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I have to give credit to this episode for being decently lit for the most part. I could barely see half of what was going on in the other episodes. There was also less Garcia than usual, which was pleasant. Henry makes me feel ancient. In my head he’s still that adorable bright eyed toddler in the S7 finale which was … 11 years ago. Yikes. Good to see him and his brother again. Makes me wonder how Jack is doing. I like this Emily/Rossi silver-haired power couple thing they’ve got going. Still don’t care about the serial killer part of this serial killer show.

This might be my favourite of all the episodes I’ve seen so far, mainly because I loved Emily in it. I enjoyed her interaction with Bailey and the migraine scene with Garcia. I didn’t mind that this was a run-of-the-mill serial killer case. I’m utterly bored with the Sicarius storyline and can’t care less about Volt’s family life. It was the little moments that made this episode for me - Bailey comforting Grace, Grace telling Ashley not to blame herself because she made the same choice with Terry, Tawny and Lewis (poor Moose!), Emily in almost every scene. Can’t stand the whole Garcia/Tyler bit. Garcia’s lack of professionalism is deeply grating.

I think I relate to Elias more than I should. When he grumbled about how if he wants something done properly, he has to do it himself, I was all, This is me minus the serial killer network. What always fascinated me about true crime is what makes people cross that line and give into their murderous impulses. Sure, I’ve wanted to bash my annoying racist neighbour’s head in more than once but I wouldn’t be able to do it. I wish CM would go into that - like Daniel said above, what makes Elias Voit tick? I think I like this smaller BAU team. The cast felt too bloated towards the end of the original run. I don’t miss Simmons. I don’t even miss Reid, because his absence spares me from the Jeid nonsense that got dragged out in the last 2 seasons. Garcia annoys me less in here than before. I’m weirdly OK with this revival. Must be the Covid getting to me.

I am housebound with Covid (finally succumbed after almost 3 years) and decided to watch the first episode on Disney+. Surprisingly, I didn’t hate it. I always say CM is my comfort TV and found it very soothing to hear our characters’ voices profiling the UNSUB. My main complaint is the lighting of this show. It’s so dark I can barely see anything on my screen. Maybe it’s my TV. I’m on the second episode now and I have no idea what I’m watching. Are teenage girls still named Jessie, Chrissy and Katelyn these days? I would’ve thought they come from the generation of Olivia’s, Ava’s, and Isabella’s. Meanwhile all of the baby girls I know who were born in the last 2 years are named Isla/Ayla.

Sorry to hear about your job @Bookish Jen but I hope this is the universe’s way to lead you to bigger and better opportunities. On the topic of good books, I’ve been listening to Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver on Audible. It’s a retelling of David Copperfield in southwest Virginia and I really like it so far! Hope everyone is keeping well.

I’m happy to share the news of my nephew’s arrival on September 6. His parents settled on Nathaniel, which albeit is not the name of an UNSUB on CM that immediately comes to my mind, does happen to be the name of a suspected cannibalistic serial killer in real life. His Chinese name means “learned scholar”. We’re trying to keep his options open. Hope everyone is well.

Saw some promo photos of the first episode of the reboot, can’t say I am impressed. I love Joe Mantegna but Rossi is starting to look like the old man on the first edition of The Giver. Prentiss looks like she’s aged about 10 years. Lewis and Alvez still look pretty good, can’t really tell with JJ. I just want to watch pretty profilers with semi-decent MOTW cases. If the show could go back to its roots, I’d be happy to sign up for the reboot, but nope, not this. Just the idea of a pandemic inspired network of serial killers makes me cringe. The last few seasons were painful, but this looks even worse.

This is how I feel as well, Daniel. I’ll probably be sitting this one out, as I don’t have Paramount+ where I live anyway. I’ll stick to rewatching the early seasons on my Disney+.

Before Audible existed (I’m talking early 90’s), my mom would borrow books on tape from the library for me and my brother and this was one of my favourites.

Paget played Hilary Duff’s mom in How I Met Your Father. They gave her a better wig and more flattering clothes, and she’s looking fiiiiine.

