A full official trailer for the new season of Criminal Minds: Evolution has arrived. Though the new subtitle came when the show was cancelled at CBS and transitioned into becoming a Paramount+ original, the season also operates as season 17 of the flagship show, featuring the return of many original cast members from the show's version of the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) including Paget Brewster, Joe Mantegna, A.J. Cook, Kirsten Vangsness, and Aisha Tyler. Criminal Minds: Evolution season 2 was officially renewed in January and is set to premiere in June.

Paramount+ has unveiled an official trailer for Criminal Minds: Evolution season 2. Check it out below:

Although the video is just over a minute long, it is packed with incident as a killer strikes, prompting the BAU to assume they are an unsub (unknown subject) that may have been trained by the government. As the bodies pile up and the team begins to get desperate, they turn to captive serial killer Elias Voit (Zach Gilford) for assistance.

Elias Voit's Character In Criminal Minds: Evolution Season 2 Explained

Zach Gilford's Criminal Minds Character Has A Past With The BAU

This major expansion on the original Criminal Minds: Evolution season 2 trailer offers the closest look yet at how the story of the new episodes is going to unfold. It seems that the show will be centering once more around the character of Elias, who recurring star Zach Gilford has been playing on every episode of the show since season 1 of the continuation premiered on Paramount+. This seems to indicate an overall interest in keeping the overarching storylines of the Evolution branch of the show consistent with one another.

Since he joined the Criminal Minds cast, Elias Voit has become one of the BAU's greatest enemies. Season 1 followed a series of cases where it became clear that they were linked by a group of serial killers who were controlled by a leader known as Sicarius, who turned out to be Elias. Over the course of ten episodes, the team closed in on Elias, eventually capturing him in the finale, though not without great difficulty.

Now, Criminal Minds: Evolution season 2 is leaning in even more on the central villain. While he is now in the BAU's custody, his usefulness in the current case still makes him a very dangerous opponent. He is now occupying a similar place in the narrative that Hannibal Lecter did in the iconic classic The Silence of the Lambs, and his insidious influence could very well threaten to tear apart the team from the inside.

Source: Paramount+

Criminal Minds: Evolution

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In Criminal Minds: Evolution, the FBI’s elite team of criminal profilers come up against their greatest threat yet, an UnSub who has used the pandemic to build a network of other serial killers. As the world opens back up and the network goes operational, the team must hunt them down, one murder at a time. Original cast members continuing their roles include Joe Mantegna, A.J. Cook, Kirsten Vangsness, Aisha Tyler, Adam Rodriguez and Paget Brewster. Zach Gilford joins the dynamic cast as a recurring guest star in a season-long arc.

Cast

Joe Mantegna , A.J. Cook , Kirsten Vangsness , Aisha Tyler , Adam Rodriguez , Paget Brewster , Zach Gilford

Seasons

2

Streaming Service(s)

Paramount+

Franchise(s)

Criminal Minds

Writers

Erica Messer

Showrunner

Erica Messer

Main Genre

Crime

Creator(s)

Erica Messer

Prequel

Criminal Minds

Where To Watch

Paramount+

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