Criminal Minds -- DIS Official Thread 1 (SPOILERS!)

[mickeylove2]

I thought last night's was very good, and next week's looks even better! I really like Reid's discussion with Charlie's mom about the closest thing to a miracle he's ever seen. It had me in tears! I have to agree that this season seems darker and more disturbed but Emily rounded it all out when she said they do their job for days like this one. I thought, the producers realize that they are taking CM to the edge and they want their audience to know that they have a reason for doing it. Like I told my 9 year old DD, these shows are fake, but a lot of the episodes are based on actual crimes. So, they really bring thing into perspective when they make these episodes.

 

[kirstenb1]

I used to watch the show when Mandy Patinkin was still on. Each season, it seems to get progressively darker, and it's just too much for me to watch. Last night, I tuned in, because I hadn't seen the show since last year. The first 5 minutes, eeekkkk!!! I guess I just need to stick to lighter shows.

 

[Missy1961]

I couldn't watch much beyond the opening scene. I have family that live in Ashburn--so this hit too close to home for me.

 

[trip]

Like I told my 9 year old DD, these shows are fake, but a lot of the episodes are based on actual crimes. So, they really bring thing into perspective when they make these episodes.

Your 9 yr old DD watches? Doesn't it give her nightmares?

 

[WriteDisney]

I thought it was a good episode last night, very creepy, but I couldn't look away. I was only going to watch the first part but I was completely hooked. The lady who helped abduct the kids is on alot of things and she's always creepy like that! Talk about being stereotyped. That one was directed by MGG right? I have to say I'm impressed.

It was so sad at the end! I got very choked up.

 

[mickeylove2]

Your 9 yr old DD watches? Doesn't it give her nightmares?

Both of my DDs watch, it's 1 of their favorite shows. They also watch the CSI shows and both NCIS shows. Neither 1 has had a nightmare from something they watched on TV. My 7 year old has made it a point to tell everyone that she is going to be a CSI when she grows up...I figure she will go into either the military or some aspect of law enforcement. My 9 yo can be pretty emotional at times, so sometimes she will watch an episode and she will be kinda sad for the victims but she knows it's not real, so she will ask "did something like this really happen or was it someone's imagination?"

 

[Imzadi]

The Spin-off series is now officially re-titled: Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior. Instead of Criminal Minds 2.0, as previously posted below.


This week's episode (Wed 9pm, CBS) introduces us to the new spin-off series, Criminal Minds 2.0, and their BAU team. I posted about how Forest Whitaker is to head the new CBS series a few pages back.

You can read what I posted about Whitaker here:
http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=35218862&postcount=149


Here's the blurb on the new spin-off series:

Criminal Minds Spin-Off First Look: Forest Whitaker as Agent Cooper

http://www.tvfanatic.com/2010/03/criminal-minds-spin-off-first-look-forest-whitaker-as-agent-cooper/

"On April 7, CBS will air an episode of Criminal Minds that paves the way for its planned spin-off.

On that installment, Agent Hotchner's BAU team will join up with new operatives led by Forest Whitaker's Sam Cooper. Together, they all investigate an outbreak of murders in San Francisco.

In the photo below, Whitaker is seen with Matthew Gray Gubler, A.J. Cook and Joe Mantegna:

Last year, CBS spun-off NCIS successfully to create NCIS: Los Angeles, one of the highest-rated shows on TV. It's safe to assume this new version of Criminal Minds will also get picked up this fall.

If that's the case, it will also star Beau Garrett, Matt Ryan and Michael Kelly. Below, we've posted three more pictures from the April 7 episode:

ALSO:

Forest Whitaker Talks about 'Criminal Minds' Spin-off

http://www.buddytv.com/articles/criminal-minds/forest-whitaker-talks-about-cr-35282.aspx
Tuesday, March 16, 2010

"He's doing it for the kids.

Fresh from wrapping up work on the pilot of the Criminal Minds spin-off, Oscar winner Forest Whitaker tells Jam that he's doing the tentatively titled Minds 2.0 because the gig allows him time with his kids.

Don't forget to catch: First Photos of Forest Whitaker's First 'Criminal Minds' Episode

"They approached me at the right time -- I have two children who are 11 and 13, and I want to see them," says Whitaker, whose The Last King of Scotland role earned him the Academy Award Best Actor plum in 2007.

