Criminal Minds Wants You To Know That Profiling Is Useless

Here you'll find my reviews of the show Criminal Minds, as well as its sister show Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior, taking a look at the writing in general, and their treatment of 'profiling' in particular. You can also find my 'FactCheck' articles, where we take a look at the real-life serial killers that the episodes are based on!

Want to hear some in-depth thoughts about the show, as the Count rewatches episodes for the first time in years? Check out the Profiling Criminal Minds Podcast!

Also, if you'd like to get a look at an interactive map of the country showing where all the episodes are set (from season 3 onwards), just check out Penelope's Murder Map!

Curious about who Greg is? Click Here!

Season 1

1 - Extreme Aggressor (FactCheck)
2 - Compulsion
3 - Won't Get Fooled Again
4 - Plain Sight
5 - Broken Mirror
6 - LDSK
7 - The Fox
8 - Natural Born Killer (FactCheck)
9 - Derailed
10 - The Popular Kids
11 - Blood Hungry
12 - What Fresh Hell
13 - Poison
14 - Riding the Lightning
15 - Unfinished Business
16 - The Tribe
17 - A Real Rain
18 - Somebody's Watching
19 - Machismo
20 - Charm and Harm
21 - Secrets and Lies
22 - The Fisher King Part 1
Season 1 Retrospective

Season 2

1 - The Fisher King Part 2
2 - P911
3 - The Perfect Storm
4 - PsychoDrama
5 - Aftermath
6 - The Boogeyman
7 - North Mammon
8 - Empty Planet
9 - The Last Word
10 - Lessons Learned
11 - Sex, Birth, Death
12 - Profiler, Profiled
13 - No Way Out: Part 1
14 - The Big Game
15 - Revelations
16 - Fear and Loathing
17 - Distress
18 - Jones
19 - Ashes and Dust
20 - Honor Among Thieves
21 - Open Season
22 - Legacy
23 - No Way Out: Part 2: The Evilution of Frank
Season 2 Retrospective

Season 3

1 - Doubt
2 - In Birth and Death
3 - Scared to Death
4 - Children of the Dark
5 - Seven Seconds
6 - About Face
7 - Identity
8 - Lucky
9 - Penelope
10 - True Night
11 - Birthright
12 - 3rd Life
13 - Limelight
14 - Damaged
15 - A Higher Power
16 - Elephant`s Memory
17 - In Heat
18 - The Crossing
19 - Tabula Rasa
20 - Lo-Fi
Season 3 Retrospective!

Season 4

1 - Mayhem

2 - The Angel Maker

3 - Minimal Loss

4 - Paradise

5 - Catching Out

6 - The Instincts

7 - Memoriam

8 - Masterpiece

9 - 52 Pickup

10 - Brothers in Arms

11 - Normal

12 - Soul Mates

13 - Bloodline

14 - Cold Comfort

15 - Zoe's Reprise

16 - Pleasure is my Business

17 - Demonology

18 - Omnivore

19 - House on Fire

20 - Conflicted

21 - A Shade of Grey

22- The Big Wheel

23 - Roadkill

24 - Amplification

25 - To Hell...

26 - ...and Back
Season 4 Retrospective

Season 5

1 - Nameless, Faceless
2 - Haunted
3 - Reckoner
4 - Hopeless
5 - Cradle To Grave
6 - Eyes Have It
7 - The Performer
8 - Outfoxed (Addendum!)
9 - 100
10 - The Slave of Duty
11 - Retaliation
12 - The Uncanny Valley
13 - Risky Business
14 - Parasite
15 - Public Enemy
16 - Mosley Lane
17 - Solitary Man
18 - The Fight
19 - Rite of Passage
20 - A Thousand Words
21 - Exit Wounds
22 - The Internet is Forever
23 - Our Darkest Hour
Season 5 Retrospective

Season 6

1 - The Longest Night
2 - JJ
3 - Remembrance of Things Past
4 - Compromising Positions
5 - Safe Haven
6 - Devil's Night
7 - Middle Man
8 - Reflection of Desire
9 - Into the Woods
10 - What Happens at Home...
11 - 25 to Life
12 - Corazon
13 - The Thirteenth Step
14 - Sense Memory
15 - Today I Do
16 - Coda
17 - Valhalla
18 - Lauren
19 - With Friends Like These
20 - Hanley Waters
21 - The Stranger
22 - Out of the Light
23 - Big Sea
24 - Supply and Demand
Season 6 Retrospective

Season 7

1 - It Takes a Village
2 - Proof
3 - Dorado Falls
4 - Painless
5 - From Childhood's Hour
6 - Epilogue
7 - There's No Place Like Home
8 - Hope
9 - Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
10 - The Bittersweet Science
11 - True Genius
12 - Unknown Subject
13 - Snake Eyes
14 - Closing Time
15 - A Thin Line
16 - A Family Affair
17 - I Love You, Tommy Brown(!)
18 - Foundation
19 - Heathridge Manor
20 - The Company
21 - Diving Rod
22 - Profiling 101
23 - Hit
24 - Run
Season 7 Retrospective

