Oh, this episode is so horrifying. I think one of the saddest parts was the pictures that Charlie took, honestly. He knew that all of the kids may not survive. But the pictures would at least let people know that they had been there and what happened to them. Also, something I'd never really considered was how the parents didn't even have bodies to bury of their kids(the ones who had kids that couldn't be saved). And then Charlie telling the parents of the boy who died at the beginning that he'd been protecting Amy.
@@notthemovie They really did. Matthew Gray Gubler directed this episode, interestingly enough. He also directed one starring Brad Dourif. Also, something sort of different from other episodes as well is that we never really get a clear answer as to why they're doing this. They're just awful people. They're unsubs/bad guys you really didn't feel sorry for at all. Unlike Revelations which is a great episode, but kind of a two parter in that the episode before it, "The Big Game" leads into what happens.
I remember being in 6th grade, in a hotel in Australia, and watching Criminal Minds for the first time……this was my very first episode, and my word does it make an impression.
This show was so unique in that it wasn't formulaic. They tried to make a spin off Criminal Minds in another city, it didn't take. This was as much about the cast as it was about the content. This episode was special because it was the first directed by Matthew Gray Gubler so it isn't filmed in the same way as other episodes.
Criminal minds stands out from other crime shows for me because they have a different approach in a few ways. The one you mentioned was that they also show the criminals side (tho it varies from episode to episode), there's a bunch of episodes based on true cases and events, and the show is talking about the psychology and reasons behind criminals actions a lot, as well as using logic and profiling to solve cases. Of course a lot of it is enhanced and fictional for drama purposes, but it still makes the show very unique and interesting to me.
This was the 3rd episode of CM I ever watched. It was part of a rerun marathon and I was laid up in the hospital (ironically, I was in the maternity ward) watching this. The nurse came during the finale and we both broke down at the "he was alive yesterday?" part. 🥺🥺🥺
actually a lot of times Criminal Minds shows the audience the bad guy. It makes it all the more horrifying because you see what they are doing and how terrifying it is for their victims. But then you see it from the FBI side and what little clues they are left with and it always seems like they will be impossible to catch. Especially since to any normal person their actions are so twisted they seem to make zero sense. Our heroes' job is to find the logic in the behavior to predict the next move and catch the bad guy. It's much more chess-like and a bit darker than most crime shows. But they do a really good job of creating a team of characters you really get invested in
Oddly enough, this was the first Criminal Minds episode I ever saw. I was visiting my parents for the weekend and my mom was watching this episode. Even though I didn't start watching Criminal Minds till 8 years later, and when I saw this episode again I was brought right back to the feeling of horror and sadness in the closing scene.
This episode is pretty much the typical format of the show. So it's good for giving you a sense of what the show is generally like. The other 2 episodes you considered are more standout/unusual (and better, imo). 'Revelations' is about Reid being kidnapped by a killer and the team having to save him. 'Entropy' is pretty much all set in one location where Reid is having dinner with a hitwoman who is threatening to blow up the restaurant.
So Reid is the fan favourite then? I saw a meme of Aubrey Plaza's character saying something like "I'll be out in 20 years. I'll remember your name and you won't remember mine." Which sounds cool, but i feel like he's the kinda guy who would remember, right?
@@notthemovie yeah Reid is definitely the favourite and probably gets the most storylines of being in direct danger. Aubrey Plaza is one of the show's few recurring villains. She basically becomes obsessed with outsmarting Reid. And yeah Reid definitely would never forget anything, especially her.
@@notthemovie Reid's mother has Schizophrenia so he suspects he will also lose his mind sooner or later due to his genetics. That is why he wanted to cure Schizophrenia as a child to save his mother. He also falls in love with his genetecist.
This episode is absolutely heartbreaking. If you ever plan on doing more reactions I definitely agree with the other person in the comments about 'Revelations'. It's heartbreaking not only for the fact that Reid is taken (which still hurts to watch) but because the unsub is also a very sympathetic character. It's something this show does very well. Because you see the unsubs side, you can see that not all of them are just born evil bad guys. A lot of them are people who just aren't very well, it really makes you feel for some of them. Is what they're doing evil? Absolutely. But you can start to understand why they are the way they are. Sorry for the rant haha. Great reaction!
