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Profiling Criminal Minds
An investigation into our obsession with the TV show "Criminal Minds"
Episodes
Profiling Criminal MindsMillennium 305-306: Thirteen Years Later, Skull and Bones
Retconning the first two seasons of Millennium. We are bored to tears.
Profiling Criminal MindsCriminal Minds 1701-1702: Gold Star, Contagion
We forgot to mention Tyler finding fake IDs in the murder office!
Profiling Criminal MindsMillennium 303-304: TEOTWAWKI, Closure
Two very unsatisfying episodes. And Emma looks for answers in all the wrong places!
Profiling Criminal MindsCriminal Minds Evolution: Season 16 Re-Watch!
The poster in question: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0452046/mediaviewer/rm1756462337/?ref_=tt_ov_i
Profiling Criminal MindsMillennium 301-302: The Innocents, Exegesis
They actually blew up a house. The high point of these two episodes.
Profiling Criminal MindsMillennium Post Season 2 Break - Stone Cold, Hard Target
Well, they're both set in Louisiana and have Lance Hendrickson as the villain. BUT: Stone Cold is so bad, while Hard Target is a so good that it is hard to…
Profiling Criminal MindsMillennium 222-223: The Fourth Horseman, The Time is Now
A truly sad cliffhanger ending to the second season. Then, we have to decide how to rank all the episodes.
Profiling Criminal MindsMillennium 221: Somehow Satan Got Behind Me
A meditation on the nature of evil.
Profiling Criminal MindsSunday Bonus Episode: Criminal Minds Season 17 is just four weeks away!
Dan gets angry over the probable death of Josh Stewart and Dr. Redmond comes up with a truly wacky possibility for Season 17.
Profiling Criminal MindsMillennium 219-220: Anamnesis, A Room With No View
Millennium takes on the education system. Honestly, we're not kidding!!
Profiling Criminal MindsMillennium 217-218: Siren, In Arcadia Ego
Culture-jamming the Second Coming in "In Arcadia Ego". The closest thing to a happy ending you'll get in Millennium.
Profiling Criminal MindsMillennium 215-216: Owls, Roosters
We finally get to find out what the Millennium Group is all about and blow up the Fourth Reich. What an two-parter!
Profiling Criminal MindsMillennium 213-214: The Mikado, The Pest House
Here's Dan's "The Tragedian": https://youtu.be/6b97Nf60EAg?si=HS4ro0C1YwCUe3lK. We had a lot of fun making this - just saying!
Profiling Criminal MindsMillennium 211-212: Goodbye Charlie, Luminary
Good-bye Charlie was so heart-warming, although it took multiple viewings to get there. Luminary was a bad title but the episode had its moments.
Profiling Criminal MindsSunday Bonus Episode: The Flash and Temple of Doom
Join us as we trash The Flash and swoon over the Temple of Doom with special guest Blank Reg.
Profiling Criminal MindsMillennium 209-210: Jose Chung's Doomsday Defense, Midnight of the Century
The funniest episode of Millennium paired with a sad/happy resolution episode as Frank reconciles with his father.
Profiling Criminal MindsMillennium 207-208: 19:19, The Hand of St. Sebastian
Now we know the apocalypse is coming, what the millennium group is, and who the snake in the grass is! Whew!! Packed episode.
Profiling Criminal MindsSunday Bonus Episode: Hollywood Shuffle and American Fiction
Just a fun discussion about two interrelated films about 40 years apart. The one is clear-eyed about what it wants to say; the other has a failure of nerve at…
Profiling Criminal MindsMillennium 205-206: A Single Blade of Grass, The Curse of Frank Black
Buffalo roaming New York City and a rambling ghost story. Great viewing!
Profiling Criminal MindsMillennium 203-204 - Sense and Antisense, Monster
A rather muddled first episode followed by Millennium's take on the Bad Seed.
Profiling Criminal MindsMillennium 201-202: The Beginning and the End, Beware of the Dog
Setting up the stakes in Season 2 perfectly!!
Profiling Criminal MindsMillennium Post-Season 1 Break: Jennifer 8, Pumpkinhead
Jennifer 8 doesn't hold up but Sheila is blown away about how good Pumpkinhead is.
Profiling Criminal MindsMillennium 122: Paper Dove, Season in Review
Not a moment of peace, never an easy answer: the hallmarks of Millennium. And we love it!
Profiling Criminal MindsMillennium 120-121: Broken World, Maranatha
A blossoming serial killer and the Anti-Christ! This show just keeps upping the ante!
Profiling Criminal MindsMillennium 118-119: Lamentation, Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions
Things have gotten real. Demons and angels exist but they've got bigger things to worry about than us!

Profiling Criminal MindsMillennium115-117: Sacrament, Covenant, and Walkabout
Three fairly conventional storylines with that Millennium twist! The lighting in and around the perfect yellow is getting darker though.
Profiling Criminal MindsMillennium 113-114: Force Majeur, Thin White Line
Force Majeur is so convoluted, Dan watched it twice. The last minute of Thin White Line had Dr. Redmond almost in tears.
Profiling Criminal MindsMillennium 111-112: Weeds, Loin Like a Hunting Flame
Nowhere is safe! Gated communities, pharmacies and raves. Sad, sad episodes.