Caught MGG in a recurring guest role in Dollface, in which he plays a cat doctor. Got to hear him say, “Do you know how many dicks he ate?” in relation to the sick cat. There was a moment or two where the character reminded me of Reid and his very first scene is reminiscent of his meet-cute with Max in the park.

Thank you, Daniel. I tend to agree with your view on Covid, but the parts where I’m from are still insistent on a zero-tolerance approach, so we’re pretty much doomed. There have been local reports about women miscarrying after getting the vaccine. My SIL’s OBGYN had a patient who lost her baby this way. It could well have been sheer misfortune, but it’s hard not to have that worry hanging over her head. SIL has already had two doses of Pfizer so it’s really just whether or not to get the booster now. Naming conventions differ depending on the family, I think. In the past, people did tend to choose names with characters that have an auspicious meaning - fortune, joy, wisdom, etc. My generation is more about how the name sounds over meaning, resulting in some trendy names that are overpopulating playgrounds. Think the Chinese version of Olivia and Liam. Then there’s a bunch of people who will hire Feng Shui masters to come up with a perfect name based on the baby’s date and hour of birth. Yep, my nephew will have a Chinese name and an English name. The birth certificate will likely state both names. In fact, my legal name in English does not contain a transliteration of my Chinese name, which made my life growing up in North America infinitely easier. I do have my Chinese name (in Chinese characters) on locally issued ID documents but I use my English name on a day-to-day basis. Only family and very close friends would use my Chinese name. My Chinese name is definitely more “me”. I have a very uncommon Chinese name that nobody, not even native Chinese speakers, knows how to pronounce, but I also have a super popular 1980’s English first name (not quite Jennifer or Sarah, but close) so it works out evenly. Daniel, you’ll probably like this. In Zoe’s Reprise, Rossi says my last name, albeit incorrectly :)

Thank you so much! Our city is getting hit pretty hard by omicron (while the rest of the world has moved on, how embarrassing) and my SIL is struggling over whether or not to get the booster. She has to weigh the increased risk of miscarriage against potential complications of getting Covid. It’s tough. Hotch has a much easier last name to deal with! Ours is a one-syllable Chinese last name that is forever mispronounced. On top of that, the name has to be pronounceable by the grandparents, whose first language is not English. We all loved Lorelai for a girl but that was ruled out because none of the grandparents would be able say it properly. Nathan is a top contender at the moment, though I prefer Nathaniel. Either way, I could call him Nate the Great ;)

My brother and his wife are expecting a baby boy at the end of August. Both of them had been hoping for a girl so they had girls’ names picked out already, but nothing for a boy. I’ve been asked to think of names, so I suggested Reid, and was vetoed. Gideon also got a hard no. The names they like? Cyrus. Nathan. Tobias. They literally only like the names of UNSUBs. (To be fair Nathan Harris wasn’t an actual UNSUB but he could have become one. RIP, Anton Yelchin.) Maybe I’ll suggest George, Peter and Everett for them to consider.

Rewatched True Genius and just wanted to say how much I liked everyone’s hair in this episode, especially Emily’s and JJ’s. I even like Reid’s. The episode was OK, one of the better ones of the season. I liked the scene between Reid and Prentiss and probably relate to it too much. Sometimes I wonder if I could/should have done more, or at least something else, with my life. I’m nowhere near a genius, just a disgruntled millennial with a job I happen to be very good at but loathe intensely. S7 episodes I tend to rewatch most: the premiere, the one with the Piano Man, this one, Foundation, Profiling 101 (for the hilariously awful flashbacks) and the last 5 minutes of the season finale.

Finally watched Rusty and the stuffed goat mascot made me laugh hysterically every time it showed up. Liked: the talk about the Mandela effect, Curious George: tail or no tail, Reid being a cowboy in another life … that’s about it. Re kidnapping your son from a parallel universe, Fringe did it 10 years ago. No goats involved. Dislike: Emily and Mendoza - she really is not that into him. Gratuitous close-ups of decapitated corpses. Suggestion of a headless 7-year-old. These writers like to recycle the name “Ethan” a lot, don’t they?

I watched this and had a dead dove moment. I knew it was going to be bad. And it was bad. I wish my self from 7 years ago, who had the good sense to skip this episode when it first aired, would have time-traveled and talked me out of watching this. At least the fist bump between Reid and Hotch was cute.

