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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September means Deliver The Profile is doing Origins Month, aka a month of covering Season 1 of Criminal Minds. “Won’t Get Fooled Again” is the third ever episode of the series and it goes so far as to resolve the trauma that set up Mandy Patinkin’s character in the first place. We’re dealing with a
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For the finale of CHILDREN IN PERIL month, Ronnie and Jazz tackle Beyond Borders Season 1 finale “Paper Orphans”. Set in Haiti, the episode is about a couple keen on adopting a Haitian boy lose their biological child during the night. But the hosts spend most of their time on tangents regarding spinoffs, Jack Garrett’s
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