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How does Criminal Minds portray the mind of a killer?
Killeen Early College High School
Ruby M. Castillo
How does Criminal Minds portray the mind of a killer?
Criminal minds, a show about FBI’s BAU team. They catch killers, rapist and many others. This show, shows how in the real-world killers are, just by things on the news, and what the killer tells the police themselves. Sometimes though this show can get a little carried away with episodes based on some killers and sometimes it can cost the show their ratings.
Criminal minds, for many reasons has been accused of pushing the limit on the violent depictions, which sometimes takes place in the real world. They make what comes on the news on the regular daytime television entertainment into fictional versions. Which, goes too far. One of the actors from the beginning of the show decided to leave, because of how in depth the writers wanted the episodes which were a little too much for a show.
Criminal Minds has been a show on for many years, even now. With the BAU team trying to catch killers and profile them, it gets hard. Some episodes are based off of real criminals, they take what they did and add their own to it, but sometimes those extra things they add on, can cost the writers their show. On episodes, they show woman and children getting killed, raped and even tortured. On the news not even do they show that much evidence. Even then, they turn what they see on the television into their own. This is why the actor that played Gideon on the show, decided to leave for how the writers were writing the scripts. He said, “biggest public mistake”, not knowing what he was gett...
