Origins Month comes to a finish with "Charm & Harm", an episode with suspicious similarities to the Season 14 episode "Chameleon". Would Criminal Minds be so callow as to rip themselves off? This isn't the venue to speculate, but yes. The serial killer drowns women and then switches his identity, from real estate guy to pilot to nerd with a limp. He's unstoppable! Except the authorities already know who he is. The BAU is there to crack the question "describe in single words, only the good things that come into your mind about your mother". Exciting, isn't it?
In this week's podcast, Ronnie and Jazz discuss Season 1 'gem' "The Tribe", and we're only being half-sarcastic with the gem appellation. This really is one of the best Criminal Minds hours. Why? John Blackwolf. He's the Batman of Criminal Minds, at least according to Ronnie. As the profilers seek to solve some murders seemingly committed by Native Americans, the hosts dissect the stupid Hotch personal drama, posit a new name and gimmick for Reid and again wish they were watching an episode of Justified.
Origins Month enters its second week as Ronnie and Jazz try to do anything but discuss "Derailed", aka the train episode. More a hostage negotiation than an exciting adventure on the rails, "Derailed" is an attempt at an Elle episode that goes sideways when the writers realize they have nothing to say about a woman. They then move onto Reid and it becomes a funnier episode of Big Bang Theory. The episode has some character actors of note and the hosts discuss perhaps the most fruitful possible spinoff yet: Criminal Minds: Incels.
September means Deliver The Profile is doing Origins Month, aka a month of covering Season 1 of Criminal Minds. "Won't Get Fooled Again" is the third ever episode of the series and it goes so far as to resolve the trauma that set up Mandy Patinkin's character in the first place. We're dealing with a bomber this time, so that means jokes about Seinfeld's fitted hat day and a digression about Michael Morbius. Okay, maybe Morbius and bombers have nothing to do with each other, but they're both in this episode of Deliver The Profile!