Salon TV Critic Trashes New CBS Procedural
Reading the pop culture musings and reviews of Salon TV critic Matt Zoller Seitz is always a pleasure. This week, he goes to town on the mid-season CBS offering Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior, calling it a new low for the Eye Network’s “crime time” line-up.
Seitz wonders right off the bat if the same contractor builds all the serial killer lairs shown on CBS’ unending stream of procedurals, and if so, whether there are bulk discounts. He laughs off the ridiculous dialogue spouted by Forest Whitaker’s sidekick Janeane Garofalo and ponders yet another lazy element of this week’s debut:
The episode’s fixation on cliched signifiers of “childhood innocence” feels nearly as creepy as the perp’s assaults.
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