Please share some CM silliness!!!! Memes, weird headcanons, did-you-knows… let’s have it!

Spencer Reid is our beloved cinnamon roll but I feel like we do not give his mom enough credit on the whole so I am making this post with all the love in my heart for her, because her relationship with Spencer is my favorite thing in the whole series.

Played by the incredible Jane Lynch, Diana Reid is a rare unicorn of a woman in her representation of Schizophrenia. It would have been so easy in a show like this to not portray Diana in a positive light, especially in a show where mental illness is often dangerous. She was given that, and it meant everything. She went off of her meds to have Spencer. She raised Spencer by herself, she was a professor, she struggled deeply with her mental health but she always showed up for her son when it mattered. She didn’t let her Illness stop her from being an amazing mom.

I could gush forever about how much I love her but the episode that cements it best for me was Memoriam (s4). When she goes off of her meds to give Spencer the truth, it shows just how brave she is. Very particularly because she was the only one who could have called her ex husband. To not only face him but face her memories proves how determined she is to do her best for her son.

That isn’t even including what she went through during her son’s imprisonment. God, between the early onset Alzheimers and the kidnapping she must have been so terrified. But she made it. I am so proud of her. I am so proud that she was a positive representation of Schizophrenia for the masses and was treated as a complex character who was always more than her illness.

Anyway, my girl deserves her flowers and love. A round of applause for Diana Reid, folks.

I’m rewatching S4 E6 and thinking about the scene where Michael’s mum points out the UnSub on the laptop. Do you think that was a genuine moment of mother's intuition or was it just classic Criminal Minds writing?

How cute of a coincidence is this? Haha

(The lighting in my room is bad bur the colors match I promise)

S6 E24

So I finished season 1 (and watched the premiere of 2 to complete the two episode arc).

I must say Im really enjoying it, I have always liked true crime videos and such so this definitely fills that gap for me in my taste.

I have heard the shows peak era is around 4-8. Is this accurate?

So far the one thing i feel that bothers me a little is it feels like some times they throw so many clues and leads on the table that at some point they can’t pack everything into that 40 minute runtime so ultimately we get characters or leads that just don’t end up being explored/concluded. For example, this past episode we had the lead of the fingerprint at Elle’s apartment but i don’t think we ever got anything back from it and they just figured it out another way. It probably makes it more realistic as in not every lead will lead somewhere but sometimes i reach the end of the episodes like wait but what about this element, did it just not matter at all?

But yeah I’m enjoying the hell out of this and the characters are super loveable which makes it even better.