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I like AR, but I was really put off by his acting in this episode. Some of his facial expressions were over the top, and I didn’t find his emotional stuff believable. He had a lot to do since he basically carried this episode, but this was not his best work. And what is with AJC’s wide-eyed acting technique this season? Very distracting.

Boring and predictable. And the Garcia parts...neither the writing nor the acting justified the amount of time devoted to the B story.

I get that 18 year-old Garcia didn't want her brothers to blame her for their parents' deaths, but the CM writers clearly want us to believe that today's Garcia has evolved from her younger self--someone who does the right thing. But she still didn't tell her brother about the note.

This was soooo bad. Some random observations: So Garcia never shared the contents of the note with her brothers? What kind of person does that? I'm sure KV is a lovely person, but this episode highlighted her shortcomings as an actress. I really don't like it when Reid-type exposition is provided by characters who have no reason to know the things they are saying. And I also noticed that while it took three members of the team to do the computer work in this episode, they did manage to do it successfully and timely on regular old laptops. Maybe Garcia's super-computer and magical apps are over-rated.

Worse than what Reid did with Owen Savage, and Hotch really let Reid have it. Not a good episode, in my opinion. As soon as the wife threw the new phone in her bag, it was clear that the phone would be key.

Please help me understand--what's wrong with lying to a suspect during an interrogation? It's perfectly legal and even constitutional. Hotch was against lying to a victim's family/witness to get access, but that is an entirely different thing. Why do you object to lying to a suspect?

I like AR, but I was not impressed with his direction here. Granted, the script was awful, so he wasn't given a lot to work with. How much time passed between Barnes' big announcement about their futures and when we saw each of the team members in their new assignments?

This was an utterly ridiculous episode. Part of a poorly thought-out arc. I felt sorry for the actors. And the viewers. It insulted our intelligence and our loyalty to these characters.

Ugh. My first thought was, "Please don't give us an entire episode of that."

Who wrote this? I thought the dialog was distractingly clunky and overly dramatic. Rossi uttering the words, "This unsub will remain in the shadow of the night" had me rolling my eyes. I felt bad for the actors. And us. I hated ninjaJJ for several seasons, partly due to how she was written and partly due to how she was portrayed. She's been toned down for the past couple of seasons, and I've found her tolerable. The end of this episode does not bode well. I hope they resist their urges to make her an all-knowing super ninja again. Could we possibly have one episode where Garcia turns to the team and says, "Sorry, I've got nothing. I guess you guys are going to just need to use your profiling skills to solve this one"?

I thought the storytelling here was very amateurish. The whole "same scene from different characters' perspectives" thing has been done so much better elsewhere. I was way too aware of the clunky direction to be able to enjoy the story itself. Did JM direct this? I agree with others that the actress playing the unsub was good.

Is MGG filming Zoe right now? Anyone heard of any behind the scenes shenanigans?

I just watched MGG's movie, "Hot Air." Did anyone else stream it live tonight? It was really good! A very charming movie, and he was fantastic in it.

Just read that the North American rights to MGG's movie 68 Kill just got picked up.

Well said, normasm.