By SHANNON NESSERALLA, Student Reporter
299 episodes, 15 seasons filled with murder, homicide, suicide and looking into the human mind. This is just what you can expect while watching “Criminal Minds.”
In each episode you can expect a new way that each killer has killed. You can also expect a different outcome during each episode. Whether they catch the killer, the killer ends their own life, and even in some episodes they manage to get away.
The show also has a great cast with multiple different personalities. One of the biggest personalities on the show is their technical analyst, Penelope Garcia. With how caring and loving she is to everyone on the show it offsets all the murder and crime that you see. You can also expect to see her in these crazy outgoing different outfits that she likes to wear.
Another interesting character is Dr. Spencer Reid. Dr. Reid is known on the show for being an absolute genius. He has an Eidetic memory, which means he can remember anything that is said to him, that he sees and that he reads.
He can also read 20,000 words in one minute. In the show by the age of 21 his character has obtained three doctorate degrees, one in mathematics, one in chemistry and the last one in engineering.
In almost all of the episodes, you can expect the same timeline of events to happen. In the beginning of the show, the team is going to get briefed on a murdering, a kidnapping or any other crime that has happened.
Then they’re going to show the team inside of a plane flying to whatever state they are planning on going to.
Also during this time, you’ll hear an inspirational quote that they do in every episode.
Upon arriving to the city, they will go to the crime scene or the abduction site and scope it out for any clues that they could find that could lead them back to the suspect.
After that, it’s all just trying to find the suspect who committed the crime.
In each episode they do their best to build up anticipation and to draw you in to what is happening.
In some episodes they’ll add in a twist. The ending of the episode always has some big event happen where they find the actual criminal, and they try to get them into custody.
But they have to do all sorts of mind games before they can put the handcuffs on the criminal willingly.
They also end each episode the same way that they began, with an inspirational quote.
“Criminal Minds” is available to stream on Netflix and includes the first 12 seasons.