Profiling Criminal Minds
419 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 14 hours ago - ★★★ - 58 ratingsAn investigation into our obsession with the TV show "Criminal Minds"
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Episodes
Cracker: Mind Over Murder - An American Dream, If Part 1 and 2
July 13, 2023 03:10 - 1 hour - 113 MBThe Spike Lee movie was School Days - early movie and controversial at the time.
Cracker Mind Over Murder: Sons and Lovers, Talk to Me
July 06, 2023 03:10 - 56 minutes - 77.5 MBWe were blown away by how good and how emotional these episodes were.
Cracker: Mind over Murder - Hell Hath No Fury, Tis A Pity She’s a Whore
June 29, 2023 03:10 - 54 minutes - 74.4 MBOne change and Hell Hath No Fury would have been exemplary. They tried to squash a 3 hour story into 46 minutes in the next. Still asking: where's the dog!
Sunday Show - June 25, 2023
June 25, 2023 03:10 - 50 minutes - 69.4 MBDid this way to early! If we had waited until Saturday, this would have been a whole different show.
Cracker: Mind Over Murder: Madwoman, Lemmings Will Fly
June 22, 2023 03:10 - 1 hour - 90.5 MBStill a problem of adaptation. We shall see whether it gets better when they start creating their own stories.
Cracker: Mind Over Murder 101-102: True Romance
June 15, 2023 03:10 - 1 hour - 102 MBWell that was a bust. The big question: Why did they choose to make this the pilot??? Our apologies for the emergency alert and air conditioner background noises - things happen.
PCM Movie Special: Ravenous
June 08, 2023 03:10 - 1 hour - 108 MBCannibals, wendigos and a critique of Manifest Destiny. Honest!!!
Cracker 401: 9-11 (A New Terror)
June 01, 2023 03:10 - 1 hour - 105 MBJimmy McGovern is in top form with this movie. Fitz is still Fitz!
Cracker 304 - White Ghost
May 25, 2023 03:10 - 1 hour - 86 MBThe handover of Hong Kong to China - the lease expired! However, you would barely know that that is what the episode was about.
Cracker 303 - True Romance
May 18, 2023 03:10 - 1 hour - 110 MBFor the first time, we extensively rewrite. This could have been such a good episode but, sadly, we didn't get do it years earlier.
Cracker 302 - Best Boys
May 11, 2023 03:10 - 1 hour - 97.3 MBJust a very sad episode of Cracker. We have some hopes for Paul Abbott as the showrunner, on the upside.
Cracker 301 - Brotherly Love
May 04, 2023 03:10 - 1 hour - 113 MBThe inevitable end of the stories that have been building up since Albee's story. Sad, horrifying and so logical.
Cracker 203 - Men Should Weep
April 27, 2023 03:10 - 1 hour - 110 MBAgain, one more devastating episode of Cracker. Jimmy McGovern is back writing.
Hunters Season 2
April 25, 2023 03:10 - 1 hour - 114 MBNo where as wrenching as the first season, but so satisfying nevertheless. If only we could have had a season in between these two.
Cracker 202: The Big Crunch
April 20, 2023 03:10 - 1 hour - 108 MBOne mess of an episode. Boy, do we miss Jimmy McGovern!
Bonus Episode: Hunters Season 1
April 18, 2023 03:10 - 1 hour - 137 MBWe love this show. It is refreshing to see such moral clarity. We are all over the place in our discussion because there is way too much to talk about. Stayed tuned to Season 2 next Tuesday.
Cracker 201 -To Be a Somebody
April 13, 2023 03:10 - 1 hour - 123 MBA relentless downer but the best 3 episode arc yet!
Cracker 103 - One Day a Lemming Will Fly
April 06, 2023 03:10 - 1 hour - 104 MBWe so wanted a different ending to this episode. A brilliant character study of all the characters, brilliantly-written and so depressing.
Cracker 102: To Say I Love You
March 30, 2023 03:10 - 1 hour - 130 MBEven better than the first episode. And we talk a lot about Cracker's gambling addiction.
Cracker 101 - Mad Woman in the Attic
March 23, 2023 03:10 - 1 hour - 117 MBWe begin "Cracker" with Robbie Coltrane. It's still as good as we remembered it!
Wire in the Blood 604: The Dead Land
March 16, 2023 03:10 - 1 hour - 160 MBWe're back! The finale of Wire in the Blood is a densely-packed episode. We end up talking about parallel universes (TV show vs Books). The TV series gives us some hope for Tony (after some therapy); the books so far will never give us that for Carol and Tony.
PCM: Monday Bonus Episode February 27
February 27, 2023 15:08 - 28 minutes - 39.4 MBWe are going dark for a few weeks. We suggest that you watch "A Spy Among Friends", and other things about the British "twit" class. You can catch-up on past episodes of Profiling Criminal Minds! Don't know when we will be podcasting again, but we will keep you updated.
Criminal Minds Episode 1610 - Dead End
February 11, 2023 00:38 - 1 hour - 113 MBBonus Episode: PCM Interviews Breen Frazier
February 07, 2023 10:10 - 1 hour - 137 MBIf you don't know: Breen Frazier is a Producer, Co-Showrunner and Head Writer for Season 16. He has been with Criminal Minds since Season 4.
Criminal Minds: Evolution 1609: Memento Mori
February 03, 2023 22:29 - 1 hour - 122 MBNot a spoiler but Elias Voit listens to "Profiling Criminal Minds". We exist in the "Criminal Minds" universe. We are so happy!!!!!!!!!!!
Wire in the Blood 603: From the Defeated
February 02, 2023 04:10 - 1 hour - 123 MBAdam and Eve; Michael, the Avenging Angel - but those aren't the most uncomfortable parts of the episode. We may have found out why there wasn't a Season 7!
