Top 10 Things Criminal Minds Gets Factually Right and Wrong

[@MsMojo]

What do YOU think “Criminal Minds” gets right or wrong? Let us know below, and be sure to also check out our video of the Top 10 Most Heroic Criminal Minds Moments - kzbin.info/www/bejne/iXO3YaZ9qK2spdE

[@HariSeldon913]

The timeline and personal involvement is every police show that's ever been made. Ok, maybe Dragnet didn't do the personal involvement, but that's because Jack Webb was a robot.

[@PokhrajRoy.]

I was mostly tuned into ogling at Shemar Moore and Matthew Gray Gubler and relating to Penelope being chaotic looking for things in her office.

[@ChaoticNalilitoMC]

same tbh

[@Mama-eu1ss]

👍

[@shaynahoffman5693]

Total eye candy

[@DanaArmas]

Oohs these officers. I did use a imagine dragons cutout in my bedroom

[@elysecatmull3404]

To be fair, the show does *sometimes* show that they get the profile wrong. More often than not, they don't, but sometimes they do.

[@leesashriber5097]

I absolutely love Criminal Minds. As a retired Forensic Pathologist, it was and is an amazing program. They, of course, have to force themselves to TV guide lines, packing everything into 44 minutes. I miss the original show. Especially Reed. Thank you so much. 😊

[@elysecatmull3404]

Have you watched the revival on Paramount+?

[@michellerindal8836]

I am watching the new season. I know that it's not correctly betrays the real BAU, but it's a good show to watch

[@leesashriber5097]

I tried. I'm freely admitting I like the original. Plus, Reed needs to be back. 😊

[@deborahapostolou8078]

I was always a huge fan of this show.

[@paobango3196]

😮😢. ¥~…-+.

[@rachellara9067]

Don't be too technical about it. This is a TV series and compressing timelines makes sense. This is the same with NCIS, CSI and other procedural series. Also, they do show when they got their profiles wrong. They were not always right. And even though this is fiction, they often reference real life events and people. I love Criminal Minds Evolution. I'm so glad it got picked up for S3.

[@kimgoodwin2711]

When I was on the psyche ward Criminal Minds was the patients’ favorite watch. The staff wasn’t very happy about it. If you watched too many days in a row they made you attend a group meeting even if it was a group that wasn’t for a problem you were dealing with.

[@hboudreaux66]

Bruh 😂😂😂 I woulda been in group 24/7 then lol.... I may be slightly obsessed with this show

[@Jessicab-u7c]

The real BAU is also mostly a desk job not as actively investigating like in the show.

[@briannastultz1468]

It’s a TV show. Just like on CSI, they don’t get DNA results in minutes, but it has to fit into the 45 minute time frame.

[@Chortzy]

soo...everything "wrong" is due to time constraints and the fact that it's a FICTIONAL tv show?

[@krystalk8105]

Exactly … as if they could fit a realistic timeline in an hour show lol… timeline wasn’t worth calling out.

[@Ivyrose4]

Right, if they dragged out their cases to make it more “realistic” then viewers would be more likely to get bored while watching the same case for a long while. All police and government official dramas do this. They all have to do it for the sake of viewership. I think it’s common sense for most viewers that the actual cases would take anywhere from several days to several weeks. I don’t understand why they even bothered to include such a thing. Plus they had to fit in commercials too.

[@Catherine.Dorian.]

@@Ivyrose4they could do it if they basically did like one or to cases a year and spent multiple episodes but it likely would bore people. I like how blue bloods does it, it seems like just two or three days but each family dinner on the show is a Sunday so if you count you know a few weeks pass per episode

[@martakavaliauskaite4566]

​@@Catherine.Dorian.exactly

[@mrsravenrose2u]

Not to mention they always had a serial that the chased the entire season. Sometimes over multiple seasons

[@Ariadne-xy8iw]

Claiming that focusing on extreme crimes when police agencies generally deal with lower profile crimes as being wrong is a stupid point to try and make. Yes most crimes are more mundane but the team on this show works for the FBI and ASSIST with the extreme crimes. No police agency is likely to call the FBI on a basic crime.

[@depressed_firefly]

this when this point came up in the video, I was like "what? Do you think FBI - BAU on top of it, meaning already not your usual FBI squad - spends time investigating idk, shoplifters and stuff?" I believe it was pointed out quite a few times in the series that they cannot just come and investigate anything, even small little crimes, they take cases of more extreme crimes (like serial crimes) or federal cases when state borders are crossed.

[@martakavaliauskaite4566]

​@@depressed_fireflyexactly

[@MetalMama-Mimi523]

What they get right all the time is the variety of uniquely, hot guys & cool, pretty women who can kick ass on the show. Yeah, I'm taking about JJ.

[@shaynahoffman5693]

I love the announcer's voice

[@Bintexas]

Alexa-why do 1 hour long (less commercials) crime dramas not play out in RT? 🤔 Everything is exaggerated for the sake of a compelling story. Is there any evidence that viewers believed this was a documentary?

[@sharonsmalls6846]

Exactly! The timelines of Law & Order, CSI, and Criminal Minds are entertainment, therefore exaggeration.

[@wendygreene]

The fact that they're the ones kicking down the doors and confronting the Unsubs in every episode is hilarious! The show also makes it look like the local police are kissing their feet when they show up, and they would never solve the case without them.

[@undyusami1525]

you know there are episodes where police tries to get rid of them so they can solve it themselves, right?

