Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior
CBS | Release Date: February 16, 2011
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
42
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 24 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
13
Negative:
7
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
Chicago Sun-TimesPaige WiserFeb 16, 2011
Season 1 Review: Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior is a solid addition to your evening lineup. Read full review
75
People WeeklyTom GliattoFeb 15, 2011
Season 1 Review: [Forest Whitaker as Sam Cooper is] an arresting, oblique performance, and it works well amid all the procedural muck. [21 Feb 2011, p.42]
70
Zap2it (Inside the Box)Jethro NededogFeb 18, 2011
Season 1 Review: We think if you are a fan of this franchise, then "Suspect Behavior" should please you. Read full review
67
NewsdayVerne GayFeb 15, 2011
Season 1 Review: Competent spinoff, but the formula tends to wear like a straitjacket on Whitaker. Read full review
50
Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen GrayFeb 16, 2011
Season 1 Review: If you don't care for Criminal Minds, Whitaker, Garofalo and company probably aren't going to be enough of a reason for you to tune in. Their characters may get to be interesting from time to time, but the crime's always going to be the main focus. Read full review
50
The Huffington PostMaureen RyanFeb 16, 2011
Season 1 Review: [Whitaker's] charisma gives Suspect a strong center and his line delivery is consistently interesting. If the original 'Minds' is one of your favorite shows, there's no reason not to give this drama a shot. Read full review
50
Boston HeraldMark A. PerigardFeb 16, 2011
Season 1 Review: The story reflects how badly these procedurals have degraded over the years, forced to come up with increasingly more over-the-top motives for murder. If cookie-cutter cruelty is your nightcap, this show will send you well off to sleep. Read full review
50
PopMattersCynthia FuchsFeb 16, 2011
Season 1 Review: You might be thankful that Sam has explained his job, with so many un-blocked metaphors, if you've never seen a show like Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior before. But because you've seen too many shows like this and too many teams like his, you're unimpressed. You're already too many steps ahead. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleDavid WiegandFeb 16, 2011
Season 1 Review: It's all pretty average and watchable largely because of the cast. Read full review
50
The New York TimesAlessandra StanleyFeb 15, 2011
Season 1 Review: Suspect Behavior is not boring, but it is familiar. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyKen TuckerFeb 15, 2011
Season 1 Review: The premiere benefits from the bad guy being played by Raphael Sbarge, a fine actor. But largely it's the usual Minds: a sadistic, terrorized-prey procedural. [18 Feb 2011, p.72]
40
Wall Street JournalDorothy RabinowitzMar 4, 2011
Season 1 Review: Less successful in the spinoff is what comes in between--the texture and character parts, the scripts heavy with pronouncements of the obvious and with horror plots whose strained premises are so elaborate they undercut the impact of all the gore and terror. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesMary McNamaraFeb 16, 2011
Season 1 Review: Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior has the same rapid pace of the original, a narrative tool that both amps up the action and keeps the viewer from dwelling too much on the gargantuan leaps of imagination that pass for police work. It also works against the show, preventing it from fully making the insightful points it does have. Read full review
40
TV Guide MagazineMatt RoushFeb 16, 2011
Season 1 Review: It's business as usual on Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior, an uninspired spin-off of the undistinguished (except in its degree of gruesomeness) long-running hit. Read full review
40
VarietyBrian LowryFeb 16, 2011
Season 1 Review: Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior, a by-the-numbers extension of another Eye network franchise. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsDavid HinckleyFeb 15, 2011
Season 1 Review: Sadly, the game on CM:SB feels too often like we've seen it before and we know what's coming. Read full review
40
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob OwenFeb 14, 2011
Season 1 Review: As anyone who has used an old photocopy machine knows, a copy of a copy of a copy is rarely as good as the original. Suspect Behavior comes across as a show in search of a purpose beyond the obvious brand extension. Read full review
30
HitfixAlan SepinwallFeb 15, 2011
Season 1 Review: I will only say that Suspect Behavior is basically the same show, but other than Whitaker, it's a much less interesting cast and collection of characters, with Garofalo particularly bad. Read full review
25
New York PostLinda StasiFeb 16, 2011
Season 1 Review: OK, not every TV procedural is dumb, but Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior? Dumb is too smart a word. Read full review
25
Uncle BarkyEd BarkFeb 15, 2011
Season 1 Review: Suspect Behavior is in every way a grind, with even the usually very capable Whitaker looking lost at sea with his halting, stumbling, keep-pausing-for-effect portrayal of crime team head Sam "Coop" Cooper. Read full review
25
USA TodayRobert BiancoFeb 15, 2011
Season 1 Review: That Suspect is a spinoff of Criminal Minds, network TV's worst series, is just the dung icing on the dirt cake. Read full review
20
Philadelphia InquirerJonathan StormFeb 16, 2011
Season 1 Review: The sooner this kind of programming goes down the drain, the sooner we'll have a chance to see more original, entertaining, and far less disgusting series, like Blue Bloods and The Defenders. Read full review
10
Miami HeraldGlenn GarvinFeb 14, 2011
Season 1 Review: It is uniquely stupid, profoundly stupid, an ecstatic nirvana of stupidity, a stupidity that defies all previous boundaries of time and space. Read full review
0
SalonMatt Zoller SeitzFeb 16, 2011
Season 1 Review: Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior is so silly, cynical and inept that its overqualified cast can't even save it--though Whitaker and Schiff refuse to admit defeat. Read full review
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