I think the episode where I sympathized with a person the most is the one where Anton Yelchin (RIP) plays the teen who is having fantasies about torturing and killing women and he goes to Reid for help, but in the end he gets the prostitute alone and pulls out a knife and tries to unalive himself because he doesn't want to be a monster. Reid saves his life but he wonders if he's doomed others to die in the future if the kid can't be rehabilitated.
I love criminal minds so much! I know it is kind of popular but I’m sad it’s still not discussed as much as other shows, I’ve watched since I was a kid, when it still was on TV. I’m happy I found your channel, great videos! ❤️
I love the criminal minds series, I can't watch more than a couple at a time. Because the situations and the people feel real; the team and the criminals. After a couple of episodes it makes me feel sad and depressed. But still the best criminal show ever in my opinion.
I had my own similar situation to you actually! I just got out of elementary school for the day and a family friend came and picked me up. She dropped me off at my grandparents' house which was a common place to go to if my parents weren't home. However I didn't know that the family friend didn't tell my mom she was going to pick me up so when my mom came to pick me up after school my friends told her I got into someone's car. Needless to say my mom started freaking out and she didn't have a cell phone back then so she went to my grandparents house. I heard her yell my name as soon as she opened the door and when she saw me she broke down crying. Afterwards we came up with a password for anyone besides my parents would come to pick us up from school.
I totally agree with not watching a show from the beginning because the mystery is part of the fun. My mom hates it when I do but to me, it’s way more interesting and entertaining.
I feel like a lot of people enjoy the later seasons of the show but for me the early ones are the best so going to throw a few recommendations out from them s1e2 Compulsion - A horribly inaccurate portrayal of OCD but before I knew better it was a favourite and the general concept and pay off are great s1e9 Derailed - Probably a highly inaccurate portrayal of schizophrenia but lots of interesting visual and directing choices paired with high stakes team drama and what would be hints that pay off later except you already know what they're alluding to which is the genuine network TV experience (I know because I first saw the end of season 1 randomly late at night and watched from there and then only later saw older episodes when i borrowed my friends' dvds) s1e22 & s2e1 Fisher King part 1&2 - The first episodes I saw, excellent two parter i think is best experienced going in blind s2e12 Profiler, Profiled - Centred on a team member and their backstory this one is just straight up good TV and a story I think is important to tell also Theres more but I don't want to bombard you
I don't agree that this is the best episode of the show, not by a long stretch. Give season 1 episode 14 "Riding the Lightning" a watch. Easily tops any CM episodes you've watched so far.
Oooooh this was Matthew Gray Gubler's directorial debut on the show. Showing the bad guys was something done frequently in later seasons which sometimes worked (which I feel like it did here) but often didn't and made it boring (imo)
This episode is really not that particularly memorable or good to me but i love the whole show so much... Glad to hear you react to this. This was so fun. I really need to sleep lol...
My guy, do you really not understand why they took the kids? What do adults want with little kids that aren't their own? It's usually the worst thing possible, think about it.
Its the fact that they never gave a full profile for this pair of unsubs(like they usually do) and that there is no revelatuon of the why that haunts me to this day and its been YEARS. I wasnt even in middle school yet. Furhermore, and no exaggeration, I always end up letting a tear fall when "He was alive yesterday?" Happens. Its devastating.
Another Criminal minds video: th-cam.com/video/_LNPspnoaz4/w-d-xo.html
Your voice is awesome 😁
@@janaR457 Thank you very much.
“He was alive yesterday?” Is the most painful sentence to me. I cry each and every time I watch this episode.
It's a tough thing to hear. The actor did a fantastic job.
Without watching I immediately know this is Moseley Lane
I don't even need to watch the whole episode. Literally just that clip gets the tears flowing
Video didn't even play advert was on and I saw this comment and new exactly what episode it was. Such an iconic line
That scene was pretty gut-wrenching, when Steven's parents realized that they just missed finding him alive by one day, after all these years.
Oh, this episode is so horrifying. I think one of the saddest parts was the pictures that Charlie took, honestly. He knew that all of the kids may not survive. But the pictures would at least let people know that they had been there and what happened to them. Also, something I'd never really considered was how the parents didn't even have bodies to bury of their kids(the ones who had kids that couldn't be saved). And then Charlie telling the parents of the boy who died at the beginning that he'd been protecting Amy.
Horrific indeed. The kidnapper actors did a great job.
@@notthemovie They really did. Matthew Gray Gubler directed this episode, interestingly enough. He also directed one starring Brad Dourif. Also, something sort of different from other episodes as well is that we never really get a clear answer as to why they're doing this. They're just awful people. They're unsubs/bad guys you really didn't feel sorry for at all. Unlike Revelations which is a great episode, but kind of a two parter in that the episode before it, "The Big Game" leads into what happens.
I remember being in 6th grade, in a hotel in Australia, and watching Criminal Minds for the first time……this was my very first episode, and my word does it make an impression.
Indeed.
This show was so unique in that it wasn't formulaic. They tried to make a spin off Criminal Minds in another city, it didn't take. This was as much about the cast as it was about the content.
This episode was special because it was the first directed by Matthew Gray Gubler so it isn't filmed in the same way as other episodes.
Fun fact! The actor who plays Reid on the show directed this episode!!
Criminal minds stands out from other crime shows for me because they have a different approach in a few ways. The one you mentioned was that they also show the criminals side (tho it varies from episode to episode), there's a bunch of episodes based on true cases and events, and the show is talking about the psychology and reasons behind criminals actions a lot, as well as using logic and profiling to solve cases. Of course a lot of it is enhanced and fictional for drama purposes, but it still makes the show very unique and interesting to me.
This was the 3rd episode of CM I ever watched. It was part of a rerun marathon and I was laid up in the hospital (ironically, I was in the maternity ward) watching this. The nurse came during the finale and we both broke down at the "he was alive yesterday?" part. 🥺🥺🥺
Yeah, that man's delivery was extraordinary. Thanks for sharing.
actually a lot of times Criminal Minds shows the audience the bad guy. It makes it all the more horrifying because you see what they are doing and how terrifying it is for their victims. But then you see it from the FBI side and what little clues they are left with and it always seems like they will be impossible to catch. Especially since to any normal person their actions are so twisted they seem to make zero sense. Our heroes' job is to find the logic in the behavior to predict the next move and catch the bad guy. It's much more chess-like and a bit darker than most crime shows. But they do a really good job of creating a team of characters you really get invested in
“Tell me this episode is not about a kid getting murdered”
…about that
Oddly enough, this was the first Criminal Minds episode I ever saw. I was visiting my parents for the weekend and my mom was watching this episode. Even though I didn't start watching Criminal Minds till 8 years later, and when I saw this episode again I was brought right back to the feeling of horror and sadness in the closing scene.
This episode is pretty much the typical format of the show. So it's good for giving you a sense of what the show is generally like. The other 2 episodes you considered are more standout/unusual (and better, imo). 'Revelations' is about Reid being kidnapped by a killer and the team having to save him. 'Entropy' is pretty much all set in one location where Reid is having dinner with a hitwoman who is threatening to blow up the restaurant.
So Reid is the fan favourite then?
I saw a meme of Aubrey Plaza's character saying something like "I'll be out in 20 years. I'll remember your name and you won't remember mine." Which sounds cool, but i feel like he's the kinda guy who would remember, right?
@@notthemovie yeah Reid is definitely the favourite and probably gets the most storylines of being in direct danger.
Aubrey Plaza is one of the show's few recurring villains. She basically becomes obsessed with outsmarting Reid. And yeah Reid definitely would never forget anything, especially her.
@@notthemovie Reid's mother has Schizophrenia so he suspects he will also lose his mind sooner or later due to his genetics. That is why he wanted to cure Schizophrenia as a child to save his mother. He also falls in love with his genetecist.
@@ishanupadhaya7509 ok, makes more sense now. Thanks.
Agree with this comment 100%.
This episode is absolutely heartbreaking. If you ever plan on doing more reactions I definitely agree with the other person in the comments about 'Revelations'. It's heartbreaking not only for the fact that Reid is taken (which still hurts to watch) but because the unsub is also a very sympathetic character.
It's something this show does very well. Because you see the unsubs side, you can see that not all of them are just born evil bad guys. A lot of them are people who just aren't very well, it really makes you feel for some of them. Is what they're doing evil? Absolutely. But you can start to understand why they are the way they are.
Sorry for the rant haha. Great reaction!
I think the episode where I sympathized with a person the most is the one where Anton Yelchin (RIP) plays the teen who is having fantasies about torturing and killing women and he goes to Reid for help, but in the end he gets the prostitute alone and pulls out a knife and tries to unalive himself because he doesn't want to be a monster. Reid saves his life but he wonders if he's doomed others to die in the future if the kid can't be rehabilitated.
I love criminal minds so much! I know it is kind of popular but I’m sad it’s still not discussed as much as other shows, I’ve watched since I was a kid, when it still was on TV. I’m happy I found your channel, great videos! ❤️
Thanks.
I love the criminal minds series, I can't watch more than a couple at a time. Because the situations and the people feel real; the team and the criminals. After a couple of episodes it makes me feel sad and depressed. But still the best criminal show ever in my opinion.
I had my own similar situation to you actually! I just got out of elementary school for the day and a family friend came and picked me up. She dropped me off at my grandparents' house which was a common place to go to if my parents weren't home. However I didn't know that the family friend didn't tell my mom she was going to pick me up so when my mom came to pick me up after school my friends told her I got into someone's car. Needless to say my mom started freaking out and she didn't have a cell phone back then so she went to my grandparents house. I heard her yell my name as soon as she opened the door and when she saw me she broke down crying. Afterwards we came up with a password for anyone besides my parents would come to pick us up from school.
This episode was gnarly.. I think personally if you were invested in the team then it was the reaper... Where Hailey was killed
This is my comfort show. I can always watch it.
Actually it is normal to see the unsub's side in the episode, though how much changes from episode to episode
Ok, thanks for telling me.
I totally agree with not watching a show from the beginning because the mystery is part of the fun. My mom hates it when I do but to me, it’s way more interesting and entertaining.
Nice to meet a like-minded person.
I've watched this show ever since I was 5.
I feel like a lot of people enjoy the later seasons of the show but for me the early ones are the best so going to throw a few recommendations out from them
s1e2 Compulsion - A horribly inaccurate portrayal of OCD but before I knew better it was a favourite and the general concept and pay off are great
s1e9 Derailed - Probably a highly inaccurate portrayal of schizophrenia but lots of interesting visual and directing choices paired with high stakes team drama and what would be hints that pay off later except you already know what they're alluding to which is the genuine network TV experience (I know because I first saw the end of season 1 randomly late at night and watched from there and then only later saw older episodes when i borrowed my friends' dvds)
s1e22 & s2e1 Fisher King part 1&2 - The first episodes I saw, excellent two parter i think is best experienced going in blind
s2e12 Profiler, Profiled - Centred on a team member and their backstory this one is just straight up good TV and a story I think is important to tell also
Theres more but I don't want to bombard you
I don't agree that this is the best episode of the show, not by a long stretch. Give season 1 episode 14 "Riding the Lightning" a watch. Easily tops any CM episodes you've watched so far.
He played fbi before that swat thing
Yaaayyyy I love criminal minds so much!!!💕💕
Oooooh this was Matthew Gray Gubler's directorial debut on the show.
Showing the bad guys was something done frequently in later seasons which sometimes worked (which I feel like it did here) but often didn't and made it boring (imo)
Nice, good work good work 😂😂😅
Yessss i love criminal minds !
God your voice is amazing
Thank you very much.
This episode is really not that particularly memorable or good to me but i love the whole show so much... Glad to hear you react to this. This was so fun. I really need to sleep lol...
My guy, do you really not understand why they took the kids? What do adults want with little kids that aren't their own? It's usually the worst thing possible, think about it.
That wasn’t the point in this episode. This one was abuu oh t making them their own (I think)
Are you going to do more
One day, probably. Unless copyright issues get in the way.
Its the fact that they never gave a full profile for this pair of unsubs(like they usually do) and that there is no revelatuon of the why that haunts me to this day and its been YEARS. I wasnt even in middle school yet.
Furhermore, and no exaggeration, I always end up letting a tear fall when "He was alive yesterday?" Happens. Its devastating.
It really is.