‘Criminal Minds’ season 10 spoilers: Prepare for a new, ‘fresh’ approach
“Criminal Minds” is clearly going in some new directions throughout their upcoming tenth season, which at least some of this brought on by the arrival of Jennifer Love Hewitt as a new member of the BAU.
With this in mind, it seems safe now to say that you should not expect a whole lot of looking backward when it comes to callbacks, or bringing old unsubs back to the table … at least for now. Speaking to TV Guide, showrunner Erica Messer makes it fairly clear that the writers are “going to be moving on to new, fresh mythologies.” This is something similar in a way to what we are seeing with another show in “Castle” this coming season, which is also trying to rely more on the stories that it can tell now rather than the past.
So what is one of the biggest reasons we see for this? We would cite above all else a desire to continually appeal to new viewers. Callbacks are great here and there, but there are still people discovering “Criminal Minds” via syndication. Not only that, but fans of Hewitt may be watching for the first time, and you want to ensure that they have something that they can follow easily.
An apt comparison here right now would be to do with this show what the Disney Channel is doing right now with “Girl Meets World”: Focusing right now on making the story feel new, but then throwing in callbacks to past events as time goes by. We are sure that there will be references to the past that do surface here on the show over time.
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carrroll m
August 18, 2014 @ 6:00 pm
i like the cast, not a character’s season. Hope they just don’t think CM season 10 is now Jennifer’s show, of JJ/morgan…etc
MCatry
August 18, 2014 @ 1:34 pm
I think the CBS wants a change, and they don’t care if they lose viewers because they think they will be replaced by JHL fans. Despite the fact that I don’t like her at all, nor I ever could stand watching any of her previous shows no matter how hard did I try, that is not my main issue with the show nowadays. As long as Erica Messer and her friends run the show, the quality of the stories won’t pick up from the basement it’s been since season seven. That team of writers/producers/selfies-posters only write stuff about romance, spies, empowered women (and not in a smart way) and children (deceased children, alive children, projected children, whatever). Season after season this shows becomes more and more soapy, so if you think about it, in their train of thoughts, it makes sense that they hired JHL. In the meantime, cases are solved by Garcia’s magic computers, enforcement members of local divisions could easily be replaced by cardboard, and action has took over smart people deducing criminal’s identities through behaviour analysis. This show was once about a team of FBI agents that had brains, and relied on them instead of relying on their ability to shot criminals down, kick doors and drive SUVs madly around the streets and roads of America. And ever since season seven that have been changing. In that scheme, the Alex Blake character was doomed since the very first scene: in this ‘messer-version’ of the show there is no place for older, highly educated women. Just for young ones, who can be spies ‘alla Nikita’, superb at taking care of young children despite they spend many days away from DC every single month, and that they just got their profiler’s qualifications and take over every other agent that has been around at least a decade.
So in the end, it doesn’t matter if they hired JHL, Vanessa Redgrave or one of the Kardashians. The new character will probably be as flashy as cliche, and no actress can save that from being boring. And the new criminal minds audience will be composed by the JHL fans, viewers that for some reason love the other members of the cast, and a bunch of old fans that still hope for good stories about criminal minds.
carrroll m
August 18, 2014 @ 5:57 pm
I agree i don’t like Jennifer but Garcia is my favorite character
tannerose5
August 18, 2014 @ 11:47 am
We, the viewers, have been clambering for Reid to have a girlfriend that lives longer than 2-3 episodes.. You didn’t listen. Not so much the JJ and Morgan show, but an ensemble show. You didn’t listen. Why should this season be any different? I would love to be proven wrong.
DixieLee
August 18, 2014 @ 12:46 pm
I couldn’t have said it better myself. I would just like to add one more thing to the “wish list”: Please, please, please get rid of Beth Clemmons (disastrous). Leave Bellamy Young on Scandal where she has great chemistry with the cast and not on Criminal Minds where she has none.