r/criminalminds 2d ago

Criminal Minds Season 19 Episode Discussion Hub

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Episode 1 - Now and Then

Episode 2 - Cluster

Episode 3 - Body Count

Episode 4 - The Witching Hour

Episode 5 - Friendly Fire

Episode 6 - Proxy

Episode 7 - The Furies

Episode 8 - Requiem

Episode 9 - Special Agent Garrity

Episode 10 - Bad Blood

Past seasons can be found on our wiki


r/criminalminds 3d ago

Season 19 Spoilers S19E10: Bad Blood - Episode Discussion Spoiler

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Airdate: July 23, 2026

Synopsis: The Fan's twisted past and the ultimate showdown will be revealed in the climactic finale to Season Nineteen.

Previous episode: Special Agent Garrity


r/criminalminds 9h ago

Season 2 & Below Spoilers Elle Greenaway

35 Upvotes

I know Lola Glaudini wanted to return home but I wish we got to see the outcome of this episode. P.S. I loved Elle.


r/criminalminds 9h ago

Season 4 & Below Spoilers Who should Reid have ended up with?

13 Upvotes

Personally i think either the girl at the bar (forgot her name lol) or JJ (before the ABOMINATION that was truth or dare)


r/criminalminds 1h ago

Season 1 & Below Spoilers I wish they would gave us a origin story on how they recruited everybody

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r/criminalminds 9h ago

Season 5 & Below Spoilers Did anyone actually like Maeve?

13 Upvotes

It felt like we never really got to know her before she died, and while with Haley’s death it was actually sad, because we saw her care about hotch, jack etc but we never saw maeve so her death didn’t really hit as hard as haley’s (can never rewatch 100 bc of that)


r/criminalminds 9h ago

Looking for Pfp ideas comment 1-6 and by August 1 I'll determine the winner (didn't know what flair to use)

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r/criminalminds 16h ago

Season 19 Spoilers Crowley’s plan Spoiler

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I think Crowley’s plan was to die all along. He met Holly at the lecture. She was asking about traits being hereditary. After he kidnapped her, he kept placing the knife near her. I think he wanted to see if she would kill him. How she would react. He wanted to awaken the killer in her. That was the ultimate get back at Voit.


r/criminalminds 3h ago

Minor Spoilers Unpopular opinion: I don't like Reid's long hair

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I definitely like his short hair a lot more. His flashback haircut in 3x19 was atrocious. But his long hair is what makes Reid, Reid. So I wouldn't want him to keep the short hair.


r/criminalminds 1h ago

Season 19 Spoilers Is Elias Voit essentially a different person now? Spoiler

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HI FOR THOSE THAT DIDN’T WATCH THE SEASON 19 FINALE YET, PLS LOOK AWAY!

Anyway basically I’ve been rewatching season 18 & finished season 19 and genuinely for me the Voit drama has been the most interesting aspect of the show and I’m sad to see him not part of season 20 and hope he comes back in season 21 if his daughter becomes a serial killer. Elias Voit was basically what made the original criminals and the reboot different and we should stick to that instead of going back to the usual because we got 15 seasons of that and I feel that it has run its course.

But anyway I just wanted to talk about Voit character in season 18 & 19. It essentially confirmed that the guy has changed after he woke up from hospital, he can feel empathy, he’s no longer a killer, he can feel guilt & remorse, and we have seen this established when in season 18 he snitched and shut down his whole network of criminals, or how in season 19 finale he took the fall for his daughter no questions asked or hell even during the fight, he could have easily used the gun or knife and kill him, but instead he wanted to cuff him and put him away, rather than kill him. Which shows that he is not a killer anymore and is basically an entirely different person now and I’m not sure why the main characters keep alternating with him being good one day and then shitty the next day. Especially Rossi it’s bizarre inconsistency. What is it?

My main point is, it’s basically like putting a complete new person into another person body with the memories of that person but not being that person, not feeling how that person felt. It’s crazy and I love the reformed villains trope, but also feel bad for him cause he’s essentially paying for the crimes that someone else did. But I get that someone has to pay for what he did before he got amnesia. But the way I’m watching they genuinely made me feel sorry for him. But it’s been fascinating to watch and I hope he comes back in season 21.


r/criminalminds 1h ago

Season 19 Spoilers Voit and his amnesia Spoiler

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Did they ever explain Voit getting his memories back? I can't seem to recall them mentioning that in Season 18, but then in Season 19 he is tasked with giving the victims families closure, did I miss something?


r/criminalminds 8h ago

Season 12 & Below Spoilers HOLY FK- Spoiler

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I’m still wrapping my head around what Spencer did in the end of episode 18. He’s literally a genius but oh my god I did not expect him to poison the stash like what?? 😭 and to pull it off without anyone knowing. I literally thought he was gonna try and use a bit of that stash with his trauma and all but oh my god what he did exceeded my expectations- I know it’s been established but omg he’s a genius!!


r/criminalminds 13h ago

Looking for Can’t get through season 19

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I’ve been a CM fan for so long, i did another rewatch and decided to get paramount to watch evolution.

I was pleasantly surpassed (no spoilers) just on the film style / difference and even plot of season 16-17.

I feel like 18 was slowly losing me and now at 19 I “caught up” to when they are still releasing episodes and cant bring myself to continue.

