Criminal Minds

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Ok, I'm many many years behind here, but have only recently discovered Criminal Minds.

I've been watching it on Sky Living and am really rather enjoying it :)

However, I wondered if someone could tell me what 'un sub' is short for? I'm sure it's a stupid question but if I can't use the anonymity of t'interweb to educate myself in such matters....

Thanks

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Criminal Minds is ace but oh god I love Spencer Reid the most

Ah thank you!

Oh so obvious when you know the answer .

I do love Spencer too, but I get distracted by Hotch being so grumpy when really he's Greg from Dharma and Greg

You'll become an addict like me

Dr Reid is just tooo adorable and I love the banter between him and Morgan!
I want to be Garcia, she rocks!

I did that

Discovered Criminal Minds and Spencer Reid half way though Season 5 and caught up the entire back episodes in 6 weeks... I was very nervous of transit vans and random people for a good while afterwards (you can over do it apparently)

I'm hooked on this too. It hasn't been quite the same for me though since Mandy Patinkin left, to me, he brought some paternal warmth to the show instead of just clinical assessments/observations etc

Hmmm I'm half way through season 2 but apparently my series link does 'one, two, miss a few.....' so I'm watching Spencer having flashbacks to obv having been abducted but I've missed the episode in question.

I wonder if I could sue Sky for the cost of the box sets?

£42 for S1-5 at CEX, and you can buy online (I love this shop although I normally go to my local branch)

Living repeats do miss out a few that they think are particularly gruesome or upsetting.

Gideon was great. I did love his 'fatherly' protection of Reid.

I enjoy this as well. Was a bit creeped out by Fridays episode though (with the devil). I think it was just Robert Englunds presence on the show that gave me the heeby jeebies.

And up until just now, I always thought they were saying "onsub" . Thought it was some American terminology.

Friday's was excellent, very creepy indeed... Freddie and Drusilla being in it definitely helped!

Matthew Grey Gubler (Reid) directed that one apparently.

Goob has directed a few. I'll see if I can find what episodes.

I've loved seeing Reid evolve from a geeky, socially awkward, walking encyclopaedia to a charming, intelligent man.

Right. According to IMDb, MGG has directed 3 episodes so far.

Season 5 episode 16 -Mosley Lane
Season 6 episode 18- Lauren
Season 7 episode 19- Heathridge Manor

I love Spencer so much that Simon is my favourite chipmunk just because MGG does his voice

Well, wouldn't you know it - I'm just watching an episode because I'm an addict and in the first 5 mins they say what un-sub means. I should have been more patient.....

And it turns out to be the two parter where Spencer gets tortured! Hey ho!

I love this! I have it on Sky+ and catch up when the DDs sleep.

Absolutely agree about Spencer, I adore him. And miss Gideon.

I sobbed when the Reaper episodes finished and Hotch was talking to his ex-wife.

I seem to be watching episodes I've seen before now though. It's like Living just repeat Seasons 4 & 5.

Maybe I need the boxsets...

Is it really really wrong to say that that two-parter is my absolute favourite?

And it's on now? On Living?

What channel are you watching? It's not that one on here

I love this too :) I do think inigo montoya Mandy Patinkin leaves a big hole, he was very much looked up to/turned to, and nobody's really stepped into the same role.
I really enjoyed the episodes directed by Matthew Grey Gubler- very gothic and creepy!

The Tobias Hankel episodes??

I think that happening to Reid sort of pushed Gideon's decision to leave. That he couldn't/didn't protect him.

Yes, those ones

I haven't quite forgiven Gideon for abandoning Reid leaving the way he did, but as Mandy Patinkin wanted to go I guess they worked it the only way they could.

I like this too. Have watched some episodes but woul love to see it all.

I read that Mandy Patinkin didn't realise how gory Criminal Minds was going to be when he signed up for it and asked to leave after two seasons. This explains the rather hasty way he was written out.

It's still really good, but he has left a hole that hasn't been filled. I felt he was a great counter balance to Hotchs' seriousness and cold professional detachment. Does anyone remember the episode where Inigo :o Gideon was interviewing the woman on death row? I won't go into detail and ruin it but what a tear jerker and he was wonderful, as was the actress who played the woman

Ah MrsDmitri - sorry to get your hopes up . I have about 50 odd episodes backed up on the sky planner that I'm working my way through, after I once stumbled across it and thought 'I wonder what Greg from D&G is doing there' and getting hooked in by it!

Sorry!

No worries. I'll come across it again some time