the first time that Rossi meets a young Aaron Hotchner.
Same M.O. so they quickly realize their unsub has migrated from Seattle to
Northern California. They know that he’s probably killed others in the 5 years
since they had first become aware of this serial killer, they just haven’t been
able to tie them together.
As the story told to the class progresses,
we learn that the BAU has evolved and that their resources have come a long way
since Rossi first handled this case. We meet our agents through the years and
the make-up and hair departments of the Criminal Minds production team does a
great job bringing us back a young Reid and the JJ, Prentiss and Garcia of a
few of years ago. That was a nice touch to remind us of the time period we were
in as the killer continues to work his way down the west coast over the next
several years, always killing in pairs; a high-risk victim like a prostitute or
runaway and a low-risk victim like a soccer-mom. His victims’ ages have
advanced through the years leading the team to believe they were looking for a
predator roughly the same age as his victims. And he always removes the
reproductive organs of the women which the team recognizes has some importance
to him, he either regrets being born or there was some other traumatic event
related to his birth.
In fact it is in 2009 that their unsub
reappears, this time back where it all began…Seattle. The killer returned to
the same neighborhood where one of his first two victims was kidnapped. Garcia
works her magic to find out that back in 1966 a 16-year-old girl was raped in
that very same quiet neighborhood that had by 2009 grown into a trendy part of
town. The young woman had a difficult
delivery and died during childbirth causing our unsub to be raised by his
grandparents. The young man, Thomas Yates, was the victim of cruel and abusive
grandmother who was probably still grieving over the rape and eventual death of
her daughter. No excuse for the pain and humiliation that young Thomas suffered
and she created a serial killer in the process. Once they discovered who their
unsub was, Thomas was arrested, tried and sentence to death though he had never
said a word once he was apprehended.
Rossi is troubled this entire episode and
we eventually find out why. After his sentence was handed down, Thomas
contacted Rossi. This was the two year anniversary since Thomas had broken his
silence and wanted to speak to Rossi. Thomas had a couple of demands you see;
he wanted his death sentence commuted to life in prison without the possibility
of parole and he wanted to be transferred to a prison on the east coast so he
could have snow in the winter. What did he have in return? He gave Rossi the
names of 40 additional victims and where they were buried. Thomas also told him
that there were actually a total of 101 names and that he would give Rossi –
and only Rossi – a new name every year on the day of his choosing. Rossi has
been carrying this burden for the last few years, notifying the families of
each victim himself. And the date that Yates chose to reveal his new victim?
Rossi’s own birth date. Thomas singing Happy Birthday as Rossi left with the
name of the newly revealed victim was one of the creepiest moments ever on
Criminal Minds.
Nice job by writer Virgil Williams. The
episode was all about profiling and how the BAU eventually tracks down their
serial killer. There were some very poignant moments like when Morgan said some
of the unsubs you find and just move on while others stay with you. This is one
that Rossi will never forget, can’t forget if Yates has his way. They also
touched on why they do to this job which most of the time is horrific and I’ll
end on this note, a quote by Irish statesman and author, Edmund Burke that
Rossi answered the question with: “The
only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing”. So very true and that is why we have knights
like those in the BAU.
By Sir Bedivere
By Sir Bedivere