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Love/Hate Epsiodes...

Season 3 & Below Spoilers

Which episode do you both love and hate?

On another rewatch, realised how many episodes I dislike at the end of S3 and jumped ahead to Lo Fi. Realised JJ/Will has been revealed so jumped back to Damaged which I had avoided because of the Rossi/kids/carnie storyline 🥱

DID NOT REMEMBER that this is also the episode with Chester Hardwick! So many great moments in this storyline, one of my absolute favourites.

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u/Relevant_Increase394 avatar

I wish Chester actually tried something to be honest would’ve been fun to see

u/NaryaGenesis avatar

You and me both

Ooh yes it would have been🙈

God whats wrong with us😹

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u/LordCoke-16 avatar

Damaged is one of my favourite episodes. The Rossi subplot is a little meh but it's got great team moments. Plus I feel like they need to do more episodes where team members have different storylines.

u/thewickedking avatar

Yes this is all true!

And it also features Maggie from the Nanny 🤣

This episode has my second favourite Hotch/Reid interaction after Revelations

u/LordCoke-16 avatar

What about LDSK. They have some really good interactions in that episode as well.

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Of course. My late night brain forgot. LDSK is the best. I love their relationship actually, it doesn't get enough credit.

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Also love Hotch telling him off a couple of episodes later in Elephants Memory when Reid is going off at the local PD.

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This clip should be marked NSFW

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🤣 🔥

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The mosley lane episode is both love and hate bc im extremely sensitive to cases abt kids, especially when they are being abused and then killed😭

Also the one abt the two black killers who killed in order to make a point abt racism in the health system regarding arrival time of the Ambulance and such

Idk I get the message and the anger, being black myself and having lived in the US, I indirectly was also affected by this possibly in some way. I just hate that the unsubs were so randomly vicious against civilians. Like I just don‘t think anyone took their issue seriously bc of this, not even the CM team despite hearing abt it from them face to face

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I'm trying to recall this episode but I can't. I will keep searching.

Moseley Lane is one I avoided for a long time, but now I do rewatch. Definitely fits the love/hate for me. So heartbreaking. 😞

If I'm correct, y'all are talking about S14E07, where the two unsubs are brothers who are trying to make a point about ambulance response times in wealthy vs poorer boroughs of NYC

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That's why. I haven't seen past the end of S11

Wasn’t it DC, not NYC?

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And "What I want, I'm not gonna get" 💔

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The episode where Agent Seaver is introduced really doesn’t do it for me. ‘My dad was a serial killer who didn’t let me have a dog so the unsub won’t have a dog either’ tell me why that conclusion annoyed me so much. I get they were trying her on for size with the team but it just wasn’t a fit.

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Weird episode for sure. They could have executed Seaver and her backstory much better.

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Yea like if they’d have mentioned her father a few times to just ease us in like in one of the many prison episodes or talked about how they do outside consults I may have been a bit warmed up to it. I just think the whole thing was a bit flat and lacklustre.

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Totally agree, it was very abrupt

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I'm also realised the duality of the unsubs in this episode with the two seemingly random storylines in one ep .... need to unpack this further in my mind. Thoughts anyone?

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I can't figure out how to edit my post but I have to correct my own ridiculous comment from the OP: I'm not sure why I said I dislike so many eps in S3 😂 I got put off by Children of the Dark (the home invaders with the dead cat ruse 😩)and then didn't have the fortitude to watch Lucky and overreacted.

This season is actually full of corkers - Seven Seconds, Elephants Memory, the one with Wills return in Florida, Tabula Rasa!, True Knight 💔💔💔