He adds that he doesn't find the commitment of doing a series stifling and vows that it won't mean the end of his movie career.

"I'll do whatever. I'll do a video. I'll go direct. I just like to create. And I'm having a great time on the show," he says. "I won't do as many movies. I'll do one a year; I'll try not to do two. So one movie a year -- that's what most of my peers do anyway."

Like most of its CBS procedural brethren, Minds 2.0 is set to be introduced via backdoor pilot in May, and Whitaker assures fans, both of the original and prospective converts, that this new group of profilers is more "clandestine" than viewers are used to following.

"Our group, we are behavioral analysts, but I don't follow rules. My character, Sam Cooper, came back to this unit only if he could operate without rules."

The Criminal Minds spin-off is Whitaker's first series to front, after stints on the long-running medical drama ER and The Shield. He follows scores of movie stars before him who've made the transition to the small screen, including Kiefer Sutherland (24), Charlie Sheen (Two and a Half Men), and Chris O'Donnell (NCIS: Los Angeles).

CBS recently announced that it's debuting 11 drama pilots for 2010, and the Criminal Minds spin-off is just one of the barrage of procedurals that is among the list."

 

[jillyb]

Glad I saw this post. DH and I love Criminal Minds and I didn't know about the spin-off. Will have to set the DVR for tomorrow night!

 

[Imzadi]

There is also an extra CM episode this Saturday at 9pm. It is a rerun from this season, but it's out of order to the ones they have been playing on Wed nights - which should be the Reaper - Hotch episode. This Saturday night skips that whole storyline, and is a much later one in the season. I think they are just trying to draw newbies to watch. I wonder if they will put the new Criminal Minds 2.0 spin-off into the Saturday 9pm time slot?

 

[CaliforniaDreamin]

There is also an extra CM episode this Saturday at 9pm. It is a rerun from this season, but it's out of order to the ones they have been playing on Wed nights - which should be the Reaper - Hotch episode. This Saturday night skips that whole storyline, and is a much later one in the season. I think they are just trying to draw newbies to watch. I wonder if they will put the new Criminal Minds 2.0 spin-off into the Saturday 9pm time slot?

I have had the worst 2 days in my career. This new episode could not come at a better time...I can't wait. I can't eat or sleep, but I will be watching Criminal Minds!

 

[MaumeeMom]

There is also an extra CM episode this Saturday at 9pm. It is a rerun from this season, but it's out of order to the ones they have been playing on Wed nights - which should be the Reaper - Hotch episode. This Saturday night skips that whole storyline, and is a much later one in the season. I think they are just trying to draw newbies to watch. I wonder if they will put the new Criminal Minds 2.0 spin-off into the Saturday 9pm time slot?

I don't think that the spin-off will be on Saturday as that is a TV wasteland for new, scripted shows - CBS has traditionally run repeats on Saturdays calling it stuff like Crimetime Primetime, etc.

There will be a few spots opening up on the schedule so it may go to Friday since Numb3rs seems to be done ( ) and Miami Medical opened to horrible numbers and reviews. They may move Good Wife to Friday at 10 to create a Female Friday w/ Ghost Whisperer & Medium and then put the new CM on Tuesday after the NCIS line-up.

Personally, I think Forest Whitaker is a fabulous actor but, I really didn't get him in this role. I don't think that I could watch that crew for an hour every week. The acting was weak and the characters forced. As an intro to a new team, I did not find last night's episode compelling enough to watch the new show.

I think that the NCIS folks did a much better job at launching the LA team in last year's Legend episodes.

 

[mickeylove2]

Ok, I loved the episode- as always CM lives up to my expectations!! But I am a little confused about the spinoff. With NCIS- the charcters stay in the general area in and around Virginia. NCIS LA- the characters stay pretty much to LA. CSI- Las Vegas. CSI NY- New York. CSI Miami- Miami. These shows stay true to there "home" but with CM- they travel all over the country, so I'm not getting the point of the spinoff!?!? Am I just over analyzing this or what? I mean, really, couldn't they just introduce a new team to the BAU on CM? Do they really need to have a new show? I'm just not feeling the "new team" like I am ny old favorites! Am I the only 1 who's thinking this way???