Profiling Criminal MindsMillennium 109-110: Wide Open, The Wild and the Innocent
We are absolutely sure that the Black family was going to get bigger! What could have been!
Profiling Criminal MindsMillennium 107-108: Blood Relations, The Well-Worn Lock
Think you're upset by the state of the world? Two very very depressing stories about families.
Profiling Criminal MindsMillennium 105-106: 522666, Kingdom Come
Get prepared for another of our lengthy discussions on religion. Did you know that elephants have funeral rites and chimpanzees go to war?
Profiling Criminal MindsCop Rock: Marital Blitz, No Noose is Good Noose, Bang the Potts Slowly
It really was a special show that gave us characters and plot lines that we would have continued to watch. And we only really complained about one song!
Profiling Criminal MindsMillennium: Dead Letters, The Judge
This show just got really dark, as Frank gets a job offer.
Profiling Criminal MindsCop Rock: Oli of Ol’ Lay, Cop-a-Felliac, Potts Don’t Fail Me Now
We have decided that this show is so much better than we had remembered it!! Sometimes the songs are going to get you emotionally in a way that speech wouldn't…
Profiling Criminal MindsMillennium - The Pilot, Gehenna
Welcome to Chris Carter's nightmare! Lance Hendrickson is the perfect psychic profiler. Stressful, stressful, stressful.
Profiling Criminal MindsCop Rock: Happy Mudder’s Day, A Three-Corpse Meal, The Cocaine Mutiny
We are much happier with the music. It is so much better than we remembered!
Profiling Criminal MindsCop Rock: Pilot, Ill-Gotten Gaines
Great first two episodes, only had one complaint about the music. However, we are still wondering whether this was a good way for Bochco to go.
Profiling Criminal MindsTouching Evil (US): Mercy, Show in Review
As we suspected, the final episode brought this show to a very satisfying end. BUT we still wanted it to go on. We spend most of the episode comparing it to…
Profiling Criminal MindsTouching Evil (US) - K, Love Lies Bleeding
How Dr. Redmond forgot to put this into the key, we will never know! This should have been our third podcast of Touching Evil (US). At least it is up before…
Profiling Criminal MindsTouching Evil (US): Entropy, Grief
Another couple of great episodes that fixed so many of the problems of the original. My apologies for ad placement - we are a little surprised after years with…
Profiling Criminal MindsTouching Evil (US): Attachment, Boston
Not only did they fix the remake, but their own brand new episode was absolutely great!
Profiling Criminal MindsTouching Evil (US): Slash 30, Memorial
Brilliant remakes. It was like they had listened to this podcast in the future. Glad someone else did the rewriting this time !
Profiling Criminal MindsTouching Evil (US): Y Me, Justine
They're hitting it out of the ballpark once again. A small quibble is all we could come up with.
Profiling Criminal MindsTouching Evil (US): Pilot
We were so surprised. This was a great remake - so much better than the original.
Profiling Criminal MindsTouching Evil: Season 3
Well, we're done with this one! Let's hope that the American one salvage something from these stories! But we do remember American Cracker :-(
Profiling Criminal MindsTouching Evil 203: What Price a Child?
Bleakness, bleakness, then doubling down on bleakness. And we still don't know who these people are :-(
Profiling Criminal MindsTouching Evil 202: War Relief
We have now finally got to the point of open hostility towards this show. Two more to go SIGH!!!!
Profiling Criminal MindsTouching Evil 201: Scalping
What was that!! We really don't have a clue, but great performances.
Profiling Criminal MindsTouching Evil 103: Deadly Web
Unrelenting in its bleakness. Once again an interesting story but we are still trying to become engaged. We start to understand Dave - maybe?
Profiling Criminal MindsTouching Evil 102: Killing With Kindness
Again a great story - with a number of very tense moments. We are still trying to figure out what is missing to make this a great show.
Profiling Criminal MindsTouching Evil 101: Through the Clouds
Fascinating storyline. Extremely competent detectives. But we can't stop seeing Tony Hill (Wire in the Blood) and Ruth (Spooks).
Profiling Criminal MindsPCM Bonus: Spotlight
Triggered by this movie, Sheila gets just a little revelatory about her past.
Profiling Criminal MindsPCM Bonus: Doubt
The people Sheila is discussing were using Shanley's play, "Doubt: A Parable". See the movie or read the play for yourself…
Profiling Criminal MindsPCM Bonus: Priest (1994)
One of Jimmy McGovern's best. A searing and controversial look at the problems of the priesthood in the Roman Catholic Church. Stay tuned on Thursday for the…
Profiling Criminal MindsCracker (US) Faustian Fitz and Series Retrospective
Well that's that! Such a waste of the talent that was Robbie Coltrane. Stay tuned for Priest and Doubt next week.
Profiling Criminal MindsCracker: Mind Over Murder: First Love Parts 1 and 2
Just a complete mess, and it was a 2-parter! We managed to come up with a rewrite using the raw data but it took forever.
Profiling Criminal MindsCracker: Mind Over Murder: The Club, Best Boys
All we can do is cry about this missed opportunities to make us cry!
Profiling Criminal MindsCracker: Mind Over Murder - An American Dream, If Part 1 and 2
The Spike Lee movie was School Days - early movie and controversial at the time.
Profiling Criminal MindsCracker Mind Over Murder: Sons and Lovers, Talk to Me
We were blown away by how good and how emotional these episodes were.