Criminal Minds

I really enjoyed the first two seasons, but then it seemed to all fall apart in season 3. Not sure what happened, but the flavor and details got tiresome and tedious. Acting also seemed to be significantly worse in season 3. Also the moderately bombastic music increasingly got more annoying. I suspect a change in management that degraded it badly. Then again, maybe I just got tired of all the serial killers.

Can be interesting in small doses, but I absolutely get reaching ones limit with this one. Still...before giving up on it completely, if you can, watch the episode called "Entropy", in season 11. It's one of the most interesting, compulsively watchable hours of network television I can think of from the last 20 years, and Matthew Gray Gubler and Aubrey Plaza are stupendous in it.

Getting so tired, silly and repetitive that even the long-term main characters are getting tired of it and starting to leave. Mandy Patinkin was smart to leave after the third season before the show completely and totally jumped the shark sometime around season 5. The real BAU doesn't even travel to crime scenes, they sit in their office in DC and provide profiles remotely. They don't meet the victims ever and they play no direct role in apprehending the criminals.

Slightly less idiotic than CSI, but still pretty shitty.The characters are all one-dimensional cliches which range from being bland and boring to annoying and insufferable.That aside, there's the usual bullshit you'll see in crime shows like this: the tech person's absurd ability to somehow find data that shouldn't exist, the protagonists violating FBI policies constantly and the absurdity of serial killers killing dozens of people on a weekly basis.Then, this show wants me to take it seriously.

It's murdertastic!

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Darkness becomes routine here, packaged into profiles, procedures, and the weekly ritual of entering another broken mind. The show thrives on tension and grim fascination, balancing procedural efficiency with just enough psychological rot to keep it watchable. Its formula can grow repetitive, and not every case cuts equally deep, but the ensemble gives the machine a human pulse. 7/10 — Addictive, uneasy, and built on polished nightmare logic.

I like this show. Some seasons, as always, are better than others, and I haven't watched any of the newer episodes at all but the old ones I've rewatched so many times.

Characters are too emotional/sensitive for me

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