By Kaitlyn Goldberg – Staff Reporter

The CBS crime drama “Criminal Minds” follows the Behavioral Analysis Unit of the FBI in Quantico, Virginia as they use the art of behavioral profiling to hunt down serial killers. The team is unique because they use not only evidence to solve the crimes, but using behavior to get into the mind of the criminal (hence the name of the show “Criminal Minds”)

In Season One, the team consists of Unit Chief Aaron Hotchner, Jason Gideon, Derek Morgan, Spencer Reid, Elle Greenaway, Jennifer Jaureau who is the communications liaison and technical analyst Penelope Garcia.  The show consists of 15 seasons and the three team members who continuously stayed throughout the entire series and they are Dr. Spencer Reid (Matthew Gray Gubler) a genius with an IQ of 187 who can read 20,000 words per minute; Jennifer Jaurau (Aj Cook), a communications liaison eventually turned profiler; and Penelope Garcia (Kirsten Vangsness), the FBI’s technical analyst and also has a special relationship with profiler Derek Morgan (Shemar Moore) The other cast members overtime eventually leave the show being replaced by other characters. 

As the seasons progress viewers see the character development of each character as they all go through things to change them. For example, Spencer Reid went through some traumatic events during the course of his time at the BAU which made him go from being completely awkward and antisocial to being more social, outgoing and all around a stronger person.  Another good thing about  the show is that it’s not like any other crime show where they use evidence, they use the killers behavior from the crime scenes and how these people were murdered and that is what ultimately gets them to find the killers. That’s what makes it so interesting because viewers get to see what makes the bad guys do what they do and how the team solves it in such a unique interesting way that is not portrayed on most other crime shows.

The only thing  in the show that could’ve been better is that there are some plot holes. Some things that happened to the characters would get dropped and never spoken of again that the show could’ve made into something much bigger that would’ve been very interesting to watch  Overall, what makes the show good is the unique plot and way of looking at serial crimes and it is definitely worth watching. 

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars