Living Dolls

[ladyvyola]

Whoa.

Criminal Minds, a show that knows how to bring the creepy, set a whole new standard in creepy tonight.

Major kudos to the hair/make-up department. Who needs blood when you've got pancake and lipstick?

And the actresses playing this week's victims? Television acting really is all about the eyes.

CM's also always been good about balancing sympathy for UNSUBs programmed by trauma and chemistry with the need to STOP THEM NOW AND SAVE PEOPLE and this UNSUB was possibly the saddest we've ever seen. Like Garcia said, doomed.

Note to the world: Do NOT wave your credentials in front of Dr. Spencer Reid. He will pwn your sorry ass. He's also hot while doing it. ::is shallow::

Comments

[musesfool.livejournal.com]

Heh. I just posted very similarly about Criminal Minds. SO FUCKING CREEPY! EEK! And yet they manage to make the unsub sympathetic even as she's killing people. *shudders*

[ladyvyola.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they've had killers who've depersonalized their victims before, but they made it very clear this time that she's not only incapable of even realizing that they're people but that there's no way of curing her -- her brain is physically damaged and it's all her father's deliberate fault.

As Hardison would say, creeeee-py.

[shetiger.livejournal.com]

So sad. So creepy. And yet again I was crying for an Unsub. Oh, show.

[unhappytriad.livejournal.com]

God, I love that show, which I know only from reruns (just started Season 4).

BTW, fans of CM should totally check out John Douglas's Mindhunter and Into the Darkness, nonfiction works about profiling by a profiler. CM cribbed a lot of their plots from Douglas's real-life cases. (That thing about the guys hunting for people in the woods? Not only did it really happen, the real case was even less plausible.)

[ladyvyola.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've been reading those books (and Ressler, etc) for years. I tend to go, "Oh, they're riffing off the [fill in the blank] case!"

And then I go, "Why, brain? Why? Why do you retain that bit of morbid knowledge instead of something useful, like where you left the keys?"