I watched this episode and North Mammon back to back. I enjoyed both and thought AJC did a good job in both. JJ looks very different - all the soft edges to her are gone, and her voice is lower than it was in S2. I thought the bit in the beginning with her younger son asking for lime juice on his eggs was cute.

I am extremely fond of Reid’s passport photo. That’s all.

I’m watching the later seasons (10+) completely out of order and I can see why fans watching the show live would’ve been irritated waiting week after week only to be given dreck, I find watching it in bits and pieces makes the terrible writing a lot more bearable. First episode: Dr Abbott from Everwood became a serial killer! I knew from the casting alone he had to be involved. Lynch is a boring mash-up of several UNSUBs past and I’ve never been into any storylines about season-long big bads. Is Grace supposed to be a teenager/early twenties? Because she looks like she’s 32. As someone said above, she looks the same age as Lynch. Second episode: Sharon Lawrence was in an SVU episode 20-odd years ago, also called Chameleon. That was a better episode than this one. I don’t believe for a minute that Reid’s been envisioning a future with JJ for the last 15 years - have they forgotten Maeve? MGG and Jane Lynch were brilliant, their scenes made my heart ache. On a random note, one of my friends used to have a snag-toothed Persian cat called Spencer, so to me Spencer will always be a cat’s name. He was a lovely cat, but now I cannot stand anyone calling Reid “Spence” or “Spencer” except his mother. Whenever JJ calls him Spence, I cringe. Don’t even get me started on Cat Adams’ “Spencie” which, to be fair, is intended to be cringeworthy.

I liked this episode, but then again Prentiss has always been my favourite. I am willing to overlook bad writing and cases that don’t make a whole lot of sense if it means Prentiss gets to be centre stage. Yes, I even like Demonology and Honor Among Thieves. I feel so sad for poor David, who really never had a chance. How many kids does Emily secretly keep tabs on, by the way? Is she still funding that boarding school education/college tuition/grad school for Declan Doyle? I love a lot of things about In Name and In Blood (JJ being awesome at handling the local cops, Strauss freaking out over stepping on the victim’s hair, Hotch visiting Emily’s much nicer apartment and asking her to come with him to Milwaukee). This episode is nowhere close but I still prefer it to Lucky Strikes, which I hated so much I think I gave up on the show a second time after that episode. Wardrobe and makeup are unkind to the actresses on this show. Lastly, I have always loved the opening quote: What is past is prologue. It brings back memories of a trip to the East Coast I took several years ago when I visited D.C. I can see why long time viewers watching this show live would not have liked this episode, but I’m pretty happy with it. Maybe I’ve just mellowed in my old age.

IIRC they weren’t novels, they were memoirs or something of the sort. Books about his career and the cases he’d worked on, much like John Douglas published books about his career at the real life BAU. Rossi did a book reading in Cleveland, blew a fan off, and she got murdered. Season 4’s Zoe’s Reprise.

I recently got Disney+ which, to my delight, has all 15 seasons of CM in my region. So I finally got to watch this episode, and I enjoyed it. Loved all the Emily parts except the bad wig, and the bite with Paul F Thompkins filled me with glee. I have bad insomnia and I used to listen to the Thrilling Adventure Hour podcast in the wee hours of the night, so this was a treat. Simmons, Garcia, Alvez - nope, still don’t care. Enjoyed Reid’s meet-cute with Max in the park even though his hair was a travesty. Lewis - I liked her interaction with JJ and PFT’s character. JJ/Reid - I am not into this. It feels wrong. Since when did Rossi write true-crime novels?

I really liked this show! The Christmas episode was hilarious, and I still crack up at the mental image of the older son joining the girls’ field hockey team while some Kelly Clarkson song plays in the background.

I (along with the rest of the world) watched Squid Game a couple of weeks back and the set up of the games reminded me of Legacy, so I rewatched that over the weekend. It’s not my favourite episode of the season, but I do love the quiet smack down Hotch gives the Kansas City police chief who says, “Can bums even be missing?” Also this episode and, I think, Birthright in S3, gave me fleeting Hotch/JJ vibes. Plus Reid getting propositioned by prostitutes never gets old.