Tonight's episode of Criminal Minds has me at a loss of words. First of all, I don't know why I never thought to blog about the show before. It's fantastic and creepy. Just my kind of show.
There was probably more to say about last weeks episode "The Uncanny Valley" but this weeks was just as if not more unsettling. A series of teen suicides occurring at around the same time in a small town in Wyoming has local police baffled and searching for answers. The FBI's BAU (or Behavioral Analysis Unit) investigates at the urging of their liaison J.J. to find that not only are the teens not attempting to kill themselves but are being encouraged by an online "chocking game" that has become a competition between three of the local high schools. Crazy right?
So, in order to raise awareness and try to stop kids from getting involved SSA Morgan and Dr. Reid go to the schools to explain how dangerous participating is. Enter the main suspect (or UnSub to the fancy profilers on the show) Christopher, your not so friendly neighborhood goth kid. Apparently, he started wearing black for his mothers funeral a few years back and never stopped. I have a few choice words to say on this subject but I'll refrain for a later blog I have planned.
Moving on, with Chris in custody Dr. Reid and Morgan attempt to establish a rapport with him only to fail miserably. Best scene in the show happens when the team's tech analyst attempts to connect with Christopher showing a humanity not often displayed on criminal procedural shows. After that everything goes hinky when the kids dad intervenes and gets him outta there. Only after they let him leave to they realize that the father has some serious problems and is in fact *dun dun dun* the killer.
Will they find and be able to reach goth kid Christopher before his dad finally kills him and potentially numerous other kids online?
Honestly there is so much sickness going on with this killer I found myself more terrified at the idea of people like him being plausible than taking interest at the who-done-it fantasy of the show. Munchausen by Proxy, severe child abuse, murder, and a little bit of an narcissistic angel of death complex (the last one is my opinion, not apart of the plot of the show) is a little too much for this girl to handle in just one episode.
The message at the end was a nice summation of whats been going on within the story arch. Using J.J.'s sisters suicide as a way for someone on the team to relate to Hotch's loss of his (ex)wife by the evil Reaper back on the 100th episode (The Happy Thanksgiving, lets murder a mother episode).
Hopefully next week will be less heavy, but who am I kidding? Murder isn't something to be taken lightly.
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