The long awaited conclusion to the Frank saga is here, and it’s far from a good episode, much less the best one ever. Ronnie and Jazz cannot mask their disappointment that Carradine’s and Patinkin’s onscreen chemistry is reduced to a bunch of phone calls. The former kills the latter’s pseudo-girlfriend and the rest of the
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I’m tired of writing show descriptions that get deleted again and again so let’s get through this fast. “No Way Out”, perhaps the best Criminal Minds. It’s got everything, from Keith Carradine to milkshakes to missing kids to rib bones to people with the word ‘Crazy’ in there. Despite the podcast’s length, Ronnie and Jazz
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Origins Month comes to a finish with “Charm & Harm”, an episode with suspicious similarities to the Season 14 episode “Chameleon”. Would Criminal Minds be so callow as to rip themselves off? This isn’t the venue to speculate, but yes. The serial killer drowns women and then switches his identity, from real estate guy to
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In this week’s podcast, Ronnie and Jazz discuss Season 1 ‘gem’ “The Tribe”, and we’re only being half-sarcastic with the gem appellation. This really is one of the best Criminal Minds hours. Why? John Blackwolf. He’s the Batman of Criminal Minds, at least according to Ronnie. As the profilers seek to solve some murders seemingly
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Origins Month enters its second week as Ronnie and Jazz try to do anything but discuss “Derailed”, aka the train episode. More a hostage negotiation than an exciting adventure on the rails, “Derailed” is an attempt at an Elle episode that goes sideways when the writers realize they have nothing to say about a woman.
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