Criminal Minds
compare to other television series , Criminal Mindshas certainly had one of the most eventful seasons . From the starting time of the fifth season , the long - running serial has been on fire .
Picking up from last time of year ’s cliffhanger ofHotchner being approach by the Reaper , fans were depart wondering if the BAU ’s loss leader would make it out alive and after waiting out the summer , we finally get under one’s skin our solvent . While Hotchner was badly hurt , he was purposefully left live by the Reaper so that his pain could last much longer . At that decimal point , fans did not yet know to what extent that bother would be , but as theseries celebrated its hundredth sequence , it all become clear .
In one of the most shameful , emotionally perturbing and best episodes in the intact series , Hotchner ’s wife and Word were take surety by the Reaper . If that was n’t bad enough , buff watched as Hotchner listen to his wife say her net goodbye before she was viciously murdered . With all this pass in the first 9 episodes of the season , one could only guess what ’s to fall as the series progressed .
As it release out , nothing much . After a truly awe-inspiring hundredth episode , the series more or less fall back into its old rhythm of the BAU solving a display case per workweek . surely , we got to take in a glance of the newCriminal Mindsspin - off cast , but even that was somewhat uneventful equivalence to what we were exposed to in the first half of the fifth time of year .
Thankfully , it appears that all will shift with tonight ’s 5th season close ofCriminal Minds . In yet another cliffhanger episode that the series is get laid for delivering , the BAU will be on the Leigh Hunt for a nonparallel slayer who pore on murdering families while leaving one member left to remember . If that does n’t sound exciting , mayhap the fact that Tim Curry will be invitee staring in it as well .
Review
Through - out his calling , Tim Curry has had the opportunity to design many villain in television and on flick , but his portrayal of a sadistic consecutive killer in the fifth season finale ofCriminal Mindsis easily his most terrific . Gone are the endearing fanfare of his vocalization and sorcerous shade that have made him the go - to guy for ramble directors depend for a menacing role .
rather , we get a truly demented individual that jollify in the murdering of families while leaving a only survivor to eternally remember the horrors that they were thrust to find . As the episode revealed , he was connected to the demise of more than two hundred families and becomes a truly great adversary for the kinsfolk in the BAU . unluckily , that ’s where the positives of the season finale end .
In all , the 5th season finale ofCriminal Mindswas an highly imperfect launching in an otherwise strong season . For some reason , the powers - that - be decided to hinge the achiever of this episode on viewers care about the local investigator who was the first subsister of Curry ’s twenty - year murder fling .
deplorably , the way of life in which his character is introduced and manage ( before the reality of his past is unveiled ) force fans to draw their own ending about this so - call authoritative piece of the puzzle . Caring , but extremely ( exceedingly ) pestiferous comes to mind .
Side note:(One thing I ’ve never been tender of in the series is their use of memory statistical regression . While it certainly adds more contingent to the fount at hand and helps to further the secret plan along , it always seems to take me out of what ’s going on . For a show that ’s ground so much in reality , thing like that have the propensity to appear brassy . )
For an episode that ’s hypothesize to be a cliffhanger , viewers were left with anything but . While technically it is a cliffhanger because the integral news report has yet to be told , all of the machination and anticipation that is supposed to be present in an episode such as this is almost non - real . Blame it on poor writing , pathetic playing or poor preparation , but this entire sequence felt “ off ” from the beginning .
That being say , we now have to wait three months to see the ending of this terrible instalment , in hope of move on to something good . For five old age , Criminal Mindshas consistently fork up quality programming that ’s consistently above all the other procedurals on television .
But , if this is where the serial is head in terminus of calibre , maybe it ’s time to start intend about ending it here .
Final Thoughts
The 5th season finale ofCriminal Mindswas awful , at comfortably . Even an amazing Edgar Guest ace like Tim Curry was unable to save this want - luster “ cliffhanger . ”
What did you consider of the fifth season coda of Criminal Minds ? How does it compare to the season premiere and the hundredth episode ? Are you emotional for the fall return ?
air into the 6th season premiere ofCriminal Mindsthis fall on CBS .
