The Behavioral Analysis Unit of the FBI is busy chasing serial killers in this fifth season. The Big Bad for about half of it is George Foyet, AKA The Reaper (C. Thomas Howell), a character introduced in season 4 as a nemesis to Agent Aaron Hotchner (Thomas Gibson). This season also introduced a backdoor pilot for a spinoff series, Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior, starring Forrest Whitaker that only lasted one season. My girl Penelope Garcia (Kirsten Vangsness) takes a larger role and gets a spiffy red dye job, while Agent Derek Morgan (Shemar Moore) takes control of the team for a little bit.
Notable guest stars include Gavin Rossdale, Sean Patrick Flanery, William Sadler, Beth Grant, Jonathan Frakes, John Pyper Ferguson, and Tim Curry.
This is a comfort show for me in a lot of ways. The Monster of the Week format is predictable, therefore soothing, the gore and violence are mostly implied (it's a network TV show, so there's a lot of shit they just can't show but they toe that line as much as possible), and the characters are familiar. It did take me about a week to watch all 23 episodes but I made it in time, and that's all that counts. It's currently streaming on Paramount+, Netflix, and Hulu.
Well, that wraps up my month-long journey into horror. Adding TV was somewhat more stressful, just because it takes a lot longer to watch, but I would probably do it again. Tomorrow we go back to our regularly scheduled nonsense and postings on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday (when I can, sometimes I forget).
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