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Season 1 – Criminal Minds

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An elite squad of FBI profilers analyzes the country's most-twisted criminal minds, anticipating the perpetrators' next moves before they can strike again. Each member of the "mind hunter" team brings his or her expertise to pinpoint predators' motivations and identify emotional triggers to stop them. The core group includes an official profiler who is highly skilled at getting into the minds of criminals, a quirky genius, the former media liaison who manages to adeptly balance family life and the job, and a computer wizard.
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Criminal Minds — Season 1

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Critics Consensus

Criminal Minds attempts -- largely unsuccessfully -- to disguise the ordinariness of its standard procedural premise with extra gore and highbrow literary references.

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Robert Lloyd Los Angeles Times Good at being what [it is]. Aug 10, 2017 Full Review David Bianculli New York Daily News Patinkin, as team leader, exhorts his colleagues to try, try again - and do better. The entire "Criminal Intent" team would be wise to heed such advice, and quickly. Aug 10, 2017 Full Review Phil Gallo Variety Richard Shepard's poised direction sharply frames Jeff Davis' cut-and-dry script. Sep 22, 2005 Full Review Elliot Panek Common Sense Media Like most good crime dramas, the long-running series offers detective stories full of interesting details and lots of suspense. Rated: 4/5 Nov 7, 2019 Full Review Rob Owen Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Solidly plotted and filmed, the pilot has a nice bookended structure that delivers a surprising, unexpected conclusion. Dec 14, 2018 Full Review People Staff People Magazine The mysteries have nice touches. Aug 10, 2017 Full Review Read all reviews

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Landen D Top 3 Show for me. What sets it apart from other crime shows is how it shows how they profile the "unsub". Also grow to love the Characters. Great rewatch value as well surprisingly. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 04/14/25 Full Review Waniya S loved it, garcia is my fav babe! Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/04/25 Full Review Sg M watched first episode on friend's recommendation. was enjoyable Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 10/25/24 Full Review Aloysius M Criminal Minds is the only TV show I feel comfortable with, I watched it from season one to the last and I felt really happy, although sometimes it's sad when I remember that some of the characters are no longer there. :( cracking! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 06/11/24 Full Review Saoirse E The best crime show ever. So bingeable! Every episode has a group of FBI behaviour analysts and a tech analyst with lots of personality. Throughout the seasons all the characters are involved in a fair share of trauma to build story and character (although some plots were useless). I love everything about this show except for 2 things: 1. One episode something EXTREMELY traumatic would happen and the next episode they are normal, yet the trauma will come back to them episodes later and be resolved in that episode. 2. Reid and JJ. I think we all shipped them a bit in the beginning because the writers (it seemed like at least) were trying to push them together. However, then out of nowhere (I was sooooo shocked), JJ likes Will from one of the cases. They dated, got married, and had kids in like the span of what felt like a year. But then in season 13 and so much in 14 they straight up start putting them together like JJ isn’t married and had kids. They could’ve added a new character for Reid Rather than making JJ be weird for being kind of romantic with Reid. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 04/29/24 Full Review babarizam Why this show even exist? it has no logic handling cases which comes under police jurisdiction, plus terrible acting Rated 1 out of 5 stars 12/14/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Jeff Davis

