The show celebrates its 350th episode in style with “Angels”, a Season 9 two-parter that closes that season. Who is the culprit behind these prostitute murders? Is it a fake preacher or some real sheriff’s deputies? Perhaps it could be both. The boys try to reason their way through what is some pretty egregious nonsense.

How do you make a sexual slavery Ariel Castro story compelling and, uh, not gross? You hire Daniel Roebuck and remind Ronnie and Jazz of that time he portrayed Jay Leno in The Late Shift. “Hostage” is basically what would happen if instead of holding late night television hostage Leno did it to three girls.
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Criminal Minds throws us a curveball with “The Edge of Winter”, a format bender that mostly takes place in flashbacks. That doesn’t make the episode good, of course, just different. Morgan and the gang try to prep a witness for an upcoming court case; already this is an outlier because in 85% of cases the
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“Distress” time: Holt McCallany has gone native and it’s up to the inteprid profilers of Criminal Minds to stop him before he kills again. Ronnie and Jazz discuss Black Hawk Down, the crime rate in Houston, and how annoying Reid’s drug arc is. “Distress” caps off our Season 2 sojourn; hope you survived the experience!

Criminal Minds covers race relations…or do they? “Fear and Loathing” feints at that but instead is about how men will lure women into being murdered with promises of music stardom. Also, Reid continues to deal with his onset of drug addiction, bringing to mind that season of 24 where Jack was hooked on heroin or
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