Criminal Minds: Evolution 1608: Forget Me Knots
January 27, 2023 20:55 - 1 hour - 90.2 MBOne jam-packed episodes with what may be the best cliffhanger yet!
Criminal Minds: Evolution 1607: What Doesn’t Kill Us
January 21, 2023 13:29 - 1 hour - 93.4 MBWe loved this episode,nitpicking aside. However, we are now so worried about Doug and Tyler. Is one of them dead by the end of the 10th episode?
Wire in the Blood 602: Falls the Shadow
January 19, 2023 23:24 - 1 hour - 118 MBA typically horrible case for Tony to solve. However, Dr. Redmond couldn't get the book, The Last Temptation, out of her head while she watched, then tried to discuss, the adaptation.
Criminal Minds: Evolution 1606: True Conviction
January 13, 2023 23:33 - 1 hour - 113 MBThey're alive!!!! We had so much fun with this episode. Sure we had minutiae - just listen to us talk about 2nd Street - loved the callback. We can't wait until next Friday.
PCM Season 16: Our Thoughts on Episodes 1-5
January 12, 2023 21:52 - 44 minutes - 60.6 MBWell they do hold up - even better than the first time. We desperately want to know but we must avoid all social media until tomorrow. It will not be easy.
PCM - Wire in the Blood 601: Unnatural Vices
January 12, 2023 17:27 - 1 hour - 110 MBJust an episode with thoroughly unappealing characters and way too many red herrings. But we had fun, I guess!
Wire in the Blood 505: The Movie
December 29, 2022 04:10 - 1 hour - 128 MBIf John Grisham had written a Wire in the Blood book!
Wire in the Blood 504: Anything You Can Do
December 22, 2022 04:10 - 1 hour - 123 MBFor once we are stumped: "How did Tony's keys get there???"
Criminal Minds: Evolution 1605: Oedipus Wrecks
December 17, 2022 17:18 - 1 hour - 137 MBFor the first time, we are surprised by an episode of Criminal Minds - didn't see it coming!! And we are not talking about the cliffhanger!
Criminal Minds: Evolution 1604: Pay Per View
December 14, 2022 12:54 - 1 hour - 108 MBFinally! It's up! Solid episode, once again. Still had to do one of our "PCM rewrites part of the plot", but, on the whole, we're happy - well, except for the ending.
PCM - Wire in the Blood 503: The Names of Angels
December 08, 2022 14:06 - 1 hour - 143 MBA thoroughly depressing episode matched with a thoroughly depressing Canadian news story!
Criminal Minds Evolution - Episode 3: Moose
December 02, 2022 22:24 - 1 hour - 123 MBWhew! Dan won't have to worry. There are warning signs, but the ending of this episode is dynamite!
Wire in the Blood Episode 502: Nocebo
December 01, 2022 04:10 - 1 hour - 98.4 MBJust couldn't accept the initial premise of the episode, but a good ride nevertheless.
Criminal Minds: Evolution 1602 - Sicarius
November 27, 2022 01:17 - 1 hour - 124 MBEven better than the first episode, Dan now worries that he won't have enough nit-picking to do!
Criminal Minds: Evolution - 1601: Just Getting Started
November 25, 2022 22:16 - 1 hour - 104 MBHell, yes!!!!!!! We love this show - even Dan's need to nit-pick can't get us down. Go read his blog on vardulon.com for more detailed nit-picking.
Wire in the Blood Episode 501
November 24, 2022 04:10 - 58 minutes - 79.9 MBDr. Redmond sobbed her way through this one. Brilliant episode dealing with Munchhausen's by proxy, physical child abuse and sexual child abuse, Stay tuned for our take on Criminal Minds: Evolution over the next couple of days.
Sunday Bonus Episode - Let’s Talk About The Troubling Rise of Antisemitism!
November 20, 2022 16:10 - 1 hour - 85.5 MBWell this is a rant! We cut it out of our Thursday's Wire in the Blood sobfest and posted it separately! We calm down eventually (well, sort of). Stay tuned on Friday (God willing, the creeks don't rise, and work goes smoothly), for our take on the first 2 episodes of Criminal Minds: Evolution. In Canada, on Disney+!
Wire in the Blood Episode 404 - Wounded Surgeon
November 17, 2022 04:10 - 1 hour - 108 MBNext week, everyone, Next Week!!!!!!!!!!
PCM - Wire in the Blood 403 and Talking about the Criminal Minds Trailer!!!
November 10, 2022 04:10 - 1 hour - 115 MBNow 14 days to Criminal Minds: Evolution! We can't wait but we have to!!!
PCM - Wire in the Blood Episode 402
November 03, 2022 15:33 - 1 hour - 87.9 MBWhat a ride "Torment" was. And then there was the end of the first female Doctor!!
PCM - Wire in the Blood 401
October 27, 2022 03:10 - 1 hour - 87.1 MBTurns out that we are very happy with the new DCI, Alex. An awful case this week but at least Tony is (mostly) fine!
PCM - Wire in the Blood Episode 304
October 20, 2022 03:10 - 53 minutes - 73.4 MBDr. Redmond doesn't give an inch on the contrivances in this episode, even as we say good-bye to Carol Jordan. :-( We anticipate meeting the new DCI next week!
Wire in the Blood Episode 303
October 13, 2022 03:10 - 1 hour - 101 MBPosted a week late, but we were busy. And we are so excited that CM is coming back American Thanksgiving weekend!!!
Sunday Bonus: Sheila and Dan Complain About a Bad List!
October 02, 2022 03:10 - 1 hour - 132 MBIt's only a few weeks until Criminal Minds is back. We are so excited!!!!!