 

[Imzadi]

These shows stay true to there "home" but with CM- they travel all over the country, so I'm not getting the point of the spinoff!?!? Am I just over analyzing this or what? I mean, really, couldn't they just introduce a new team to the BAU on CM? Do they really need to have a new show? I'm just not feeling the "new team" like I am ny old favorites! Am I the only 1 who's thinking this way???

Apparently, they have more than one team. I remember the episode of the funeral, this season, where the team had to run off right after the funeral. Morgan asked, "Couldn't they send a different team?" and J.J. said all the other teams were busy.

I wouldn't want to follow a new team on this CM, switching episodes, or something. Law & Order: Criminal Intent, had to write in a second team to follow as Vincent D'Onofrio literally got sick from shooting 14 hour days for years and they had to give him time off. But, I wouldn't want alternating teams on this CM.

I thought the second team was supposed to work with our usual team, but they really took center stage in the investigation. I really missed J.J., with her being barely in one scene and Garcia only had one scene. Reid was like wallpaper in the scenes they did put him in. Morgan took a backseat and acted like he didn't know how to profile. Hotch was weird. When did he become so afraid of that mean, blonde FBI director, Strauss?


Now for the review on the new team. Forrest Whitaker was kind of strange. They are trying to make him more "rogue" according to the article I posted a while back. He's been missing in action for a while, apparently off in Europe with that British guy.

It seams they are making the whole team a bit rough around the edges. Not very "FBI" cookie cutter type. I suppose that's good. I wouldn't want a copy of the regular team, "Oh, there's the Morgan on this show." But, right now, they do seem like an odd bunch of characters together.

Watching the first season of CM, it's sometimes a wonder they got off the ground. The original writing of the team was a bit weak as they fleshed out the show. (I never cared for Elle.) So, it may take time to get this one rolling. I'll give it a few episodes.

 

[Imzadi]

New episode tonight!

 

[CaliforniaDreamin]

I have to say it...I'm not feeling the new cast. But I will give them another chance. I hope tonights is just the regulars. To me, Criminal Minds isn't Criminal Minds without Spence and Morgan

 

[Feralpeg]

Does anyone else wonder how they have the exact same model of black SUV to drive no matter what city they visit? Inquiring minds want to know.

 

[Imzadi]

Yes I've wondered that. You can say, it's the regulation, standard FBI model. But, sometimes they have to travel to the remotest locations where you just know there is no FBI field office nearby with a few of those SUVs in the parking lot. While I'm sure J.J., Garcia or whoever coordinates their travel plans & places car rental orders for the SUV if they need them. It's just strange how all the remote car rental sites just happen to have the same make/model/color SUV in stock.

I hope they took out the full insurance coverage on last night's SUVs as the one Hotch drove was completely shot up behind them, and Morgan shot out the windshield of the other one.

 

[lillygator]

I've been dvr'ing CM....watched three old episodes yesterday, the more I watch the more I love this show!

 

[Dee77]

Can I join?? I just found this thread and just like everyone else here, I love CM. I read most of this thread and would like to fill in what my thoughts are:

Spin-off series: sounds good to me especially since they hooked Forest Whitaker for the lead role.

Gideon or Rossi: for me I like Rossi better, in the Fisher King when Garcia owns up to playing a game on her laptop, I was really turned off by the way Gideon reacted so quickly with "what are you stupid? " or a comment along those lines.

Elle/Emily: I never really cared for Elle, and it did take me a little while to warm up to Emily but I now find her fantastic.

Most powerful episodes: I agree that the ones that involve the team members certainly pack a punch. This season, the episode with the missing children being taken from the county fairs came dangerously close to turning me off from the show altogether.

Another good one was the episode with the man who suffered from PTSD who was killing people in the area where all the local construction brought him back to the war zone in his mind. At the end when the team wanted to bring him back alive but didn't and the way it affected each member of them was really good writing and acting. It was a good reminder that not all unsubs are psychopaths.

I am so glad to have found this thread. Can't wait to keep up with all things CM.

 

[CaliforniaDreamin]

I've been dvr'ing CM....watched three old episodes yesterday, the more I watch the more I love this show!

It is soooo addictive..it took me only one marathon on A &E to get hooked. It is a great show..much better than the typical crime show!