Season 8

1 - The Silencer
2 - The Pact
3 - Through The Looking Glass
4 - God Complex
5 - The Good Earth
6 - The Apprenticeship
7 - The Fallen
8 - The Wheels on the Bus
9 - Magnificent Light
10 - The Lesson
11 - Perennials
12 - Zugzwang
13 - Magnum Opus
14 - All That Remains
15 - Broken
16 - Carbon Copy
17 - The Gathering
18 - Restoration
19 - Pay It Forward
20 - Alchemy
21 - Nanny Dearest
22 - #6
23 - Brothers Hotchner
24 -The Replicator
Season 8 Retrospective

Season 9

1 - The Inspiration
2 - The Inspired
3 - Final Shot
4 - To Bear Witness
5 - Route 66
6 - In the Blood
7 - Gatekeeper
8 - The Return
9 - Strange Fruit
10 - The Caller
11 - Bully
12 - The Black Queen
13 - The Road Home
14 - 200
15 - Mr. and Mrs. Anderson
16 - Gabby
17 - Persuasion
18 - Rabid
19 - The Edge of Winter
20 - Blood Relations
21 - What Happens in Mecklinburg...
22 - Fatal
23 - Angels
24 - Demons

Season 10

1 - X
2 - Burn
3 - A Thousand Suns
4 - The Itch
5 - Boxed In
6 - If the Shoe Fits
7 - Hashtag
8 - The Boys of Sudworth Place
9 - Fate
10 - Amelia Porter
11 - The Forever People
12 - Anonymous
13 - Nelson's Sparrow
14 - Hero Worship
15 - Scream
16 - Lockdown
17 - Breath Play
18 - Rock Creek Park
19 - Beyond Borders
20 - A Place at the Table
21 - Mr. Scratch
22 - Protection
23- The Hunt

Season 11

1 - The Job
2 - The Witness
3 - Til Death Do Us Part
4 - Outlaw
5 - The Night Watch
6 - Pariahville
7 - Target Rich
8 - Awake
9 - Internal Affairs
10 - Future Perfect
11 - Entropy
12 - Drive
13 - The Bond
14 - Hostage
15 - A Badge and a Gun
16 - Derek
17 - The Sandman
18 - A Beautiful Disaster
19 - Tribute
20 - Inner Beauty
21 - Devil's Backbone
22 - The Storm

Season 12

1 - The Crimson King
2 - Sick Day
3 - Taboo
4 - Keeper
5 - The Anti-Terror Squad
6 - Elliot's Pond
7 - Mirror Image
8 - Scarecrow
9 - Profiling 202
10 - Seek and Destroy
11 - Surface Tension
12 - A Good Husband
13 - Spencer
14 - Collision Course
15 - Alpha Male
16 - Assistance is Futile
17 - In the Dark
18 - Hell's Kitchen
19 - True North
20 - Unforgettable
21 - Green Light
22 - Red Light

Season 13

1 - Wheels Up
2 - To a Better Place
3 - Blue Angel
4 - Killer App
5 - Lucky Strikes
6 - The Bunker
7 - Dust and Bones
8 - Neon Terror
9 - False Flag
10 - Submerged
11 - Full-Tilt Boogie
12 - Bad Moon on the Rise
13 - Cure
14 - Miasma
15 - Annihilator
16 - Last Gasp
17 - The Capilanos
18 - The Dance of Love
19 - Ex Parte
20 - All You Can Eat
21 - Mixed Signals
22 - Believer

Season 14

1 - 300
2 - Starter Home
3 - Rule 34
4 - Innocence
5 - The Tall Man
6 - Luke
7 - Twenty Seven
8 - Ashley
9 - Broken Wing
10 - Flesh and Blood
11 - Night Lights
12 - Hamelin
13 - Chameleon
14 - Sick and Evil
15 - Truth or Dare

Season 15

1 - Under the Skin
2 - Awakenings
3 - Spectator Slowing
4 - Saturday
5 - Ghost
6 - Date Night
7 - Rusty
8 - Family Tree
9 - Face Off
10 - And in the End...

Season 16

1 - Just Getting Started

2 - Sicarius

Criminal Minds: Suspect Behaviour

1 - Two of a Kind

2 - Lonely Heart

3 - See No Evil
4 - One Shot Kill
5 - Here is the Fire
6 - Devotion (Fake Journalism!)
7 - Jane
8 - Nighthawk
9 - Smother
10 -The Time is Now
11 - Strays (Addendum!)
12 - The Girl in the Blue Mask
13 - Death By a Thousand Cuts
Suspect Behaviour is Over
The Suspect Behaviour Picto-Quiz!