[@leonardolim8976]

Top ten worst thing the victims/nonvictims have done that cause the unsub to kill (before the killing start or during the killing spree counts 1. Tying Kyle to a pole while hitting his face with a basketball - Austin and his friends (the anti terrorism squad) 2. Taken all the credit for Ellen's work - Sarah Ryan (fate) 3. Shove Ronald James Underwood's head in the toilet - Lance Tate (bully) 4. Failed to punish Lance Tate and his friends - David Morrison (bully) 5. Prank -unnames student - a badge and a gun 6. Unnamed man abducted Tatiana - awake 7. Neglecting desi Gutierrez - desi's mom -'dust and bone 8. Taking Samanthas dolls away - Samanthas dad - the uncanny valley 9. Abuse Kevin decker and his girlfriend - John decker - scarecrow 10. Unknown men raped Sarah danlin and go unpunished - (jones)

[@jeykey7140]

I wonder how many people went to work for the actual BAU because of this show...

[@ROCKONplaceboforever]

My favorite show ever 🔥❤

[@josefk7437]

I got the impression that the biggest thing the show gets wrong is the plane. FBI agents fly coach.

[@lindevoskamp4948]

I mean there are definitely a LOT of serial killers in the show, but don't forget that the BAU travels all over the country to catch them, meaning that each city actually isn't overflowing with serial killers at all since they rarely come back to the same places

[@kleine.5438]

Can you do a version of law & order or NCIS of what they get right and wrong please 🤞?

[@Catherine.Dorian.]

I notice blue bloods deals with the time issue with the family dinners, each one is on Sunday so we know 2-3 weeks pass in an episode even if it seems like 2-3 days

[@samuelcollantes1175]

Happy wednesday morning, Sophia, take care and God bless you. Greetings from Colombia to you as well.

[@grec.]

The first 6 seasons this was the best show. It got weird with some side stories about the profilers' personal struggles.

[@HariSeldon913]

Ellie going rogue was second season IIRC. AJ got pregnant, so JJ had to get pregnant as well.

[@theimpossiblemary]

Season 7 is pretty great, better than season 6. Even though I missed Emily Prentiss, the show was also good in seasons 8 and 9. There are a lot of creative and interesting cases, though I really didn't care about Alex Blake. Then it went completely downhill... JLH never really fit in... maybe it is a controversial opinion but I couldn't care less about Tara Lewis (I also think she doesn't belong), Luke Alvez (they tried so hard into making him Derek Morgan 2.0.), Stephen Walker (he died and I was like 'meh') or Matt Simmons (there is nothing about him even remotely interesting). The loss of Shemar Moore and Thomas Gibson really maimed the show. Like AJ and Paget's absences impacted negatively the season 6, making it the worst of the earlier seasons. And now, without MGG, the evolution is just unwatchable. Dr. Spencer Reid was the soul of the show, like Penelope Garcia is its heart, and Aaron Hotchner was its brain. But Kirsten Vangsness can't hold the boat alone, even with still greats AJ Cook, Paget Brewster and Joe Mantegna.

[@grec.]

@@theimpossiblemary I agree with everything of what you said. I forgot season 6 didn't have AJ and JJ. And I agree season 7 wasn't that bad. But the rest, I've forgotten about. CM will always have a place in my heart. I don't watch many series but I've watched LOST after it finished, Criminal Minds was a good show to be engaged with. I couldn't get enough. CSI Las Vegas was kind of good for a while too. But well. After season 7 of CM, I really stopped watching series all along.

[@grec.]

@@HariSeldon913 Yes, but the show was still good back then. 👍

[@mrsravenrose2u]

Seriously?? 90% of what you say they get wrong (how quick they solve the crime, carrying guns) can be explained because IT IS A TV SHOW!! They always have 40 mins to finish a case. Plus they always had a serial that they hunted the entire season. Especially when you look at the last 2 seasons on Paramount

[@Jessicab-u7c]

Occasionally they hold their firearms correctly.

[@LarryStylinson-tg2cv]

now that i think about it there are way tooo many extreme crimes in the entire series as someone whos not from america i almost thought that "is this how it goes in america spree killings and serial killings everyday?" glad watchmojo proved that its overexaggeration.

[@DanaArmas]

Yes! Matthew Gray gubler he called me beautiful 😍

[@AVR-88]

They actually depicted the use of firearms accurately. Tho, they are well regulated, the training in the proper use of firearms is lacking. Cops pull their weapons for almost anything, illegally or not.

[@YūreiMagnet]

The BAU vs Batman Could they catch him?

[@phatpharm06]

Depends on whose show/movie you are watching.

[@debwilli]

Why does the narrator sound like they’re on half speed?

[@De.de.C]

I sped the video to 1.25x and it still sounds so slow!

[@MyWellnessJourney1]

I'm guessing they don't have a private plane at their disposal

[@Panchew]

I think some of the wrong stuff is valid. Most of the faults I believe would fall on the writer and directors vision of how they think Law enforcement acts vs how they really act or anything in that matter. I.E.: When ever a gun is drawn there always that hammer click sound even if it's a gun without a hammer. It bugs me , but for some reason directors/producers think that if a person does not hear this sound that means the gun is not ready to fire.

[@De.de.C]

The narrator is speaking slowly. Geez!

[@ItsJustCiCi]

Algorithm 👍🏾

[@jenniecockburn8811]

If nyone believes any of this is accurate tthen they're so naive.