I think, because writing the reviews for each episode in a TV series is time-consuming and boring, that I may be fixing that ( Read more... )

So, as I’ve mentioned before and as anyone who actually reads this thing has seen, I’ve been using this journal not to blog about my life (I have my diary for that) but to do reviews and opinions on media based things.  Books, TV, movies, music and the like all get reviewed and opinionated here ( Read more... )

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This particular episode of Criminal Minds does go into the realm of really creepy.  The basic plot is that girls dressed up like dolls are being found dead by strokes and heart problems.

What’s really going on is that they’re being kidnapped to become living dolls for a very mentally ( Read more... )

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Ok so I tend to get a little happy whenever my city gets mentioned in a TV show.  Especially if it’s Criminal Minds because I have a fondness for serial killers and I take pride in where I live.  Where I live happens to be Buffalo, New York.  We don’t get mentioned a lot.  So when ( Read more... )

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Criminal Minds typically does a good job of taking a well worn theme and making it fresh and even more twisted.  This episode does a good job.

While the fantasy of the killer, that of being in a romantic relationship and playing out dates, is quite used, they did a good job of keeping ( Read more... )

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The 100th episode of Criminal Minds concludes our long plot about The Reaper and Hotchner and what will happen between the two.

I did like how they showed the episode in mostly flashbacks, as each person told the story to Chief Strauss.  It gave less of an urgency to the episode, yet ( Read more... )

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One of the things I have always loved about Criminal Minds is that it’s never truly predictable.  You may know some things, and be right about them, but you never know everything.  I like how recently they’ve started bringing past threads and killers back into the fold and extending ( Read more... )