Creator

Mandy Patinkin

Jason Gideon

Thomas Gibson

Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner

Shemar Moore

Derek Morgan

Matthew Gray Gubler

Dr. Spencer Reid

Lola Glaudini

Elle Greenaway

Episodes

Episode 1 Aired Sep 22, 2005 Extreme Aggressor When a fourth woman goes missing in Seattle in as many months, the team must profile her captor and find him before he strikes again. Details Episode 2 Aired Sep 28, 2005 Compulsion When an arsonist sets fire to a college campus, little physical evidence remains, forcing Gideon and his team to rely on psychological analysis to identify the perpetrator. Details Episode 3 Aired Oct 5, 2005 Won't Get Fooled Again While investigating a serial bomber's attack on a small town, Gideon learns that the perpetrator is a protege of his nemesis, who had murdered his previous team of profilers. Details Episode 4 Aired Oct 12, 2005 Plain Sight A rapist and murderer in San Diego commits the crimes in the daylight but eludes authorities. Details Episode 5 Aired Oct 19, 2005 Broken Mirror The Behavioral Analysis Unit quickly determines that the person who kidnapped the daughter of a U.S. district attorney was actually after the victim's twin. Details Episode 6 Aired Nov 2, 2005 L.D.S.K. The Behavioral Analysis Unit is called in to identify a killer who is shooting at victims in broad daylight. Details Episode 7 Aired Nov 9, 2005 The Fox The FBI team attempts to catch a killer who preys on families while they are supposed to be away on vacation. Details Episode 8 Aired Nov 16, 2005 Natural Born Killer The Behavioral Analysis Unit believes a serial killer is responsible when an undercover police officer investigating the mob is taken captive. Details Episode 9 Aired Nov 23, 2005 Derailed Hotchner and Gideon race to save Elle and her fellow passengers when a paranoid schizophrenic man has a delusional episode on a train and takes the other riders hostage. Details Episode 10 Aired Nov 30, 2005 The Popular Kids When two high-school students are murdered in a small town, Hotchner and his team suspect they may have been the victims of a cult killing. Details Episode 11 Aired Dec 14, 2005 Blood Hungry Hotchner and his team attempt to get inside the mind of a psychotic killer whose fantasies lead him to murder. Details Episode 12 Aired Jan 11, 2006 What Fresh Hell? The alibi of an abducted girl's father clears him of suspicion, leaving the profilers to search her seemingly safe neighborhood for the person who is responsible. Details Episode 13 Aired Jan 18, 2006 Poison The team tries to determine who is poisoning residents of a small town. Details Episode 14 Aired Jan 25, 2006 Riding the Lightning Gideon becomes convinced of a woman's innocence when the team interviews husband-and-wife serial killers just days before their scheduled executions. Details Episode 15 Aired Mar 1, 2006 Unfinished Business Gideon, Hotchner and their team reopen the unsolved case of a serial killer who has attacked someone for the first time in 20 years. Details Episode 16 Aired Mar 8, 2006 The Tribe The BAU team investigates the mass murder of college students, similar to wartime methods used by an Indian tribe long ago. Details Episode 17 Aired Mar 22, 2006 A Real Rain A series of murders in Manhattan seems random at first, then the police fear that a serial killer may be copying the crimes of another decades earlier. Details Episode 18 Aired Mar 29, 2006 Somebody's Watching Dr. Reid falls for a Hollywood starlet at the center of a murder investigation. Details Episode 19 Aired Apr 12, 2006 Machismo Gideon, Hotchner and their team head to Mexico to aid in the investigation of a serial killer who preys on the elderly. Details Episode 20 Aired Apr 19, 2006 Charm and Harm Gideon, Hotchner and their team race across the South in pursuit of a chameleonlike killer. Details Episode 21 Aired May 3, 2006 Secrets and Lies A leak of classified information from the CIA puts the lives of several operatives at risk, so the team works swiftly to expose the mole. Details Episode 22 Aired May 10, 2006 The Fisher King Team members become pawns in the fantasy game of a psychopathic killer, who challenges them to unravel a series of clues in hope of saving his next victim. Details

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Season Info

Director
Guy Bee, Charlie Haid, Andy Wolk, Thomas J. Wright, Matt Earl Beesley, Felix Alcala, Chris Long
Creator
Jeff Davis
Executive Producer
Mark Gordon, Edward Allen Bernero
Screenwriter
Edward Allen Bernero, Debra J. Fisher, Simon Mirren, Jeff Davis, Aaron Zelman, Judith McCreary, Andrew Wilder, Ed Napier, Chris Mundy, Erica Messer
Network
Paramount+
Rating
TV-14 (V|L)
Genre
Crime, Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
English
Release Date
Sep 22, 2005