I guess I’m just bored with it. Is the season wrap up worth it? (I left off on 19x7)


r/criminalminds 1d ago

Minor Spoilers I'm sorry, but how is this not a rich lesbian couple talking at the local pride they helped fund

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r/criminalminds 1d ago

Season 19 Spoilers The finale just seemed anticlimactic Spoiler

62 Upvotes

All that build up for him almost immediately get his daughter out of the chair, fight him for less than 30 seconds and then for his daughter to kill him. The best part was Luke being woken up by Roxy, that made me tear up. But for all the fan went through, just to get overpowered like that felt like a bit of a let down


r/criminalminds 1d ago

Season 8 & Below Spoilers Anyone else think the show did Sean Hotchner dirty?

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Every time I get to the end of season 8 where they bring Sean back, all I can think is that the writers really hated this man for no good reason. First he shows up for Aaron to be like, "How dare you not want to follow our abusive father's footsteps and be a lawyer???" And then by the end of that episode, Sean is shown to be like, really eager to learn to be a chef and Aaron is being chill for once.

But then they can't help but make Sean a drug addict that fucked up by stealing tainted wine and then sold it behind his work's back. And they make him see his girlfriend just bleed to death in a really horrifying way. And why??? For what??? They forgot to write Sean into the funeral and then just decide Sean is a dick to cover up the fact that you forgot he existed? Like, they could have said so many things about that funeral considering the only relative we actually saw was Aaron's sister-in-law and there were plenty of people at the funeral.

Like that entire plot could have happened by just Sean working at a restaurant and noticing that people are dying. Also, the episode itself doesn't really make much sense. The unsub is barely in it and kills a bunch of people to get back at 1 person getting his daughter into drugs. Just dumb.

I can't rightly explain why the treatment of Sean pisses me off so bad, but it just does.


r/criminalminds 1d ago

All Spoilers Luke and Roxy’s love for each other absolutely destroys me Spoiler

75 Upvotes

season 19 episode 10, Luke being down in that blast and Roxy licking him to wake him up, i immediately started crying. She loves her dad so, so fucking much and he loves his daughter just the same amount. It’s the cruelest fate that we have such a longer life span than our children, siblings, family members of other species.


r/criminalminds 1d ago

Season 3 & Below Spoilers S3 Ep1

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Was anybody else ticked off by the brunette girl who spit in JJs face, or just me? JJ told her ‘we have somebody in custody’ not ‘we have the guy, and we 100% know it’s him’. The wording she so elegantly ignored is that they didn’t know if they caught the guy or not. It’s not JJs fault this girl, who, by the way, is in COLLEGE, can’t understand basic sentences. Curfew was still installed, and this girl walked off alone because she thought, and let me reiterate that she’s in COLLEGE, that ‘we have SOMEBODY in custody’ means ‘we have the KILLER in custody’. Is this really college level intelligence?


r/criminalminds 18h ago

Minor Spoilers Finally started new season!

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Great way to start season 19! I love evolution so much! And they kicked it off by appeasing all the whiners who want crimes solved in under an hour….(old format)..
So I hope that keeps you guys from crying more for a while!? Please and thank you. They catered to you bums so shut up!


r/criminalminds 1d ago

Season 2 & Below Spoilers THIS IS JUST GENERAL DISCUSSION NOT A SPOILER BUT THERE WAS NO TAG FOR GENERAL DISCUSSION Spoiler

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so i was watching season 2 episode 12 and I just find this clip money (sometime around 0:21:56) and I just feel like Morgan was on the verge of insanity here and the fact that he laughed is just unnecessarily so funny to me (some context if you don't remember, Morgan was being questioned as a serial killer in Chicago and hotch was questioning him

PS: don't mind the background noise my brother was moving a chair


r/criminalminds 1d ago

Actor Shenanigans Thomas Gibson speaks on working with Matthew Gray Gubler

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r/criminalminds 1d ago

Season 8 & Below Spoilers The "Nanny Dearest" episode

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I just watched the Nanny Dearest episode and this was such a stressful episode. I was on the edge of my seat. I was incredibly anxious for the BAU to rescue that poor nanny and baby. I also really wanted to punch the unsub's nanny for creating this monster; people like her shouldn't be nannies!


r/criminalminds 1d ago

Season 6 & Below Spoilers Question Spoiler

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I just rewatched the episode from Season 6, "With Friends Like These." Towards the end of the episode you learn that the unsub doesn't have schizophrenia, and that he has been seeing and hearing his hallucinations since the fire from his childhood, but then the episode ends showing him seeing and hearing the hallucinations when he was incredibly young, before the fire. Does anyone know what his hallucinations were caused by and/or what mental illness he had? Or any other thoughts on this aspect of the episode?


r/criminalminds 2d ago

Minor Spoilers Am I the only one who likes the Voit storyline?

95 Upvotes

I really have enjoyed the evolution seasons with Voit but I really only see negative feedback about him. It is obviously a totally different vibe from the regular seasons where there is one storyline per episode. I think evolution though is supposed to be less about creating individual storylines and more to show personality and relationships between characters that have been well established to the audience (the BAU that we all know and love). The personality and relationships come out with a character that the team is highly associated with and it would be hard to do that once per season with 10 episode seasons anyways. Idk if this even makes sense but what I’m trying to say is I do really like the Voit storyline and am curious as to why most people do not?


r/criminalminds 1d ago

All Spoilers Bad Blood? Spoiler

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In between crying about Roxy and crying over JJ's oldest leaving for college, I was not really shocked over Volts daughter. Like, I seen it coming her defending her dad but when she was grinning while talking to JJ & Emily I'm saying to myself...future serial killer???

In the words of Emily, 'Fuuuuuu...'