Why now should be the time for Criminal Minds season 13 ratings surge

Is there going to be a Criminal Minds season 13 ratings surge coming up either next week, or after the show returns from the upcoming Winter Olympics? We certainly hope so, given that at the moment it seems as though we’re gearing up for one of the most interesting arcs of the season.

While we weren’t necessarily sure that we needed a repeat of the Spencer Reid arc or something like it, the writers have come up with something interesting courtesy of the investigation into Emily Prentiss. For starters, we’ve already seen one team in the FBI (in the International Response Team) face some extremely-difficult investigations; with that, it makes some sense that it would happen here. Meanwhile, at the same time for bureaucratic reasons this is the sort of thing that almost always seems to happen. Someone turns up and, before long, that said person starts to proclaim that they, for whatever reason, know more about how to run the team than the people who are actually running it.

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Basically, we’ve got the most interesting arc of the season going right now but, unfortunately, the ratings aren’t quite reflecting that. Instead, we’re coming off of the show posting just a 0.9 rating in the 18-49 demographic for its most-recent episode. You can blame in part a different lead-in for that in The Amazing Race, but at the same time the show wasn’t even up against a new Chicago PD.

CarterMatt remains hopeful that a Criminal Minds season 14 will happen just because season 13 isn’t necessarily charting worse than any of the other 10:00 p.m. Eastern shows on CBS — it’s actually faring better than two others in Scorpion and Madam Secretary. Nonetheless, we are at a point in the show’s run where, if you still love Criminal Minds, you need to fight for it. It’s not a show that you can just take for granted because it’s been a significant part of your life for so long. We hope that viewers take to this arc and we get to see some interesting, dynamic story told over the course of it.

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