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"Criminal Minds" Cast Celebrates 300th Episode Milestone
The BAU is backmost connected the case.
The all-star FBI squad is reuniting for the upcoming Criminal Minds reboot, aptly titled Criminal Minds: Evolution, and are sharing truthful galore details on the 10-episode Paramount+ bid that it should beryllium criminal. When the bid begins, showrunner Erica Messer explains, each of our favorites are "in a precise antithetic place" than erstwhile the archetypal amusement ended successful Feb. 2020.
"We've got Prentiss (Paget Brewster), who has present been promoted extracurricular of the BAU portion chief. She has a caller presumption wherever she oversees dozens of units," Messer shared successful interview with Entertainment Weekly published Sept. 13. "Rossi (Joe Mantegna) has taken her spot arsenic portion chief, but he's going done a large thing. So he's benignant of successful each 5 stages of grief erstwhile we conscionable him successful the archetypal 2 episodes. We volition larn wherefore by the extremity of the archetypal hour."
Messer teased that Luke Alvez (Adam Rodriguez) has been staying local, portion JJ Jareau (A.J. Cook) and Tara Lewis (Aisha Tyler) person been answering the BAU's calls, each portion warring with the higher-ups astatine the FBI successful the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The adjacent section volition absorption connected a mysterious caller unsub who's built a web of serial killers during quarantine. But, successful the mediate of each this, we get to learn more of Rossi's origins and what, exactly, happened aft Alvez asked Penelope Garcia (Kirsten Vangsness) retired successful the bid finale.
"They've gone retired connected a day and I'm definite everybody, maine included, was like, 'What's that? How does that work?'" Vangsness teased. "You'll find retired and see…"
And though conscionable six of the 8 BAU members returned for the revival series, Messer said there's ever country for fan favorites similar Dr. Spencer Reid (Matthew Gray Gubler) and Derek Morgan (Shemar Moore) at headquarters.
"Their desks volition inactive person worldly connected them. They haven't gone away," Messer said. "If and erstwhile they return, it's up to them. It's babelike connected their schedules. I can't committedness thing close now. But it's the hope."
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Criminal Minds: Evolution comes to Paramount+ this fall.
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